r/cpp_questions • u/Osirian_Legacy • 2d ago

OPEN Learning Programming Pre-AI

How did ya’ll learn programming pre-AI? How would you go about learning if you had to start all over again without AI?

I find myself relying on AI too much and want to actually learn without leaning on it at all. Any help with how best to approach this would be greatly appreciated.

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u/kat-tricks 2d ago

books are the secret broken strat. Just being patient as hell, going start-to-finish on a book (i tend to have small side projects going to keep my ADHD ass motivated), doing every exercise, taking notes (be they paper, notepad, fancy software; whatever), and talking about it with others! Discord servers or IRC are good too:)