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So in a nuthsell I'm 32, been in IT for just over 10 years, the last 4 years on my own acting as an outsourced IT manager / team to ~12-15 business clients. I didn't finish matric and there wasn't any $ for me to study post school, but I taught myself everything I could & got a IT job in the 'Tech Cave' at an IT retail co for 2 years, before my manager recommended me to a national company who serviced the home & business market, where I learnt more on the network side etc over 3years.
So now, I want to learn to code, not only for my own nerdy interest, but also I feel it will help me automate parts of my business (eventually) and hopefully in 3-4 years I'll be able to go back to corporate, but as a coder while I have 1-2 guys run my current business. I would also consider working remotely , coding for a company if such a opportunity comes along down the line.
I'v started with Code.org's "Pre reader" (lol) classes upto the point of where they show actual code , which I'v memorised & write out in NotePad++ , before checking inside of the Code.org lesson IE below. So far I'v been spot on 97% of the time, with the only initial errors being that I forgot the 'for' a few times, and the space before the { in the 1st line.
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for (var count = 0; count < 4; count++) {
moveNorth();
MoveWest();
Collect();
}
##& things like
for (var count = 0; count < 3; count++) {
moveRight(50);
jumpUp(50);
moveLeft(50);
}
for (var count2 = 0; count2 < 3; count2++) {
moveleft(50);
jumpUp(50);
moveLeft(100);
}
/*
jumpUp(50);
*/
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TL;DR - I want to learn to code, I have no real clue yet as to if I want to go into frontend, backend, fullstack or what ever else there may be. For now I feel that learning Java, Python and HTML will be a good start, what are the actual coders thoughts? I can dedicate 1.5hrs 6 days a week to this, which I'v been pretty good at for the last 2 weeks. This equates into ~470hrs by the end of the year.
So now, I want to learn to code, not only for my own nerdy interest, but also I feel it will help me automate parts of my business (eventually) and hopefully in 3-4 years I'll be able to go back to corporate, but as a coder while I have 1-2 guys run my current business. I would also consider working remotely , coding for a company if such a opportunity comes along down the line.
I'v started with Code.org's "Pre reader" (lol) classes upto the point of where they show actual code , which I'v memorised & write out in NotePad++ , before checking inside of the Code.org lesson IE below. So far I'v been spot on 97% of the time, with the only initial errors being that I forgot the 'for' a few times, and the space before the { in the 1st line.
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for (var count = 0; count < 4; count++) {
moveNorth();
MoveWest();
Collect();
}
##& things like
for (var count = 0; count < 3; count++) {
moveRight(50);
jumpUp(50);
moveLeft(50);
}
for (var count2 = 0; count2 < 3; count2++) {
moveleft(50);
jumpUp(50);
moveLeft(100);
}
/*
jumpUp(50);
*/
-------------------------------------------------
TL;DR - I want to learn to code, I have no real clue yet as to if I want to go into frontend, backend, fullstack or what ever else there may be. For now I feel that learning Java, Python and HTML will be a good start, what are the actual coders thoughts? I can dedicate 1.5hrs 6 days a week to this, which I'v been pretty good at for the last 2 weeks. This equates into ~470hrs by the end of the year.
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