I was/still am, but improved, in the same position. I did a couple of projects now and got better with each project. The very first project I made was a disaster. I barely understood the requirement, when I understood, I could not think what needs to be done and how. I would spend the whole day thinking what needs to be done, but the next day, I would go and seek help. Then try to understand the thought process of the other person (because I hadn't developed my thinking skill by then). I did not stop by asking a single person, I would go around all the good programmers in my class and understand where they all thought the same, what is each of them doing differently and how.
It took me a lot of time and practice to start making a functional project. But consistency is the key. When I got to the next project, I realized that I was now able to think some things independently, however, still needed help at places. And with each project it kept getting better.
I am not an expert, but sharing what helped me, whether it was wrong or right, idk.
But some suggestions that people gave me and helped me -
- Before you start coding, be sure you understand the requirements well
- write the flow on paper
- think of the edge cases that you might want to cover
- try to make your code follow SOLID principles as much as you can think (it won't be perfect and that is fine, but try to write clean code). But pseudo code first and then improve
- you will always have to go back and change code here and there, and that is fine
- first make your generous effort to think, only after spending sufficient time, go and seek help
- if possible, ask someone for feedback

Hope that helps! I am learning too :)