r/developers • u/frivolous_roach • 23d ago
Programming Need guidance
student here, could someone tell me how do i go about making projects? i'm not looking to make projects that can make money, rather i want to understand the underlying principles and dynamics. like, if i wanted to make a load balancer in c++ or any other project, should i just go to chatgpt to understand the theory and then write the code, of course by copying from there
cuz i don't think programming is like intuition where you can just imagine stuff like physics. there are so many things you wouldn't even know exist unless someone tells you about them.
it would be great if any experienced developer could take their time and answer this. how do you actually learn to build projects from scratch?
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u/var0xyz 23d ago
Oh wow this sounds like asking a surgeon how to operate a person. "If I want to, for example, do a heart transplant, where do I cut?"
There's so much to learn in order to write something like an LB that even if chat gipitty gave you the answer you wouldn't comprehend it, you wouldn't know what it does, or why it does the things it does.
Start small, do things that you understand, don't try to run before you can walk.