Published on: 2022-11-30
Written by Nathan Pulver
What I have learned
As mentioned in the home page of the coding section on my website, I began my coding journey first through some random youtube videos and then with some coursera classes. The specific coursera course I took was the IBM data science series. These were pretty nice if you know nothing about programming, but the first couple were rudimentary. I think if you need to learn the syntax of something you should use youtube videos or other free resources like freecodecamp.org or other great online resources. It can also be nice to follow a curriculum in a book. While I do not have any specific reccomendations personally, I found thriftbooks to be awesome for finding used to start getting free books, although you are limited to books under 5 won’t get you much but I got an old networking textbook free with this. Another great resource is MIT OpenCourseWare. There are so countless free courses from fantastic professors with assignments and recorded lectures to choose from. This is also a great way to stick to a curriculum.
Keep learning
The most important part is to keep learning. There is never a point where you will know everything. You will always be looking up how to do something new or for a new tool. This is ok. It does not mean you are a bad programmer or behind in any ways. It means that you are still learning (as is everyone else).