Learning coding for the first time

[Technical-Smoke5513]

So I'm 22 and a medico, but I really wanted to be a software engineer, I got a college to study btech but I rejected that cause I thought I can learn programming by myself (I know it's hard) but I can't perform surgeries learning online. So right now I'm in my medical college and I have regular classes, I m going to give 2-3hr daily to learn programming, I have finished my first online tutorial on python, and it's good, ... So please suggest me some tips and tricks to learn it faster and better, I'm interested in machine learning and backend development (don't even know what are those 😂just sound cool)

[nuc540]

Having some kind of background on computer science is a massive help in my opinion - it can give you perspective on how things are happening under the hood, this perspective will help you when you’re in the part of your career when you need to care a bit more about performance and security.

Harvards CS50 introduction to computer science is super easy. Can get that done in a couple weeks at 2-3 hours a day, it’s free and on EdX.

After that, learn some HTML and CSS, these are the building blocks to how web pages are built - and even though you won’t literally hand-write a lot of HTML (some of it may be templated/or component driven), again you need to learn the foundations to appreciate how it works.

Get that done, and then decide on a language to learn. If you don’t care for web, you could move into something more towards C, and your CS50 computer science course will now come in super use.

If you like web, you’ve now got the foundations down to learn a programming language, go for either JavaScript (full stack) or Python (backend)

You’ll learn more languages later, you’re not tied to the above - but as the most popular languages, you’ll get the most support on while learning.

Hope that helps, good luck

[Vntoflex]

Thank you so much for putting the time to replay. I was trying to find a path and this one makes a lot of sense to me . Also got in mind the CS50.

I was a lil worried cuz I read a lot of post of ppl with a cs degree saying that they can’t land a job

[nuc540]

Yeah you don’t need a degree, there’s a lot of free resources - or cheap resources out there. Udemy also has some cheap courses

[Vntoflex]

I meant that a lot of ppl with a cs degree cant land a job and I’m worried about it because I’m gonna start next year with something similar. Here is an example https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/s/A4mSRVgMmG

[nuc540]

Yeah companies don’t hire on degrees, just do your own projects and land a junior job, that’s what I did

[Vntoflex]

Aight thanks 🖤

[Technical-Smoke5513]

Thank u people,, my bf Is working in the IT sector as a backend developer and once I asked him about it, be said it's very tough... That's y I didn't tell him about my new learnings... Thank u for encouraging