I'm on my 3rd year of my programming course and I still feel like I know jack shit about coding is this normal...

I'm on my 3rd year of my programming course and I still feel like I know jack shit about coding is this normal? I honestly dont know how I made it this far I cant code anything beyond simple things without having to look up help or tutorials or go back over notes i feel like even if i do manage to finish the course (4 year) its going to be useless cause i cant remember shit

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I'm very much a beginner but... entry level programming job is being good at googling things.
Just know concepts well enough to look them up and you'll be fine i.e. data structures, algo, oop
T. 3 yrs work experience

If you need to copy stackoverflow answers that's bad. If you need to look at the documentation for the language / library / tool that's normal and encouraged.

i dont need to blatantly copy the answers but i would say i rely on them for syntax

Codemonkeys are all failed math majors

Practice everyday with one of those learning ide apps on android or iphone. I do it on the subway on my way back home. Just keep practicing, just dont go mad like terry and become one with god.

Try to figure that out from reading documentation instead next time. That's how the dudes who wrote those stackoverflow answers figured it out. It'll probably stick better that way and you'll understand things on a real conceptual basis better.

I think a lot of comp sci teachers accidentally scare students into thinking you should be able to just pump out great code thoughtlessly and effortlessly. If that's the case then you're either writing very simple projects or you're writing code that's similar to code you've written before. In reality a good developer SHOULD be consulting official documentation whenever he's unsure or wants to verify what the proper way to do something is and that way everyone's following the same best practices.

This sounds about right

>programming course
a real chad learns programming without a fucking money sink course that makes you learn at a snails pace.

>b-but you need the degree to get a job with code
lmao

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Why was Terry so based?

it takes so much courage to say nigger on the internet

Nigger

Write an insertion sort, then write it again, then write it again, till you really understand what the fuck is going on. If you can do this, you'll be ahead of like 75% of your competition.

I wish I was as strong as you

My daughter is so cute! I want to hold her and cuddle her until she stops crying then cuddle her more!

What is the most redpilled code?

Don't do this. You'll waste a lot of time.
Write it once and look over it until you understand it.

>You'll waste a lot of time.
it's 20 lines of code you fucking brainlet

Yeah if you use some retard zero iq language like python or jython

in any language
do you even know what insertion sort is?

Its a data structure

You have to be 18 to post here kid, go back to your circle jerk of retardation on reddit.

im pretty sure that post was sarcastic

don't feel bad, it took me 100 years to get good

you're gay

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Depends on what you're trying to do, but for a brainlet like me, insertion sort is a nice introduction to algorithmic thinking, which I helps me understand more advanced algorithms.

Or yeah, listen to this user, whatever helps you understand it.

He said the nigger word that's very based and redpilled

Even Terry went to college for an EE degree.

>people like OP will get a job upon graduation thanks to a piece of paper
>self-taught won't even get past HR
It's not fair.

just so you know the rest of us clearly see you're faggot

Programming is a life long study. John Carmack is only now learning about functional programming for example.

Everybody need to at documentation and stuff if that's what you're talking about.

How else are you going to learn if you don't first look for it? Whenever you work with something new you search it up, memorizing comes with experience.

>copying from stackoveflow is bad hurr durr
>t. student
That's not how it works, they are not interchangeable, you are supposed to use both, according to the situation.
If you think I should learn the library I am using inside out instead of just searching for the answer you're delusional. It's called abstraction, better use it.

>syntax
That's bad, you should've know the syntax by now. Exercise more.

You're not actually memorizing the code, you're learning how to use the tools to build a solution to a problem, think of it like engineering. As long as you can map out a way to go from point A to point B you're fine even if you have to google the majority of your solution.

>If you need to copy stackoverflow answers that's bad.
Fuck.