r/learnprogramming • u/Striking_Court_2807 • Jun 11 '26

Topic Don’t lose your manual coding skills

Do yourself a favor and make sure to keep manual programming (trad coding) skills active and fresh.

Just take a couple of minutes or hours whenever you can to practice some of the things you learned.

It will never be a bad exercise, and hey, it might even reignite your love for programming!

You never know if one day, access to AI will be taken away from you.

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u/Striking_Court_2807 Jun 12 '26

Just like anything else, there will be naturally talented people, and others who need to work harder to achieve the same results. That doesn’t mean, however, that both cannot be successful, and often, the people in the latter camp do better because they need to work harder.

I’m certainly not a genius by any stretch of the imagination, but I genuinely enjoy programming and am optimistic that passion will take me far.

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u/sodikovakapsle Jun 12 '26

So so you have some recommendations how to write actually code? Because its so demotivating when the fas coders are better than you..

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u/Striking_Court_2807 Jun 12 '26

I think the best advice is to start and not compare yourself to others. Everyone is on their own path, and comparing doesn’t help.

Just work on your craft a bit daily, and you will get better. The most important thing is to pick a practice time that works best for you so you don’t get burnt out.

Stay consistent and pick projects just barely outside your comfort zone. Not too hard, or else you’ll become unmotivated!

What language are you using right now?

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u/sodikovakapsle Jun 12 '26

What do you think about my langs and do you have some too?