I’ve found when something feels really hard (programming problem) that is takes me longer than a day to figure out a solution, i am missing some piece of knowle

I’ve found when something feels really hard (programming problem) that is takes me longer than a day to figure out a solution, i am missing some piece of knowledge that’s a stepping stone to solve the problem This will lead me to trying to figure out where my knowledge gap is so i can fill the gap and then try again to solve the problem