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learned to code at 30 here after a previous life in finance. doing well 4 years on. if i can help anyone in this thread just reply!
Do you code professionally? My gf wants to get a job as a programmer and is about 30 too
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I learned to code at 28 and have been doing it professionally for 10 years now. Coding is easier than it used to be. I don't think an age limit applies.
Yeah, I'm not worried about learning to program but about companies not hiring her as a junior/trainee because of lack of experience at her age
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> Over time it can cause damage to the ventral what pathway to the point of complete speech impediment, memory loss and even Alzheimers. This sounds like complete guff to me. Citation sorely needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_aphasia Speak to a neuroscientist if you don't believe me.
Your source doesn't support your assertion. It lists the more common causes as:
* Stroke or brain anoxia.
* Brain tumor
* Brain trauma
And is shows less common causes as:
* Autoimmune disease
* Paraneoplastic syndrome
* Micrometastasis
* neurodegenerative disorders
* Certain infections (e.g., Bartonella henselae[19])
* Metabolic disease (e.g., hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state[20])
Yeah so first off - great! It's a super rewarding skill to have and I'm grateful to be a programmer myself. Turning that skill into your profession is going to be tough. I say this because I've been programming professional for 20 years or so and I'm currently interviewing. The process of getting a coding job has gotten extremely hard and demanding. 5-8 years back it was solely based on the interview; if you knew you…
I like a lot of other enterprise devs know if I studied for a few weeks for the interviews I could get a foothold into that universe, but it's just... meh. Not worth it. I like my life.
I'm in this boat. Finally started programming in 2018 at age 38 after a lifetime of playing around with computers as a hobby (thanks, dad!) and a first career in a completely unrelated field, as an attorney. The linked article is about learning for pleasure, but there are also challenges associated with trying to enter the field as a second career. The technical complexity, of course, and the scale of what needs to b…
If you don't mind me asking, why would one give up a cushy, well paid attorney career and choose software engineering? Software engineering compensation _tops out_ below where an experienced attorney compensation _begins_. The least I've ever paid a lawyer was $250/hr.
And keep in mind there are a lot of people who enter fields like law because it's the "default" thing to do if you're a good student who doesn't know what they want out of life yet.
Lots of lawyers out there who are at best bored, and at worst filled with revulsion about their day job. That's not a dig on law, but societal expectations.
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If you don't mind me asking, why would one give up a cushy, well paid attorney career and choose software engineering? Software engineering compensation _tops out_ below where an experienced attorney compensation _begins_. The least I've ever paid a lawyer was $250/hr.
IANAL but just to point out a couple obvious points: - the lawyer doesn't receive the full 250, half of it(?) goes to business/partnership - afaik many lawyers under-bill their hours, i'm not sure why (beyond "competition") but it's a common practice - the job itself may not be enjoyable at some point and you may desire more creative pursuits
- Many Lawyers under bill for fear of losing/surrendering their license [1] or squeeze in their Model Rule 6.1 hours [2]
- I'm seeing more lawyers amass some wealth, get burnt out, and then jump over to more creative or altruistic endeavours with less stress; can't blame them.
[1] https://www.thelawforlawyerstoday.com/2019/12/4739/
[2] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources...
There's something about games as your motivation for learning to code that is quite unfortunate: Games, especially the popular ones, are monstrously difficult to write. And I say this as a C++ HFT guy who's written a load of programs for all sorts of other things. - Games will break your OOP tutorial learnings. If you're starting out with a game, it is gonna get mighty difficult to fit whatever it is into a set of ob…
I know composition vs. inheritance is a nuanced debate, and there are people who can tell me exactly how to do inheritance the right way and why they feel it's better -- but after I learned how much cleaner composition feels I went with it and never seriously looked back.
I'm having a difficult time believing that someone picked up coding and is proficient in doing so at 40 years old unless they had prior experience in something that was similar. It takes years to become proficient in coding to the point where you don't utilize massive amounts of executive function (which we have a finite amount of in any given day). In addition the act of reading and writing code does a ton of damage…
I started programming at 39 1/2. (well except for a year or two of BASIC when I was a teen). I've been doing it professionally for 9 years now and I turn 50 next spring. No brain damage noted yet.
I'm assuming you haven't dabbled in the modern JS ecosystem then.
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> Over time it can cause damage to the ventral what pathway to the point of complete speech impediment, memory loss and even Alzheimers. This sounds like complete guff to me. Citation sorely needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_aphasia Speak to a neuroscientist if you don't believe me.