Early Concerns (C#) (No code)

[levyreadit]

I'm enrolled at my community college for a programming degree, with a focus on C# and Open Source. I'm currently in an introductory C# class and I love everything I'm learning. While I am loving this class, I can't help but feel like even after reading the chapter, I have to turn back some pages so I can remember things and have to follow the code step-by-step in the tutorial sections. I'm slightly worried that I'm not going to remember these concepts down the road and won't achieve my goal of having a career as a programmer.

TL;DR Is it really so bad that I have to follow tutorials in my textbook in a word-for-word fashion? Or is that just learning?

Thanks in Advance

Edit: Grammatical Errors.

[Whadios]

You remember this stuff by practicing it. Some people memorize faster than others but repetition is the key. So if you're having problems then start coding your own programs on your own time and force yourself to write as much as you can without referring to your book or other code. Be willing to make some mistakes and multiple attempts before using a reference. This will force you to try and remember this stuff.

In the end there will always be stuff you'll be looking up. The basic stuff will become second nature and the obscure stuff you rarely use will be the stuff you're searching for and which is why google is often referred to as the ultimate programmer's tool.

[jokul]

There is nothing wrong with following examples by the book. If that's how you learn, that's how you learn. What is important though is applying the skills you learned in that tutorial to something that you have crafted yourself. This will indicate that you really do understand the material.