How did you start to "get" programming?

Basic programming work deserves basic pay. Designing a system and then implementing that system is much more work that demands a higher skill. Try as they might but low grade programmers will not succeed to design a system from scratch even with the power of Stack Overflow supporting them.

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Instantly. It's not hard, at least the basics aren't. Everything is labelled after what it does (if, until, etc.) after all. You just need to sort it in the right way and it just werks.
Just learn the syntax, then practice a couple times and you should've got it. Java is a shit language though, that might be contributing to your failure.

Programming in your blood. My father taught me BASIC when I was 8, and I've been programming ever since. If you got wrecked, you probably just have shit genes. I'd give up if I were you.

I dont think there was ever a single moment for me when it all clicked. Over many half-assed years of starting and stopping several languages the necessary thought process was built. You kinda just have to realize that all programming is is the movement and manipulation of data. Moving it to where it needs to be and making it what it needs to be for when it gets there. Once you have the right data in the right place you use it to make more data to move and manipulate. Then repeat the process until your program works.

I started with BASIC on an 8-bit computer, long ago. Now everything is more complicated, so you're a bit out of luck. I guess you could try TempleOS, since at least it gives you an REPL and access to the entire system, which is the closest equivalent to how BASIC worked back then (you could PEEK/POKE to all memory, access IO ports, and call machine code addresses). Also the HolyC is a lot nicer than standard C.

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I would argue that programming is just souped up mathematics.

I wouldn't refer to programming as "souped up mathematics" as much as "another form of mathematics".

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