I'm currently an undergraduate student in my second-to-last year, but I've mostly just been generating code or copying existing code and tweaking it a little. I find myself using other people's neural network architectures or backends to create what I want, but I'd love to be able to code from my own imagination, just like writing an essay in English. I've seen many low-level coders on YouTube writing things from scratch, like bootloaders or compilers, while I struggle to generate anything on my own in the IDE. I make a lot of mistakes and my code can often be inefficient because I don't think things through properly. I'm familiar with various computer science concepts and am good at math for machine learning and deep learning, but I feel lost when it comes to expressing my ideas in code. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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It sounds like you're stuck in a cycle of just copying code. Start with something simple, like writing a simple 'Hello World' program without looking at examples. Gradually build up from there. Learning to code is like learning a language; you need to practice coding yourself to get better at expressing your ideas in code.
Another tip is to try coding something fun or useful in your daily life, like a simple game or a tool that helps with a task you do often. That might spark some creativity!