Lost in programming

[foolygoofy26]

I use to design web pages, do small applications doing basic database connection and put info in and out. Then I decided to go further and entered school and they have been teaching me theories to learn other theories and a bunch of practical stuff and now I'm so clueless of things that I spend a day thinking about a for loop to add some array values. Yes life is busier latelly for me, but even to design a simple project I can't.

Anybody been thru this before, how you got out of this, any recommendations .

[webhead]

Yeah, math seems so easy in elementary school...

I feel that way right now with CSS. Not only are there a gazillion ways to do one thing and 50 questions to answer in trying to find which one to use when, but you also have to worry about which browsers have what quirks on which platforms. Takes a while to get your head around a lot of these things. I've got code snippets I've been using for a year and I still don't know how they work.

All I can tell you is to take one thing at a time; divide and conquer. Try to find a solution similar to what you're trying to do and adapt it; that's how I learned a lot of things.

[Niheel]

Practice, practice, practice. School only teaches you theory, but to truly master programming and software development there is nothing like doing it. It is much like learning music.

[ablaye]

Well if you spend a day thinking about a for loop, I am not sure that you went to a good school. If you took any good programming class, you should have learn about all the basics of programming, if and else if, for loops, while, etc...
What they can't teach you in school, is how to think efficiently, write good code and problem solving skills. That comes with experience.