Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound as if he is brilliant--and clearly--most people thinking about approaching programming are far from starting a tech start-up at 30+... Much less 19!!!
I am obviously old enough to not have benefitted from a CS course in HS, is it did not exist. So, to have gone 8 paragraphs deep into this post and still there was no mention of a particular language or medium to learn left me quite dry. Again, not to take anything away... I'm just saying.
The way I learned to code... Codecademy/google tech talks/web/books: in this order. I decided to focus on Javascript because of ECMAScript 5, NodeJS++ gave JS a new look and promising future. Codecademy got me off and running fast but then I finished all the courses and still felt like I did not know sh1! The tech talks helped me understand the context of -this- and that. The books were for Ninja-hood.
I hope more people write about how they learned for those of us coming from other industries and majors. Perhaps I will blog of my travails of a bootstrapping, indie, tech start-up... At the moment, still busy playing catch-up and learning to code.
[Corrections] Really happy to see a post like this. It was an awesome post too... However, as an adult over 30 who just learned to code, I can say that it was not as helpful as it might have been, primarily because it makes the author sound as if he is brilliant--and he clearly is--most people thinking about approaching programming are far from starting a tech start-up at 30+... Much less 19!!!
I am obviously old enough to not have benefitted from a CS course in HS, as it did not exist. So, to have gone 8 paragraphs deep into this post and still there was no mention of a particular language or medium to learn left me quite dry. Again, not to take anything away... I'm just saying.
The way I learned to code... Codecademy/Google tech talks/web/books: in this order. I decided to focus on Javascript because of ECMAScript 5, NodeJS++ gave JS a new look and promising future. Codecademy got me off and running fast but then I finished all the courses and still felt like I did not know sh1! The tech talks helped me understand the context of -this- and that. The books were for Ninja-hood.
I hope more people write about how they learned for those of us coming from other industries and majors. Perhaps I will blog of my travails of a bootstrapping, indie, tech start-up... At the moment, still busy playing catch-up and learning to code.
I am obviously old enough to not have benefitted from a CS course in HS, is it did not exist. So, to have gone 8 paragraphs deep into this post and still there was no mention of a particular language or medium to learn left me quite dry. Again, not to take anything away... I'm just saying.
The way I learned to code... Codecademy/google tech talks/web/books: in this order. I decided to focus on Javascript because of ECMAScript 5, NodeJS++ gave JS a new look and promising future. Codecademy got me off and running fast but then I finished all the courses and still felt like I did not know sh1! The tech talks helped me understand the context of -this- and that. The books were for Ninja-hood.
I hope more people write about how they learned for those of us coming from other industries and majors. Perhaps I will blog of my travails of a bootstrapping, indie, tech start-up... At the moment, still busy playing catch-up and learning to code.