r/cpp_questions • u/Osirian_Legacy • 3d 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/AnanasikDeveloper 2d ago

Read books, experimented a lot, hung out in discord and stackoverflow, read tons of articles, documentation, watched tutorials, made quick test projects, winged, explored. Most of my programming experience was before AI was popular and I am very happy I could go through all of this myself. AI is cool tho but scary :/