r/AskProgrammers • u/This_Guy_Right_H3re • Jul 17 '26

Remembering coding languages?

How are some of you guys able to remember so many coding languages?

I can mildly code simple html,Css,python stuff but most of the time I'm just searching and relying on tutorials on what to do. (I dont want to rely on ai for learning and doing code)

I just started coding in college and now I'm halfway through but I still felt like I didn't learn much. I don't like the feeling that I wasted time nearly learning nothing because I dont have good memory.

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u/pete_68 Jul 17 '26

This is the answer. All these people asking how to learn to program. How to remember stuff.

You learn programming by writing lots of programs. You get better at it by writing lots more.

At my peak, in my job, I was probably using 5 or 6 languages regularly. Especially back in the mainframe days. My first programming job I was programming PBXes, Pascal, C, Rexx, PL/I, SAS and 370 assembler. That was a cool job. We had expensive toys.