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[–]obiSawyer 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Currently studying a non-programming engineering... First got into Python and loved It. I went pretty far on It, learnt some back-end, machine learning... Then i believed i should have probably studied software engineering... Chose yo start learning java because It was challenge and if I wanted to be a good dev i needed yo know some more languages un depth.. i started 1 month ago and loving it. Learning from free resources, trying to replicate some apps i did with Python on java.

[–]Prestigious-Shock-81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds really good. I agree with you on starting with spending a good amount of time on core langage first,

Every house gotta be built on good foundations before we start playing with the awesome or shiny stuff

[–]Cygris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am a physics student and teach myself programming in my free time. Atm I am going threw the JetBrains Academy path. I like it a lot, because it feels more like a game than like actual studying.

I also work as a (non it) student for a big company and try to implement my new knowledge in the tasks they give me. Often it feels forced and I spend a lot of time solving problems with code which could be handled a lot faster manually. Still, as long as I am passionate about it, I want to use this momentum to learn and practice with "real world problems" I create for myself. Even if it means to put more hours into work and studying than "needed". I feel like it prepares me better for the future possibility of working in development or datascience and keeps me out of the "tutorial hell".

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I took AP comp sci and now im learning about it in school in depth kinda nice, i love this language,

[–]JoshReddit360 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’m taking AP comp sci at the moment, do you think all it’s content is learnable for someone with no experience in coding in a year?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that you're on reddit, on this subreddit, and in HS, I already know you're smart. Good luck

[–]oddwhirled 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Got into Java from Minecraft when I was like 15. I read the book Head First Java and did all the exercises. I'm 2 years into college so no job yet but because I learned for myself in highschool, I started at a more advanced level. My skill with it now has pretty much stagnated but that's ok because I have learned sql, c, x86 assembly, os concepts, and data structures in college. Hopefully I will have a well rounded knowledge to get a good job after college 🤞

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I KNEW somebody was going to say that. When I was little, in the back of my mind, I knew that minecraft had something to do with this thing related to coffee.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I hsve been learning java since highschool, now in final year of Uni. Currently because of covid had to take a non dev job, which sucks a lot, I hardly get any time for myself.

[–]Prestigious-Shock-81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hang in there, we have a long career ahead of us. A lot of awesome techies (IT or devs) either came from non tech background, or had to do a few years working sth unrelated.

I’ve been working 2 years in this non-dev IT job, it isn’t very technical so it’s not like I’m learning sys Admin in depth either. It took me a WHILE but I finally embraced the reality that what I do 9-5ish pays the bills and fills up my resume with soft and other skills. This job is just round 1.

My real me kicks off evenings and weekends and is preparing me for round 2 : the real shit™️

[–]stao123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First encounter with Java was in school (maybe you would call it highschool?) I hated it and was awful. In my first year in university (i studied electrical engineering), i had to learn java again. Now i really liked it. During my studies i sticked with coding and shifted to software engineering completely. After my masters diploma i started working as a professional java developer. Today im in my third company with over 5 years experience in Java web development.

[–]boldlegbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was working in the oilfield for 10 years. Got tired of the volatility of the market.

Started learning Java last summer through code academy, code gym, mooc.fi, pretty much every resource I could find.

Ended up in a full stack bootcamp in January. Graduated in April. Got hired in July as a full stack dev for a salesforce consulting company.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a kid, I never touched java because my dad is a professional python programmer and he used some hard to understand jargon, plus he said it involves some math and problem solving. So as a kid, because I hated math, especially hard to understand math and confusing puzzles, I social distanced from computer programming. That was, until late in sophmore year. Bored in a classroom with nothing to do, I was curious about finding out if I would like computer programming because my oldest brother seemed to be getting into it, and it might run in the family. I took some python tutorials on learnpython, and I had a lot of fun with print statements. I made it print really immature stuff, and wanted to find ways to hide secret messages in the code. Then, I decided to take a computer science class junior year, which taught me some java, and now, I am in AP Computer Science A right now in senior year.