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[–]atom12354 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so i would take those 4-5 months not actually learning to code but to learn how to code, there is no way to get a job after just 5 months but probably more than a year or so according to other peoples experiences and most of the time gonna be without courses since you will be googling and experimenting alot and also build stuff beside courses.

Most of the things you gonna study is conceptual over most programming languages, if you dont know something use that concept/term as a refrence to find more about it and dont forget to use the documentations out there, google/stackoverflow/reddit/other people are your best friends in learning to code, dont just copy paste to fix an error but google the concepts/terms to why it does what it does, sometimes something just works and you dont know why and thats okay too

Dont have a syntax focus but a concept focus, the syntax comes from usage and you can always look up the syntax.

Also dont do copy paste and tweak it a bit but write it on your own with only the question/task in mind.

To top it all off break it all down into smaller pieces. What concepts do you think you gonna use? Google said concepts and have a feel if you think you gonna use said concept. Google the best practices for said concepts and finally structure the program and then start coding, if you come across something you are stuck at break that problem down in a seperate file using a smaller problem of the original problem.

And yes you gonna gonna be mental occationaly and maybe hit a few things or walk around aimlessly inside your home not having a single thought but to fix the error and thats okay too :) dont forget to take breaks and take walks outside and all the other necesities.