This is normal.
Programming language is like math. You are given the weird abstract concepts that are hard to understand because you can't see the use for them. Only when you are given a problem where you need them will you understand them.
Programming language is like math. You are given the weird abstract concepts that are hard to understand because you can't see the use for them. Only when you are given a problem where you need them will you understand them.
It's like learning division as a child in math class. It's really hard -- until you buy 10 apples and need to divide them among yourself and 4 other friends (5 total).
I, too, didn't understand arrays on the first go around. It was made worse than the fellow kid explaining them to me was really bad at explaining things. It was just garbage.
Until I was playing with code and needed an array. Suddenly the light went on, "that's what they meant".
Until I was playing with code and needed an array. Suddenly the light went on, "that's what they meant".
Programming is not as hard as you think. It's all easy once you learn it. The problem is learning it. It's really hard learning it abstractly without immediate application, without seeing it in action in your own code.
So that means to learn code you need to write code. But writing code is really hard when you don't fully understand programming concepts yet. Chicken: meet egg.
