People who make foss apps generally know and care more about programming than secondary things, such as design.

I’ve seen people with weird personal preferences, and some who seemingly perceived design as unnecessary, just getting in the way of “real” work. I think it’s mostly just lack of time and knowledge than an active decision though.

If you have thoughts about my app, I welcome them.

C# is like Microsoft-branded java. No real difference in the language, but some of the tooling for java is worse.

That’s just basically looking up the answer. … i will not learn anything from it.

Looking up the answer is the way to do it. You’re of course supposed to pay at some attention instead of copy-pasting without using your brains. As you keep doing things, you’ll develop a rough idea of how things are done.

Even if i find it (which is unlikely without asking an llm)

But i don’t know how i did it, and i couldn’t recreate it by myself.

You mean building the thing without any reference? Except for the most basics, you’re not supposed to memorize everything by the smallest details. Imagine asking a lawyer to know the details of every single law off the top of their head.

Seriously, go build that clock.

With basically no knowledge?

Well yeah. You find yourself some simple project and try to build it. When you don’t know how to do something, you look it up.

Like, make a command line clock, for example. Figure out how to get the current time, and then how to print it. And after that how to make it print the time once a second.

Edit: probably the most important skill in programming is breaking the problem into smaller pieces that you can then figure out. With experience, getting stuck like this becomes much less of a problem.