Ask HN: Anyone who learned to code for the first time after 2020?

7 points·curious16··6 comments

From where did you learn to code? Multiple resources?

What language did you use?

What projects have you built till now?

I started in January 2023, here are the resources I use: https://github.com/woadray/bootcamp

I didn't know UCB had such good courses available entirely for free, including videos.

Do you have any course suggestions for studying Operating Systems, Databases, and Computer Networking?

Also, I wanted to ask if it's worth self-studying the entire (most of it) CS undergraduate curriculum or if it makes more sense to invest in learning development tools and frameworks, get a job ASAP, and learn this theory on the go.

OS: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Databases: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/ | https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/

Computer Networking: No idea

No it's not worth it, learn the basics and go write code and build stuff.

Curious, but what do you find the most difficult or confusing so far in your journey?

Math :)

I'm pre-2020 but freecodecamp.com was the resource I used and it's still a good one today. Maybe even better. Even if you aren't going to do web development as a main focus, it's the quickest and most universal way to whip up a UI at this point, so it pays to know web tech, and the basics of programming are similar across disciplines. If I may butcher a metaphor, you're going to be learning the ABCs at first, so it doesn't matter much what genre you're hoping to write.

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