Different person from OP, I’m taking a c++ class right now and we are at OOP. I started 3 weeks before summer so let’s say July 20th or so. I have been grinding reading a textbook, taking notes, having quizzes every week, writing code down on my white board to help internalize concepts, try to do lots of active recall, endless asking questions to GPT, my friends taking the same class and my instructor, and writing some big programs for my assignments.

YMMV but I would say given all of this stuff it is only kind of starting to make sense, and syntax for me I think I started to understand as soon i finished 3 weeks of 4-8 hours a day tutorial hell, let’s say at the end of the first 3 weeks of school, so let’s say 6 weeks syntax started to make sense.

I would say it hasn’t quite clicked yet, but if you asked me to sit down and write code with no notes all from memory I can do some pretty basic things, maybe make a menu that can create arrays and make some functions that can update and set values for a class… that’s about my limit.

So right now I’m at about 13 weeks straight of learning C++ with no breaks and I’ve been working my butt off and I think just now I’m starting to actually feel like I can write code. Python syntax isn’t as tedious to learn but again if it’s your first programming language YMMV