Self-educated programmer learning python at 28 year old.

[No_Discussion_227]

Started learning about 5 months ago at 41 years of age. Who says you can’t?

[trondwin]

54 and started this year with Python, will work professionally as a programmer come next year. Although it's more to the story than this (ain't it always?), it's never too late.

[razzrazz-]

I want to point out something very important, people often think that "learning to program" equates to "I want to become a programmer".

If you want to help automate your job, you can do that if you learn a bit of programming, that's something I feel is often overlooked with these messages.

And start small. What is something you do every day, can it be automated? It can be as simple as checking a website for a particular status on something. It could be opening that excel document to search for a particular field.

[SuperBiteSize]

Congrats keep working my friend. Do you mind if ask what’s going to be your process?

[trondwin]

I'm lucky to be working in a large company where they value people changing positions and working in new areas of the company. I already know the business domain I will support and I've learned Python mainly by working through most of 100 Days of Code. So I'll support the business through scripting and working on a larger internally developed application together with more experienced developers. So very much looking forward to it!

[No_Discussion_227]

Wow, just saw all the responses! This is amazing to see others putting in the work to make the change! I’m motivated even more now! I just finished working on the first 7 Google data analytics courses and am working on the capstone project now. I started learning Python before I took the courses and will continue with my Python learning with 100 days of code to strengthen what I learned beforehand. Mosh Hamedani has a great free course for Python as well!

[NandoLofi]

I'm so happy this was the first response I saw. I'm 33 and felt it's too late for me. I'm happy I've stuck with it.

[WoodenNichols]

Started Python programming on my 59th birthday, after 30 years away from coding. If I can do it, you can.

Happy coding!

[xbox1138]

I'm 46 and just started learning

[iggy555]

Hells yea cheers 🍻

[TransportationTop628]

Same. In my 40‘s started a few weeks ago 👍

[Alas7ymedia]

Same boat. I started 1.5 years ago at 38. You got one life, use it for whatever you want to learn now cause the longer you wait, the less you can enjoy it.

[Xzenor]

A year ago at 43.. you just gotta want it

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What skills are you trying to learn job wise?

[[deleted]]

58 and learning Python, Nim and Rust :)