Comment by systemvoltage

I want to inquire something that I feel only I have this problem: it takes me forever to make anything with code. Like hours to do something simple. I don't get distract that much, but coding is difficult and I've come to appreciate those who can code faster than me. First of all, I spend a bunch of time looking up the best way to write something. That means stackoverflow, searching for libraries, etc. Then, I would write with the debugger on. Making sure what I wrote works, one baby step at a time. I never write the whole thing in one shot like so many other programmers do. They just write pages and pages of code without ever running it, they just know its going to work (for the most part). Thoughts? How do you make progress in programming?