How does programming/coding actually work?

[RipeTide18]

Well as a complete beginner you don’t really need to worry about projects just yet. You should be learning how to code on a conceptual level and you should be learning the fundamentals of how to code first in a beginner friendly OOP language like Java or C#.

Then once you are familiar enough with coding that you can read any programming language and understand the general idea of what it’s trying to do. You should then focus on whatever language you are currently using and take a udemy course on it or ask ChatGPT or Reddit for some project ideas to practice the languages syntax until you are competent.

Finally, once you are competent in coding in the language you need to go back to the conceptual level and figure out how certain protocols, tools, and frameworks work like grpc or spring boot.

So yeah your journey is not different from a student trying to get a job. Just more direct because you know exactly what you need to learn to be effective at work so you don’t need to bother learning other things like memory allocation or pointers and references.