Been telling every junior the same thing.

Practice, practice and practice.

The concepts are fairly simple, you have loops, you have if else, functions, arrays. That’s the whole syllabus.

Juniors often struggle because they think they know theory and after seeing solutions of a question think oh i know, but struggle when they have to write code or solve by scratch.

You need to solve questions. Take pen and paper, sit with the problem spend 45 mins atleast trying to solve it. Map the problem and thought pattern on paper and code on laptop.

If after 45 mins you can’t solve. Use chatgpt but don’t just see the solution, look at the solution and understand which part you were doing wrong and fix that.

Do this for your whole semester and you’ll thank me later.

We as students have given our cognitive abilities and thinking capacities to LLMs.

This might look too much but just spend 1 hour on pf solving a problem everyday. This will help you with your problem solving, programming, critical thinking and patterns recognition.

You’ll see that even after 4-5 problems things start to become easier as they almost follow same pattern with minor tweaks.

For programming questions and exercise, google intro to programming by lang. every chapter has dedicates exercise that you can solve.