So I want to learn Coding

[SadimirPutin]

read books

practice

put up small programs that you have done

write something useful for a charity that you support.....

opportunities will come

 

[Pyrexcup]

Why do people think coding is a quick way to get rich Ive said before on here shyt is hard. I'm in college for not even straight computer science and people are struggling and did so bad. Those coding camps are for the most bullshyt people who goes to those are people who already are good at coding or very smart they skew the stats to make it look like everyone gets a job. I remember reading a blog about camps and the person said you code 12 hours a day and the bad coders get kicked out

 

[ViShawn]

I would suggest something like code academy if you're really as autodidact as you mentioned.

Also learn Python first ! There's so much documentation and examples on it. I'm still learning too but I work in the tech field and surrounded by a bunch of people smarter than me in that regard.

Only issue with boot camps is that once you successfully acquire a job through one, they will take 20% of your salary or so for the first year so you have to determine if that's worth it for you.

I'm mid level in my career (Site Reliability Engineer) and I have stronger skill set to help me but programming would add 10-15K to my salary at my level I think so I would rather learn on my own.

Oh and go on GitHub and look at people's code. Create your own account and clone some of their stuff and improve on it.

The stuff you contribute put it out there to get suggestions and help as well.

 

[SadimirPutin]

oh and by the way coding is not some magic path to high income

many programmers will take years before they are good enough to seriously command six figure plus income.

thats why I said write something for a charity or write something that solves a problems that YOU have....

 

[Rozay Oro]

Why do people think coding is a quick way to get rich Ive said before on here shyt is hard. I'm in college for not even straight computer science and people are struggling and did so bad. Those coding camps are for the most bullshyt people who goes to those are people who already are good at coding or very smart they skew the stats to make it look like everyone gets a job. I remember reading a blog about camps and the person said you code 12 hours a day and the bad coders get kicked out

ANYBODY interested in a career in code should dabble in it first via free or very cheap tutorials first. shyt ain't for everybody. I like C# tho

 

[Will Ross]

Why do people think coding is a quick way to get rich Ive said before on here shyt is hard. I'm in college for not even straight computer science and people are struggling and did so bad. Those coding camps are for the most bullshyt people who goes to those are people who already are good at coding or very smart they skew the stats to make it look like everyone gets a job. I remember reading a blog about camps and the person said you code 12 hours a day and the bad coders get kicked out

This can be said about damn near anything. if you put in the work you will get reward.

 

[kevm3]

ANYBODY interested in a career in code should dabble in it first via free or very cheap tutorials first. shyt ain't for everybody. I like C# tho

Exactly, there's enough free information out there to get anyone started.

 

[FSP]

This can be said about damn near anything. if you put in the work you will get reward.

People lie about how hard becoming a coder/programmer/developer is.

 

[Rozay Oro]

People lie about how hard becoming a coder/programmer/developer is.

Most people are too lazy and intimidated

 

[kevm3]

People lie about how hard becoming a coder/programmer/developer is.

The basics aren't as intimidating as they seem, but depending on what you're coding, it can be very difficult, and coding used to be A LOT harder when C/C++ and assembly were the main languages and ides weren't nearly as robust as they are now. Game programming is one area that is a ton of work.

 

[FSP]

The basics aren't as intimidating as they seem, but depending on what you're coding, it can be very difficult, and coding used to be A LOT harder when C/C++ and assembly were the main languages and ides weren't nearly as robust as they are now. Game programming is one area that is a ton of work.

Learning frameworks, combing over documentation, technical vocabulary, efficient design strategies, writing applications, debugging, etc. I could go on but it's difficult especially when I'm also fighting with my 8 year old cpu to not implode on itself

 

[Pyrexcup]

This can be said about damn near anything. if you put in the work you will get reward.

No it can't these type of threads are made every other month and it's always random posters talking like they know. If you are naturally good then yeah you will eat if not you won't make it. There is a reason why compsci drop out rate is so high either the maths filters people out or the actual programming and the same reason the salary is so high interns at top companies earn almost 10k a month.

 

[New Username]

Udemy have a sale for courses ATM for $10

 

[Mr Rager]

Can anyone speak to a typical day to day as a developer/engineer? I don't want to get into a field that grinds you out. I've also heard that job security in the field is iffy, any opinions on that?

 

[WheatThins]

i think it's a good way to become a decently paid worker that will probably get paid the same/less as time goes on without other relative skills to tie with it due to market over saturation, everyone codes nowadays.

been web developer for +5 years now and starting to see salaries drop. also companies favor younger employees. so really depends on your goals and what kind company you want to work for.

i also think the stats for those schools are overstated. becoming decent/good at javascript is more than a year long process and that's just to get the basics. i also think being a pure coder suffers from burn out, overworked in monotonous environment. that's why I say couple it with something else as well

plus you will just be setting up a cycle of learning code forever. technology changes all the time

Please don’t learn to code