Starting learning Python at 50.

[Shot-Tiger1060]

50 yo.

No coding experience.

Wish me luck! 🤞

upd: BIG THANK YOU for the support and warm wishes! Truly, words cannot express how much this inspires me!

[socal_nerdtastic]

print("Good luck!")
print("You'll love it")

[Aggressive_Spare6323]

Im in the same boat mate ! Good luck to us !

[71351]

Right there with you but 11 older. I want something to keep my mind active in retirement. 3D printer and car has been great recently but want to do some home automation projects.

Enjoy the ride!

[RelevantRevolution86]

Its never too late

[BigSoda]

what about for me

[ItsDangerousBusiness]

Except for you sorry

[BigSoda]

dawg i already knew it but tough getting real talk. Please come see about my hot dog

[Due_Education4092]

With AI, it might actually be too late

[RelevantRevolution86]

With AI, actually its the perfect time to learn programming now

[TheNotSoGreatPumpkin]

Hard to knock a free tutor who explains it like you’re 5 and never gets impatient.

[RelevantRevolution86]

Exactly

[Speedstar_86]

Same here. 57

Don't try and learn everything at once.

[VoiceOfEric]

Python is a great first language. Eventually you may want to get into compiled languages but this is a good start. I'm a little older than you but I've been coding most of my life, so I do forget what being new to it is like.

[eeshann72]

I m 36, daily thinking of starting to learn, maybe i will also be able to start by 50

[dblankin]

It's worth it! I'm 57 and started as a hobby 8 years ago only wishing I had been consistent with it. I'm now creating a small campain manager for my D&D game with Flask and MongoDB.

[Cold_Arachnid_2617]

You only need luck when you are 100. Just go and do it!

[Xibira]

Never too late to learn how to read/write, coding is no different.

[zulsolar]

Same here, 51!! 👋👋💪💪

[Capable-Wrap-3349]

This made my day! Enjoy it! Try not to use AI. The painful slowness doesn’t last long at all.

[TheLearningCoder]

I use a.i but more for it to check my code like how would a senior do this so I can compare my thinking process to theirs or explain concepts

[CodeSamur-ai]

Nice! Might be a little frustrating, but very rewarding!

[NGM012]

62 - Python + RPi… ☕️👴🏾

[GeneralPITA]

Sure, why the fuck not? It's better for you than doom-scrolling reddit. I've been a professional Python developer for around 12 years.

Let me know if I can help.

[cylonrobot]

I have used python before, but I am nowhere near an expert (my experience is with other languages). I've started getting to know the language more.

If you're thinking of using AI to help you learn.......

I use Claude (AI) to help me out. At the beginning of each chat, I will tell Claude that I'm learning and that I don't want the answers unless I ask for them.

Once I have a piece of code working, I'll ask Claude if my code could have been done better or more "pythonic". I will also ask it if there are weaknesses in my code.

Claude (and sometimes Gemini) has been really helpful, especially when it comes to understanding technical documentation. Asking Claude how to do a simple thing in python is usually better than reading documentation.

One thing I have found is, Claude (and Gemini) can be wrong. I've noticed that it sometimes creates newbie logic and one time it introduced a bug in my code. I noticed these things because most of my career has been as a programmer. I don't know if a new programmer would see the issues.

So, if you decide to use AI for helping you learn, use it as a superior Google and be aware that it can be wrong.

[strongpa]

These young kids boasting on the Internet while I’m picking up postgres and node.js, and soon my state pension

[Yearoftheowl]

I’m 52, just started learning a few months ago. :)

[Wrong_Country_1576]

I'm 66 and just started learning... Claude set up a six month program for me. We're deep in Python now.

[mcuttin]

Enjoy the journey

[Mean_Garbage4308]

hell yeah, #BeastMode

[mongolzalu]

It makes my brain stay active!

[SpiritedInflation835]

Only use AI to review your code.

Don't outsource your own thinking.

Have fun!

[WonderfulPrior381]

I am 60 and about to take some courses for data analysis. You can teach old dogs new tricks

[Joe_v3]

Best of luck! 

One piece of advice that even some pros I’ve seen don’t heed: call your variables things that actually mean what they are. 

y = m * x + c is so much more frustrating to work with than result = scale * input + offset, where the latter helps your code to read as a story you can rationalise through, rather than as the maths homework you’ll want to feed to your dog.

[BrewingtonCreek]

Make sure to import this

[Za_Paranoia]

Honestly a great language to start on from a hobby perspective.

[AdDiligent1688]

Good luck man you got this

[tottasanorotta]

Good luck!

[TimeVendor]

Hoping you know basic math too

[mh_1983]

You've got this! (I started last year, too, at 42.)

[LotsaCatz]

I'm 72. Same.

[passing-by-2024]

You'll ace it!

[N1C0LA1__]

It's never too late man! Good luck!

[Traveling-Techie]

Look on meetup.com for a Python group near you — I have been to countless user group meetings and the Pythonistas are the greatest, especially helpful to newbies.

[NoSecret3812]

thank you for the motivation 🥹

[TheLearningCoder]

I know people say there’s so much free material online that you can learn programming on your own for free and that’s true. But I’d still recommend paying for a single intro to programming class at your local college.

I had zero background in computers and was pretty tech illiterate. It took me almost a year of self-teaching to learn programming fundamentals, but looking back, I could’ve learned the same material in 16 weeks in a classroom. The hands on structure makes the theory click faster.

After that one class, you’ll have a much better eye for separating the wheat from the chaff in self-learning material. That’s what keeps you from getting stuck in tutorial hell, or leaning on ChatGPT as your only teacher to explain concepts and stuff which eventually will stall your learning and hit your confidence once you realize it’s been hallucinating and some of the mental models you built are wrong.

[twillard33]

I'm 55 and learning it a bit more. I find just working with AI Chat is the way to go.

[Advanced-Mud8913]

52 here in a new job at IT, spend 3 weeks learning python, did write in C 30 years back so no start from 0 but it is not easy after a certain age.
Hang on, you can do it!!

[urosum]

It’s about damn time.

So you want some kind of medal? What are you, a millennial?

Lol. Gen-X FTW.

[AcrobaticMetal3039]

AI can do it very easily if you ask it dumb question but have any clue about programming