How will I know when to create an interface?

I’m at a point in my development learning where I feel like I must learn more about interfaces.

I frequently read about them but it just seems like I cannot grasp them.

I’ve read examples like: Animal base class, with IAnimal interface for things like ‘Walk’, ‘Run’, ‘GetLegs’, etc – but I’ve never been working on something and felt like “Hey I should use an interface here!”

What am I missing? Why is it such a hard concept for me to grasp! I am just intimidated by the fact that I might not ever realize a concrete need for one – mostly due to some missing aspect of understanding them! It makes me feel like I’m missing something up top in terms of being a developer! If anyone has had an experience like this and had a breakthrough I would appreciate some tips on how to understand this concept. Thank you.

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