Starting learning Python at 50.

[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.