I learned to code essentially from books. I tried the type it out method. It was... um... a dismal failure. I would type it in, and I would have no idea what ha

I learned to code essentially from books. I tried the type it out method. It was... um... a dismal failure. I would type it in, and I would have no idea what happened. It was all in code. There was magic in them thar characters, and the magic wasn't working. So I regrouped and started writing my own code. Lots of code. Very bad C++ code. Excruciatingly bad code. Over and over again. I desperately wanted to understand, and I studied the books time and time and time again, taking those concepts into my very bad code, and after time, my code became less very bad and just... bad. After about two years of this, I was barely marginally competent, but I did pretty much understand how to write code. Then I went off to college and learned computer science.