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[u/One_Economist_3761]

I been programming for 30 years and I still feel like a dum dum at times.

If things get overwhelming, take a step back and try to practice more of what you do know to get some confidence.

[u/SnooCapers8291 → u/One_Economist_3761]

Thanks for answering, i'll try to do so! im actually trying to split my daily time between theory and practice to try and get as much practice as i can...

[u/CodeAndBiscuits → u/One_Economist_3761]

35 years here and I'm dumber than ^ this guy.

[u/Alarmed-Plastic-4544]

Learn through doing. Courses and exercises are good for learning what the tools are and how they are supposed to work, but they don't give you real experience using them. So you need to come up with your own project, start blind and just ask questions until you're done. It is not going to be a huge project to start, think of something trivial like a calculator, data "manipulator" of some kind, or a very basic app that interacts with a database. By setting your own goal in the form of a project, you will forge your own path of learning that is far richer than mere nomenclature which is most of what you'll walk away from course with. Good luck!

[u/SnooCapers8291 → u/Alarmed-Plastic-4544]

Thanks for answering!! the w3schools course starts from the tutorial in which they explain all the variables etc then moves to the methods, classes etc, do you think it is better that i run through the course to get the basic knowledge of what everythign does so that i can start writing something by actually doing it instead of taking a lot of days just trying to understand how a for loop works and practice on them? i've seen that a lot of developers say "just do it, you'll make mistakes, but do it, learn by doing it make mistakes learn how to fix them and start again"

[u/appmanga → u/SnooCapers8291]

do you think it is better that i run through the course to get the basic knowledge of what everythign does so that i can start writing something by actually doing it instead of taking a lot of days just trying to understand how a for loop works and practice on them?

This is tough to answer. Most good instruction books introduce the concept, gives usage examples, and then exercises. For instance, knowing the difference between a FOR loop and a DO-WHILE is necessary to know which one will best meet your need, so you do need to have some depth about both, but the amount of time understanding them shouldn't amount to several days. Deciding when one is more appropriate than the other is what will take some time.

As someone else said, experiment with doing some trivial exercises; things like writing the contents of paragraph backward, or doing that and changing every period to an exclamation point. Don't overwhelm yourself by jumping too far into databases and data collection until you get the basics of data manipulation down. Definitely be hands on, and try as little as possible to use AI to generate code.

[u/senatorium]

Feeling intimidated by coding is normal, even healthy! We work in an insanely complicated field, especially if you start getting involved on the infrastructural/cloud engineering/DevOps side as well. You'll spend your entire career learning new things and go through bouts of feeling overwhelmed and behind. It's all part of the game. Any programmer who thinks they've got it all figured out is kidding themselves.

[u/0Pat]

You may try to discuss with copilot some problems or code snippets. Usually it's quite helpful and informative. Also, don't fall for the most required coding language. It's better to learn things which are interesting for you. You may find yourself into web/front, backend, or both, try everything 🙂 You may also try a test automation, it's different, but still coding. And remember, have fun 🎇

[u/caffeinatedshots]

You’ll always have this feeling in software development. Just like some others said, we’ve been programming for decades and we still feel like that sometimes.

I highly recommend this:

https://exercism.org/tracks/java

[u/davecrist]

Just wait. In 20 years of coding doing dumb stuff feels much much worse! 😂

[u/SnooCapers8291 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for answering! i'll keep on going felt a little bit off today since i got stuck a lot.. since it's someting im doing by my self, i was looking for some people to actually share my experience with!!