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Hot take: copying code from videos without typing it out is why you're stuck after 3 months
Honestly I see this over and over in beginner groups and I did it too when I started. Last summer I watched like 40 hours of Python tutorials on YouTube and felt like I was learning so much, but when a friend asked me to build a simple to-do list app in July I just stared at a blank file for 20 minutes. The thing nobody says out loud is that watching someone type code feels like learning but your brain is just recognizing stuff, not building it. When you type it out yourself, even slow and messy, you hit errors and your fingers start to remember where the brackets go. I spent 2 weeks retyping every example from one course without copy paste and it was boring but suddenly loops and functions just clicked. The other part is people skip the tiny exercises at the end of each lesson because they feel too easy, but that's literally the reps. If you're 3 months in and still googling how to write a for loop, try retyping one small project from scratch with no video. Has anyone else noticed this in their own learning, or is it just me?
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