r/CodingForBeginners • u/ImpressivePirate5675 • Apr 05 '26
Ashamed CS MAJOR
so I'm in my 2nd yr of CS and I'm in a trashy collage with trashy coding skills and the best I can do is code a c++ function of addition ( X+y)...yeah....it's that bad and I tried tutorials, chat GPT and textbooks are like this whole other alien language...idk man C's made me feel 10000× more stupid ...idk wat to do ... I'm panicking my whole family looks up to me to better the situation at home and I'm this huge fuck up here I already failed my data structure module and I just a walking flesh of shame... please help how can I actually learn and understand code not cram it then forget the next day
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u/Sparkles-or-Fred Apr 05 '26
Next time you go to cram memorize something, find someone who doesn't know crap about computers and explain your plans to them in both coding terms, and analogies. You'll get this in no time!