[zaphar]

Your workflow is pretty much the same as 90% of the other professional programmers out there. The walls change as you get more experienced and you copy paste less as you're toolbox grows but unless you are in university working on a CS PhD or the senior dev/fellow at a Google or Facebook working on something no one else has already solved then that workflow is 90% of every programmers workflow.

You might start as a junior dev but within a year you'll be talking the lingo, your toolbox will have exploded, and you'll be well on your way.

You have already demonstrated that you have the one quality necessary to be a good programmer. The ability to think abstractly and manipulate and express those thoughts in a concrete manner. Everything else is just practice and hard work.