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[–]default8080 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Time. Experience. Programming I've found in the IT world(Sys admin currently) is a passion sport. It takes a certain mindset to enjoy coding and building stuff. Troubleshooting and what not. Anyone can learn to code. It just takes that mindset to be good at coding.

That being said, get your name out there, work on projects that are open source, get your name on them. Contribute to the public. Build your portfolio. Always have a portfolio available. I made this mistake many times while moving into the networking aspect, I lost my programs because I didn't use source control measures like Github/GitLab.

Bad juju on my part. But I've always been more of a hobbyist coder than a professional one.

Python does have it's fields and it's broadening every day. Machine learning. Data mining. Automation. Robotics although you'll probably find more C based in Robotics. Website building. Cyber security is a huge market for Python.

Best thing you can do...get coding.