[korme]

The pandemic did one good thing for me - I quit bartending after about 10 years of doing so, and decided to get back into school. I would say the process leading up to re-enrolling has been a slow burn, but the pandemic expedited things.

I decided to hop into a community college program focused on software development. This is my first semester actually taking classes geared towards this field, and I'm crushing 3 of the 4 classes.

The class I'm struggling with the most is the most important one. It is Intro to C++. I'm getting the basics and while it's still not second hand nature for me, I know that I can eventually hang in this field.

However, I am struggling. This class is completely online, so I have no interaction with an instructor - I mean, they are there, but not responsive, or very late to respond - I mostly watch assigned YouTube videos and then do my own external googling to solve problems.

So each week we have a new assignment, and each week I find myself going backwards, copying and pasting basic code to get a start and then cycling through past tutorials to build out whatever it is I'm supposed to do. It feels very fraudulent (and also, not very efficient), I don't feel like it's sticking.

I guess my question is if anyone has tips on how to better go about learning this crash course.. i.e, any websites I should be directed to, etc.