How did you learn/master coding?

Question

I'm a 24 yo college student and I'm fairly new to coding. I really want to get to Bioinformatics or Software engineering but I understand you need a solid coding background. I feel like every time I tried to code I get stuck. I know the answer to learn to code is actually DO IT but I'm looking for other genuine responses. Thanks and have a wonderful day

Regards,
Brian Griffin

Answer 1

When I was in grade 9 I was first introduced to Alice.
I really got into it, and made a 3d fps zombie game.
It was really crappy but awesome.

However, in Alice you don't actually code.
It is purely drag and drop.

In grade 10 we were introduced to Visual Basic. Actual coding.
I had no idea what I was doing, so I spent most of my class time playing (and beating) the worlds hardest game.

Grade 11 is when I finally tried to understand coding.
It was Netbeans with Java this time.
I would say, I truly had no understanding of anything.
However, I managed to memorize most things through practice.
I eventually managed (by practicing) to be able to piece some code together near the end of grade 11.
Solving problems similar to those that I have done before. However I was completely lost in OOP. (Had to copy and look at notes to do any OOP)

When grade 12 came, I finally got how to piece together code and understood lots of new things. This was mainly from a 2d turn based game I was creating in Netbeans. It was also awful, and poorly designed, but heck it worked.
Once I could do that, I think my brain ticked later on with OOP.
Everything has been fairly straightforward since I've understood OOP.

So, I would say it took me 2 years (grade 11/12) to fully understand programming.
(Alice is kinda meh).

I'm now 19, 2nd year University, and I'd say I could solve most problems you throw at me if I understand the Problem, and am given enough time.

If you are only first year of programming, don't worry, keep trying. It'll come to you. I think understanding it in one year is phenomenal.
Practice is really the only good way of learning for this subject.
Teaching is excellent too, but you first need some understanding in order to be able to teach.

Answer 2

I really Got Into Coding When I was on 10th Grade, I learned and mastered C++ from Class, Then I started to learn All other Laguages Python, Ruby,SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, Assembly Laguage, Bash programming etc...I'm 17 years Old, Learnt all of them Online.Its not hard to program if you learnt the language.
I had problems while I was Doing My course.But After Completing a Language, It really Become easy for me Program in that language.
But it all come down to the Understanding of the Langauge.You have to be Consistent with Logic a Specific language.
Goof Luck.