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This part stood out to me: > Every weekday - 1 hour post work > Every weekend - 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday each > Done over 4.5 months, so total = 234 hours As an almost-40-year-old that has minor coding experience (but wants to do / learn more) I find that time is the component that's the most difficult to overcome. I have a wife, a 5 year old, a house... all of which require time. Getting 4 hours _per day_ on a…
However, I wasn't driven by the desire for my own business or career growth etc (nothing wrong with being driven by those - I do like money very much). The driving force that kept me going was that I absolutely loved programming. It is probably the one enduring thing that I never outgrew. I guess that is why many many years later, I'm still coding. And I still love it.
I have a slightly cynical view about this sort of thing, and assume that most might have some counter-arguments for why my cynicism is misguided. I get that the point of the post is to encourage others, but proclaiming to have "learned how to code" feels misleading because there is no real finish line for it. This is an open-ended skill, there is no such thing as being done with it, same with most other skills. Maybe…
This part stood out to me: > Every weekday - 1 hour post work > Every weekend - 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday each > Done over 4.5 months, so total = 234 hours As an almost-40-year-old that has minor coding experience (but wants to do / learn more) I find that time is the component that's the most difficult to overcome. I have a wife, a 5 year old, a house... all of which require time. Getting 4 hours _per day_ on a…
What you're quite likely to have is half an hour every day, and if you do some study for a short amount of time daily, the hours will very quickly add up
My experience with learning how to code, is just find some good guide, follow it TO BUILD A REAL USABLE PRODUCT. Learning by making a real usable product is the most important part here, other kinds of learning didn't work for me. P/S: This is different from learning by project. Project mostly is for fun, not a real usable product.
I suspect that most of what is coding (ie, logic) is pretty intuitive, and only obfuscated by environmental factors like learning syntax, obscure jargon, and especially learning to execute code in your head. However, it's been a long time since I learned to code myself and my own learning experience is lost to the mists of time, so I'd really love to hear from people who are either learning right now or have recently…
I learned about 8 years ago and I think the first, hardest part is grasping the fundamentals - firstly data structures and algorithms. Things like visualizing the storage of data types in variables and using them later. Things like when you create a variable you create an empty box and assigning something to that variable is like putting the variable in the box. A tool to be able to visualize what an array of tuples…
How come people forget Critical Thinking? It's obvious Critical Thinking helps to learn programming.
I started at 37 and got my first full time job a couple of months after I turned 38. I was a lawyer and hated it - now I love going to work every day. But it wasn't easy. I was working full time in a demanding profession and I'm married with two kids under 5 years old. So basically I spent every free moment I had working on learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript. If my kids were asleep, I was coding. I basically had to burn th…
One thing I've noticed as a self-taught programmer is that concepts get really, really fancy names for simple things and it kinda acts as a barrier. That said one of the hardest part s of programming on a team so far has been making names that make sense, so, some sympathy there.
I started at 37 and got my first full time job a couple of months after I turned 38. I was a lawyer and hated it - now I love going to work every day. But it wasn't easy. I was working full time in a demanding profession and I'm married with two kids under 5 years old. So basically I spent every free moment I had working on learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript. If my kids were asleep, I was coding. I basically had to burn th…
It's not a bad thing to have a professional career before programming. I'd imagine that you'll have developed some non-technical skills that some developers lack, to be blunt about it.