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Roelof Jan Elsinga

First of all, just take a breath. A lot of information is coming at you at the same time, and you might not understand half of it. This is normal when you learn new things.

Your first step should to write it down (or type it out). This way you're already teaching yourself to understand what's going on. By doing this, you're also figuring out where you need to start: what do you look at first and what do you need to know. Being thrown in the deep end, where you need to figure out everything by yourself is a tough situation to be in. I understand why your manager does this, but this is not the right way. Try this: write down all the steps you need to go through to get to the result you want and show these steps to your manager. If it's wrong, he'll probably corrects your mistake and that will give you a good starting point. If you're right, then you can simply follow your own steps.

I'm happy to answer more questions if you have any!