Programming and Working Memory

In my use case for this post I'm once again thinking of Angular. I have to admit I've gone elsewhere for a different perspective on Angular and I'm making a few inroads in my understanding of Angular so I will be much more confident when I go back to the Treehouse Angular course. But that's by the by.

My main point for this discussion is about what Treehouse users do when they try and tackle a project on their own for the first time. How is the working memory? Can you go to a project and accomplish a task from memory rather than going back to a code snippet to switch on the lightbulb in the brain that holds the answer?

I have to admit, because of my learning difficulty I sometimes struggle with this. And this is not to say that I haven't got the answer. It's very often there stored in the brain but doesn't always get to "end of the road" for want of a better expression so I can't figure out precisely what I need to type.

As an example...

If you were to ask me (as I recently was) how to create a new Angular module with a specific name... which isn't a whole lot of code to write I'd be likely to come up with something like this

BoltNetworkApp = angular.module{[]}

Which doesn't even sit right with me but even though I've looked at this task a number of times now and have a grounding on what it's supposed to do I've still not got it right, have I?

So off I go to have a look at a project I created... yea that's right... I haven't even assigned the module to variable or named the module properly.

var app = angular.module("BoltNetworkApp", []);

That's what lets me down more than anything else. The knowing precisely what I need to type.. not so much knowing where to look for the answer but how to do it on the fly.

Am I looking at it from a too simplistic point of view in terms of how programmers learn their way through a problem.

Be interested to hear peoples thoughts.