Hey guys I'm from Zimbabwe. Pliz can anyone kindly respond to this...starting to learn how to code as a beginner when did u start to realise that code is now in your nervous system or you have grasped much of the concepts compared to how you were at the beginning and probably at expert level..wishing you well folks..

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@12bitfloat yes i do

It took some years.

@Oktokolo thanx

When I was just a wee pimpled face schoolboy I spent an hour or so copying and pasting the same six lines of code in a script for an school assignment.
Then a friend finally saw that and said, "hey, you can define a command". I said "I can what a what?" to what he replied, "yeah, it's like making up a new word, you just..."
He didn't even finished talking and I got what he meant and started typing and typing until the keyboard started burning off.
I guess that was my breakthrough into coding :)

@JsonBoa 😃😃thanx a lot. I think am gonna kick start with that one. Practice practice....🙏

never.

i keep struggling the same way as i did when i was learning QBASIC as a 10 year old.

the difference is that now i'm struggling that way when trying to figure out how to write an AI or an procedural level generation for a horror game, or some module that plugs into three databases and two external services.

but i feel like i don't know what i'm doing all the same.

the only times when i feel like "okay, yeah, i might actually kinda sorta understand things a little bit" is when i teach some newbies some newbie stuff.

so maybe a more optimistic way to say it would be:

when you start feeling that code is now in your nervous system, you've outgrown the problem(s) you're working on, and you need to find more interesting/challenging problems.

@Midnight-shcode 🤠wow! Sure i get you. This is so intresting to hear and very encouraging. Thanx for the positive vibes 🙂🙏

6 months for it to click. Another year to really sink in.

@Crost thanx a lot!

Started coding 10 years ago. maybe I got used to coding pretty soon like in a year. but great engineering skills like composing abstract structures for bigger apps considering scaling, robustness and etc require a load of experience years.