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Thanks for your answer, The difficult part for me is that I have to force myself to ask the questions that you talk about, it's definitely not intuitive for me

by jrookie 16y ago

Thanks for your answer, The difficult part for me is that I have to force myself to ask the questions that you talk about, it's definitely not intuitive for me and my first reaction is not to think about the different solutions a problem could have, like you said I can't break a problem into chunks, and this I think is essential to be a programmer.

htp 16y ago
These are things you can't do yet. The yet is the important part- never forget that. I read somewhere above that you spend a lot of time fixing bugs. Congratulations! You're already a programmer! To move onward and upward, the biggest thing you can do is change your mindset from "how do I make this problem go away?" to "what is causing this problem to happen?" At the end of the day, you'll still get those bugs fixed, but you'll have a deeper understanding of the things that led to them in the first place. Once you know that, breaking things down and shuffling ideas becomes second nature.