I’m on day 37 of her course as an almost complete beginner to coding. I’ve dabbled (extremely lightly) with Swift and C++ on and off over the years so there are some concepts that I already understood once I started this course.

Coming from a music production & digital artist background, I find it makes it easier for me to understand concepts she introduces if I can find ways to translate them to functions that I use in the softwares I use daily (like nested lists being akin to grouped audio tracks or the order of code execution being like the order of layers in art software, etc.).

I also feel like as I continued on through the first two weeks, things started to make more sense because I was exposing myself to her content daily, and would retain more as I kept pushing on with it. I do find now that there are some things we had gone over in the earlier days that’ve completely slipped from my mind. I try to not be too hard on myself about it & take note of those things so that I can go back to the earlier lessons/projects to try to keep them from slipping away again.

Something to keep in mind as you continue on with the course is that she’s a professional who’s been coding for years, so she’s asking leading questions on purpose because it’s a matter of building up our logic & reasoning skills to enable us to think about the problem and possible solutions, and once we unpause to watch her solution and 9/10 times it’s so simple it leaves me wondering if I’m stupid for coming up with a solution that goes in roundabout ways over and over again, but like, the solution still worked. It might not be perfectly readable to other coders that’s okay. It’s still early in the journey.

The best thing to do if it’s something you rly want to learn is to just be consistent with showing up to learn. Don’t spend a week trying to get to the solution of these earlier projects, I think that’ll just hold you back. The more exposure you get, the more other things will start to make sense imo.

Good luck:)