When you know many languages don't you have problems memorizing everything?

Question

I only know HTML and I already catch my self not remembering stuff some times when I haven't used something for a while, and there aren't even that much stuff to remember in HTML, how do people who know a bunch of different languages not forget all these stuff? I have heared that the understanding of the language is what matters and memorization isn't needed much at programming but I don't understand how thats true, maybe its because I'm still new.

Answer 1

Syntax is different from implementation. The HTML syntax is about how to write opening and closing tags, attributes etc. If you find yourself forgetting that, it is very abnormal! But it is ok to forget what a particular rarely used tag does. You can easily check documentations for that. Same goes for other programming languages. You learn the syntax, that you can never forget. Then you learn the built-in functions, methods, libraries etc. You may forget some of it from time-to-time, it is okay to check the docs for that.

Answer 2

It's okay to be confused sometimes for a moment, regularly practice will reduce the impact.

Answer 3

Karak10 , You don't need to learn
hundred of different languages ,

You may just pick one language at a time and master(*Get Good at) its syntax , and once you have mastered programming concepts,Syntax in one programming languages .

You will just easily grasp the other languages .

Answer 4

No but there are hundred of different languages with a lot of details and it just seems to be hard to remember all these stuff.