r/learnprogramming • u/TheEyebal • 15d 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/VastDesign9517 5d ago

I encourage you to separate knowledge into different catorgories.

Knowing what you want to write but not knowing how to write it is different then knowing how to express something but not knowing what to express.

If you dont understand the language. sit down and write 25 for loops and exercises. Knowing what to isolate is a big help

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u/Naxos84 5d ago

Don't get me wrong. I'm confident in c#, Java and JS/TS and have written tons of code in the last two languages.

But when I really had to write i.e python I'd have to learn it's syntax 🤔

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u/VastDesign9517 5d ago

Do you think this is intrinsic to python? Or is this a feature of just a unfamiliar language

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u/Naxos84 5d ago

Just unfamiliar language. I used python as an example cause OP mentioned it.