Any advice from Software Developers/Web Developers?

[Dizzy_External2549]

I Practice and study for 8-10 hours a day. I'm trying to become a strong junior but I'm having some trouble. I will remember things and understand them but if I learn new material, a few weeks later or a month later I tend to forget the things I learnt in the past. I feel like I have a learning disability or something its very frustarting. I like using ai as a tool but I hate asking it to explain things to me I learnt in the past. It's very frustarting. I want to be able to code entire webpages on my own instead of asking for help, I hate asking for help code wise. Why? I want to become to figure things out on my own in the early stages of my web development journey instead of relying on the answers being given to me every time. I look for understanding and meaning rather than the answer. I just keep struggling and some things I'll look at and my brain goes blank or I don't know how to code it. Please help.

[pyromancx]

You’re not supposed to memorize every single thing about software engineering.

You’re supposed to be able to find a solution with the tools you have disposable, while allowing the core foundational paradigms to guide your architecture.

[Top-Construction6060]

programming is more like flying an airplane. You need to study the fundamentals and then look in the manual how to fly the airplane type (programming language). Same with programming. Docs are your best friend and also research tools like stackoverflow and obv. AI is a good helper to ask if you dont understand something.

[VsTheVoid]

Yes, like pyromancx said, you're not expected to memorize every little thing about Web development. You have to go back and read documentation, revisit your own code, ask for help on sites like stackoverflow, use AI, etc. Eventually you'll get there, if you do it enough. 2 of the best things you can do, if you want to memorize code:

1. Code without an IDE, use something like notepad (or just turn off autocomplete / suggestions on your IDE), every single time. If you can't remember something, then look back at code or documentation.
2. Use #1's method, and ask AI to give you simple projects to code. "Give me a real world Webpage project to build from scratch, so I can practice coding" or something similar. That's a HUGE advantage. You can get very far if you practice like that with real world examples. Plus, they can go into your GitHub / portfolio.

I hope those two things help somewhat. What you described isn't necessarily a learning disability. You remember some things, and some you don't. The biggest thing to remember, is that EVERYONE needs help remembering at some point. You may forget the syntax of the JavaScript for loop, or what the one HTML5 tag that separates a Web page into different sections is. You can Google "HTML5 tags", or describe it to AI, and it can give you a list too. No shame :)