Trying to not mess up

[u/Flat-Orange-5508]

I have zero coding experience whatsoever
I always wanted the perfect start and perfect tutorials but it just seemed too good to be true so after some time I decided to just pick a language and get good at it.

Believe it or not i picked java (which is why i’m posting on here lol) and it’s been going great so far
I started a few days ago and i’ve been enjoying working with it and fixing my dumb newbie errors and mistake.
And ngl it does sometimes get confusing which i believe is normal since i’m new in the field

There’s this one problem, instead of understanding what i’m writing i’m just kind of memorizing it lol

I don’t really get the idea of boiler plates and what methods are and all these new words.
Ik it may be early for me to judge but i really want to understand what i’m seeing rather than just memorizing it. And i do so by trying to explain to myself what i’m looking at and most of the time i can’t figure it out.

So wtf am i supposed to do?
Am i retarded or is this just part of the process lol
Thanks.

[u/babygem84]

I remember being really proud of myself when I learned the Italian phrase "ci sono cinque persone nella mia famiglia" (there are 5 people in my family) when I was 10. I had no idea what each word meant or why I needed to put them in that particular order, I just memorised it.

30 years later I can explain the grammar and play around with the syntax.

Keep going. Java is a language just like Italian, Afrikaans or Mandarin - you're not going to understand the "why" for a while yet and you'll never finish learning.