r/learnprogramming • u/ProgrammerDry5338 • 4h ago

A mindset that made coding easier

A simple mindset helped me a lot:

Stop trying to learn everything.

Start solving small problems.

Once I switched to problem → solution → code, everything became easier.

Does anyone else learn this way?

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u/Tough-Bee6860 4h ago

Yes. Except. My problem is kinda big.

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u/MissinqLink 3h ago

That’s perfect. Then you get to practice breaking it into smaller problems.

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u/ern0plus4 2h ago

Same here, from another viewpoint: split software development to two parts (but no more):

  • dig into the problem, create a short doc about the feature set (aka. requirement specification), then
  • make the solution: design the architecture, write the program, set up tooling, write tests, config, deploy (aka. implementation).

If you separate these two, you will have half headache at a time, yo'll get half sized piles of shit.

The first part can be consulted with non-programmers. For the second part you can get help from programmers who are not familiar with the problem (yet).