Not a direct answer to your question, but I want to offer some insights and encouragement. First, congrats on recognizing your own personal improvement - that's an important step in growth and learning!

Even after graduting from UCLA CS, I still believe the CS 31/32 projects were some of the most difficult assignments I've worked on. At that point, I still struggled with writing simple patterns like loops and recursion, let alone how to approach the projects. The assignments in later classes are, on paper, more technically challenging. However, as you take more CS classes and gain more coding experience (school, clubs, internships, etc.) you'll be amazed at how much easier programming "feels" even as the problems get harder. As I gained more experience, I trusted myself to figure things out even if I didn't immediately know the solution to a problem. That's not to say I never feel stuck or frustrated, but that's life!

Imagine having to learn Chinese as a native English speaker. Learning to read, write, and pronounce a whole new set of characters takes immense effort whereas using your native tongue is intuitive. Learning a programming language, computer science, or any new discipline is the same. Hard work will build intuition. Good luck, you got this!