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go for it! Nothing to lose and if you get feedback, even better.

Even though there may be a surplus of lawyers in general out there, that specific lawyer can charge that much because (this sounds obvious) people are willing to pay that much. If …

I think those sorts of things (I include Codeacademy in there as well) are good to just expose people to programming and a way of thinking. I'm not so sure those "learn to program"…

completely agree. Also, learning to read documentation is such an invaluable skill. Just doing tutorials removes the need to figure out how to find things yourself. Until you try t…

Also, there is nothing like the pressure of having to deliver on a project that someone is paying you for. Necessity is the best teacher.

I agree to some degree. I think ambition is absolutely necessary, but I think passion is something that can be developed over time. I've had some false starts in trying to learn ho…

That's a valid point. Did you start programming at an early age? I only ask because I'm coming from the perspective of picking up programming a little later in life (well, after gr…

Thanks, sanxiyn! It's an incredible feeling to be able to push yourself outside of your comfort zone and look back at how far you've come. Does that feeling wear off? What keeps yo…

Thanks, Jordan. I think traditional schooling conditions us to believe we can just read a book and learn something. It seems to be all about content knowledge instead of process kn…

When I was first learning how to code, I was afraid to ask questions in the developer community, for fear that I would be ridiculed as stupid. For some reason I felt like I was bot…

I think I had Nick as a server at the Olive Garden, once. I'm pretty sure he's a better engineer than a waiter. I did get a free Sprite off of him though.

nice, just signed up. Looking forward to it.