When I started learning to program, it felt like staring at a foreign language. I followed tutorials, copied examples, and still couldn’t see how it all connected. Then one day, after hours of frustration, I wrote a small script that actually worked, the script was to automate a boring task I used to do by hand.


That was the moment it clicked: programming isn’t about memorizing syntax, it’s about solving problems. Suddenly the language didn’t feel abstract anymore, it felt like a tool.


I wonder if others had a similar moment where the fog lifted. Was it building your first website, your first game, or just a simple script that saved you time?