A lot of explanations here about how other people learned to use programming as a tool for themselves, but everybody is different. One person's analogy for usin

A lot of explanations here about how other people learned to use programming as a tool for themselves, but everybody is different. One person's analogy for using code might not work for you. You have to discover what works for you on your own. Sure, keep the other analogies and things in mind, and ask yourself if you can relate, as you progress through your own journey. Everything is relative though, and your experiences are what make you unique and valuable to the community as a whole. Maybe you're the next Bob Ross of JavaScript - we want you to be. So, don't aim to mimic somebody else's experiences because that'd just be an injustice and it'd also take away from what makes this journey so rewarding. I suggest just visualizing some end goal of yours. You want to make a website that offers some kind of service of something? Visualize that site and break it down into chunks. Finally, dive in head first. Just start coding on it. Don't give a single thought to whether or not it's as good as somebody else's code. Don't worry about if it's the best it could be, yet. All you need to do is connect the dots, mentally, and play with the legos. Focus on hacking together something that, in the end, resembles that mental picture you had. Once you're there, a large portion of your original question will have pretty much been answered - you'll have use code to solve some problem. All that remains is to figure out how to improve. That's all any of us are doing - trying to improve.