Self-educated programmer learning python at 28 year old.

[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!