Ello, I'm a DS major studying data science and algorithms right now. Third year.

I recently started running into a major weakness recently, which I think has been permeating in my CS tests and classes for the past few years now.

Regardless of the topics or classes I'm taking for CS, I feel functionally illiterate in most cases when it comes to reading even basic code. It takes an incredible amount of time for me to parse through and figure out what I'm looking at, even for basic fundamental algorithms or functions, and in many cases I still manage to end up being wrong.

Even for things like loops and parameters, I'm spending way too much time trying to see if certain aspects of programs are deliberately set to be certain ways. It's really inefficient, and in spite of being two years deep into it, it's barely changed over the course of college.

Now it's getting to a point where this is virtually the only reason why grades are bleeding out in quizzes and stuff.…