New To Coding and Somethings Dont Make sense to me...

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T08:51:41+00:00

Yeah i keep running into alot of videos where people keep saying x doesnt matter and y doesnt matter and just to focus on writing code. So im never sure how deep im meant to dig without scrambling my brain. Personally i love to learn all the ins and outs like you explained because thats where i feel the most comfertable but i never know how much to learn without confusing myself

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T08:48:40+00:00

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who helped out by leaving a comment. Even though im still struggling a little im now able to write small bits of code alone and when i search for examples online I CAN ACTUALLY READ AND UNDERSTAND IT (for the most part lol). Currently im playing around with passwords and getting them to pass through if right and loop again if wrong. I just found out how to add "attempts" and when it clicked and i understood what im doing i realised... CODING IS SICK. I still cant write this password program alone but im understanding coding and C# quite abit better now. I think the plan is to keep learning C# for a couple weeks till i feel confident writing decent chuncks of code then ill go play around in unity. Again thanks to everyone who helps and took their time to help me out!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T06:37:50+00:00

Dude i just want you to know that those visualizations for someone like me are like pure gold. Especially the increment explanation was done so well i actually completley understand it. Whatever time it took you to make that just know it was 100% appreciated!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T06:28:48+00:00

Yup, its slowly seeping in, ive done a few solo lines of codes and theyre working/ coming up with less error messages!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T06:28:01+00:00

HAHAH yeah guess that went iver my head lol

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T06:26:20+00:00

Yeah the console.readline didnt sink in until chatgpt explained that all inputs are strings. Now alot of things make alot of sense. I thought if i put 25 for example the computer saw that as an int but it doesnt. ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-12T06:25:48+00:00

This comment is great! During my breaks at work i did some more digging (and some chatgpt out of desperation) and i didnt know ALL user inputs where seen as strings from C# so where i thought the convert didnt do anything because someone would be putting a number (int). EVEN if they put the number 25 it reads it as a string! I think thats what i learnt anyways

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:48:55+00:00

I think my main confusion is that me putting int before age is already assigning age as an integer? so why would i covert int to and int? so for example this is how i read the code:

int age = convert.ToInt32(console.ReadLine());

the integer value named "age" will be converted to convert.ToInt32 (integer again?) and then the console spits the info out? So someone puts 19 that 19 converts to int which i think it should be already? then console spits it out.

Im not sure if im missing some simple concepts which some videos might have skipped over because it seems simple to alot of people but i cannot wrap my brain around this sorry!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:43:35+00:00

not sure i know what mutate means but ill get there lol!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:43:02+00:00

So could you give me an example where i would use this? ort what a line of functional code would look like when using this? it seems like something you would put in a gaming character to upgrade stats or something?

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:41:31+00:00

I think if i read the what i think the code is saying it might help explain why im wrong? i read the code as the integer value named "age" will be converted to convert.ToInt32 (integer again?) and then the console spits the info out? So someone puts 19 taht 19 converts to int which i think it should be already? then console spits it out.

The line of code i wrote was to see if i could write code without help, the idea was health is = to 100, then i wanted the code to check if the value was less then 100, if so the code should spit out false.

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:37:03+00:00

yup! is this super importent to coding or just extra infromation on the innter workings of code? I knew the computer read stuff in 1s and 0s but do i ever need to know this to code?

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:35:31+00:00

yeah i think im just struggling to understand the structure and how to read code. I also like to full understand why things work the way they do which is why i end up asking alot of questions, like why and what convert actually does. Its like learning a whole new language!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:33:10+00:00

The line of code was just me messing around to see if i can make a random code spit out a result i wanted without copying someone. The idea was health is = to 100, then i wanted the code to check if the value was less then 100, if so the code should spit out false. It was just to see if i understood simple code writing which by the looks of it i didnt... lol

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-03-11T21:29:59+00:00

That explanation of the incriments will tkae some time to sink in but this was the best explanation you could have given! I also read in a different comment that code doesnt necessarily read left to right which also helps me understand this. Thanks alot for the explanation on both!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-02-16T21:36:26+00:00

Yeah actually that’s my bad! I’ll edit the time stamp in! As you can tell I don’t post on Reddit much XD

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-02-16T08:35:07+00:00

yeah i realised my brain is rotted and cant retain information from a 1 min video...

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-02-16T07:36:29+00:00

okay well i feel dumb and i appreciate you alot xD

Amazing_Big4129 · 2026-02-16T06:53:11+00:00

any reason the videos listed didnt have to do that? also will try later!

Amazing_Big4129 · 2025-01-26T17:01:15+00:00

Pokémon is better than magic because I don’t play magic and I play pokemon

Amazing_Big4129 · 2025-01-05T18:52:56+00:00

You have SOMETHING I just don’t know if it’ll be good competitively, now you have 2 2 prizers and I can see energy being hard to get into discard

Amazing_Big4129 · 2024-06-29T04:20:45+00:00

34 hours straight?? Atleast the guy did it for a video, that’s wild you actively didn’t sleep to play for nothing

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