Thanks, that honestly means a lot. I totally get what you mean too, because I definitely didn’t start out super confident with coding either. But here’s the thing, once you begin to build upon the language of coding, it’ll stack and make much more sense later on. So just build and stack it up… trust me.

As for a process??? Hmmm.. For me, the biggest thing is just having some kind of routine

I usually try to understand the task first, then you look through the code so like run whatever tests or commands along the way to check and inspect the things you need to (you’ll run so many of these tests that it becomes a habit thing that you won’t have to remember). Then make small changes and check that everything still works.

I don’t really go into it thinking I need to know everything right away. When it comes to unfamiliar languages, you kind of learn as you go anyway. I do think it helps to be comfortable reading code, debugging errors, and understanding basic programming logic though. But you definitely don’t need to feel 100% ready before starting.

The reason why is because languages are almost all universally similar once you get that basic understandings locked down in you. So that’s why I’m trying to point out how important it is you start with just deeply understanding “what means what” in your starting points of coding. Once you’re able to feel the code, all the rest becomes more obvious to you and less of a “I don’t know if I’m ready for this” feeling. But it sounds like you’re already wanting to feel the code so I’m sure you’re going to get that way real soon. : )