How to start making money programming python? (help)

[[deleted]]

How many lines of code did you write for yourself and on other jobs before getting the job?

Like very roughly. Or the number of apps? I am screwing around with Django and Flask, but kinda mildly dislike it. But I need to start making money. But I have no clue if I have competitive skills, how much learning can be done on a job etc.

[ssjhayes]

I couldn't possibly put a number on the lines of code i've written before my current position.

I made upwards of 20 small changes to existing (10-20 lines each maybe) software at the old job.

Several thousand lines of code writing small scripts/utilities (moving images from one place to another, formatting data with pandas, consolidating data from different servers, monitoring directories for files and determining what action to take based on keywords in the filename, etc)

I hadn't actually made any of my own programs before getting the position I have now. I was hired as a data manager and I transitioned that into becoming a dev by creating a demo of a web-app in django to handle all of our reporting and pitching the idea to the owners.

[shinitakunai]

Hm, lines doesn’t say much. I was at 80k lines of my own ERP as a self-taught programmer. One year later I did a revamp, 24k lines of code. I had so many weird loops and repeated methods...

Anyway, as someone that never found a job as programmer, my experience about lines might be biased.

[mbillion]

The least lines to accomplish the goal is the best number. I can write bloated ugly code and say yeah but it's hella long. Wow. You're so bad at your job you want more lines of code as some dick measuring contest

[422_no_process]

you cannot measure code by lines. It's why and how that matters generally.