u/Dizzy-Suggestion3293

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I'm currently in 5th semester and I'm confused about how people actually approach projects.

In my 2nd year, I built one website and one app, but honestly, I used AI for almost everything. I could get them working, but I didn't really understand the code or the technologies behind them. Looking back, I don't consider those projects a good representation of my actual skills.

Now I want to build a proper website that I can genuinely understand and explain.

The problem is that when I think about building even a relatively simple full-stack project, it feels like I first need to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, backend, databases, authentication, APIs, deployment, etc. If I try to learn all of these properly from scratch before building anything, it feels like it could take 8–9 months.

So I'm considering a different approach:

- Decide on a project.

- Use AI to help me build the initial version.

- While building, learn what technologies, concepts, libraries, APIs, etc. are actually being used.

- Then go through the project properly and understand the code instead of blindly keeping it.

- Modify/add features myself and eventually be able to explain and rebuild important parts without AI.

Is this a reasonable way to learn development, or am I just repeating the mistake I made in 2nd year?

For people who actually build projects: How do you approach this? Do you learn the entire stack first and then build, or learn things as you need them while building?

Also, where do you personally draw the line with AI? Is using AI for boilerplate/debugging/explanations okay, while the developer should still understand and be able to modify the code?

I'd genuinely like to hear how people who are ahead of me actually do this, because right now I feel like I'm overcomplicating the whole process.

how many ppl are doing 6th or 7th or 8th sem NPTEL course in 5th sem itself? If yes will that be added to sgpa in 5th sem only or it will be added later in that particular sems? And also in 5th sem we have min 22 credits and maximum we can register for 28 credits. How many min credits are for 6th,7th ,8th sems?pls anyone Suggest whether I need to register in 5th sem or later sems ( based on 5th sem difficulty)

I finished my 2nd year. And from now I want to study for placements. I didn't do much dsa before and started to do seriously from one week and also I am learning web development for projects. I know for placements aptitude is also important. Seniors can u tell me from where should I learn aptitude and do I need to start now or for now should I stick more to dsa and web development.