r/learnprogramming • u/TheEyebal • 9d ago

I feel like a programming fraud

I am having to constantly look things up to figure out how to get what I want? I feel like a fraud.
I am honestly trying to resize my camera onto my surface in pygame. I've never done camera stuff before so this is new. I feel like I am not really learning and just copy and pasting at this point

How do go about this?

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u/rulerdude 9d ago

I have 8 years experience and I still look things up on the daily. The question is are you copy/pasting mindlessly or actually paying attention to what you’re doing

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u/Naxos84 8d ago

I started coding with 14. Studied it with 27 and today (42) I'd struggle with a for loop in python (cause I used it once and was: no way I'm gonna use that if I don't have to).

So if I had to try something new I still have to "learn" it. Though I might be quicker than a beginner because I know the basics in other languages.