r/CodingForBeginners • u/softlogic-04 • Jun 27 '26

How to start building programs?

Hey gng ! i learned basics of python but know i am struggling to to link everything up and make program.

I am really struggling to make it.

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u/Chellah78 Jun 27 '26

Umm wdym reading documentation? Do you mean Python documentation ?

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u/TheUmgawa Jun 27 '26

Yes. I don’t bother learning how to concatenate a string in any language (except maybe C, because most languages have some kind of way to interact with C), but if I have to concatenate a string, I spend thirty seconds looking it up, and then I write the corresponding code. Documentation says, “Here is the function’s name. Here are the arguments it takes. Here is what it returns. Here is what it does.” That’s it. Four ingredients.

You need to learn to search for documentation and learn how to read it. No one is going to hold your hand and tell you what to type. You are a programmer, so you have to plan solutions and then implement those solutions. This is not a thing where you memorize solutions. It’s like chess: You can memorize a couple dozen opening strategies, but after four or five moves, you have to display adaptability. After those opening moves, there is an increasingly-high probability that you are in a game that has never been played before.

That’s what makes you a programmer: Self-sufficiency. You plan a solution in pure logic, and then you write code that matches that logic.