I saw my first Unix prompt two years ago, nested inside of this editor called "Emacs." In my 23 years I had only programmed conditionals in Excel, and now I was responsible for using this system to maintain some of the most important econometric models in the world.
Fast forward to present day, where I'm writing linear classifiers in a Lisp dialect I had never seen before this weekend. I've previously built scrapers in Python, a website with Django, side projects with a bunch of technologies (R, JS, SQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc. etc.). I enjoyed working on all of these enough to start a graduate program in CS.
People start writing, running, painting, and working on other awesome trades at all ages. Coding shouldn't be any different. Click on pg's link to Codecademy, go check out MIT's introductory CS courses on OpenCourseware, and don't worry about how old you are!
Fast forward to present day, where I'm writing linear classifiers in a Lisp dialect I had never seen before this weekend. I've previously built scrapers in Python, a website with Django, side projects with a bunch of technologies (R, JS, SQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc. etc.). I enjoyed working on all of these enough to start a graduate program in CS.
People start writing, running, painting, and working on other awesome trades at all ages. Coding shouldn't be any different. Click on pg's link to Codecademy, go check out MIT's introductory CS courses on OpenCourseware, and don't worry about how old you are!