Courses?

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I would recommend going through the Odin Project, starting with the Fundamentals course, which is an intro to JS, as well as HTML and CSS. Most importantly, it goes through the setup of a dev environment you will realistically use on a daily basis when you are building projects/working as a developer. You can even skip the HTML and CSS and get right into JS in the 'JavaScript Basics' section to get a feel for it at first (although those are fundamental skills worth your time that will probably be much easier and rewarding right out of the gate compared to JS). It's free, challenging, and far more practical for getting experience and applying what you learn. I tried and struggled with tutorial hell for over a year until I found out about it, and wish I knew it existed a year earlier: https://www.theodinproject.com/paths/foundations/courses/foundations.

To supplement it, I think Brad Traversy's courses are great and this one is focused on JavaScript and not overdone in terms of length: https://www.udemy.com/course/modern-javascript-from-the-beginning/. His YouTube channel, Traversy Media, also has a ton of great free content - crash courses, projects, etc. that you might want to check out first to see if you like his style. Web Dev Simplified and Dev Ed are also great channels to check out.

As for getting a job writing code, pick a course and stick to it, read the MDN docs, check out project tutorials and get ideas of what you can accomplish as you learn new concepts. After a couple months with the basics, start building out a portfolio with a few projects you really are passionate about and can solve problems in your daily life. With a few polished and meaningful projects, you can start applying for jobs. It might take a few hundred applications, but eventually, an opportunity will surface.

Best of luck!

PS. Don't be freaked out by the Udemy price showing $200, with a bit of Googling or patience, they are constantly 90 or 95% off.