Is there a “traditional background” for programmers anymore?

Sep 5, 2022

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Advice for people thinking about getting into programming

Learn hello world
Go through a codeacademy or similar interactive course
Try to build something on replit or glitch where you don't need an actual environment set up
Connect with other new devs on Twitter
Use https://exercism.io/ to get feedback about your code, don’t work in a silo
https://roadmap.sh/

How to pick a language or stack to start with in 2022

Programming languages are tools
Some are more commonly used to build specific things
- JavaScript/TypeScript - web (started as front end, now is also backend, is what browsers run), iot, drones, most things support javascript (Airtable, lambdas, google sheets, etc.)
- HTML/CSS - web (front end only, structure and style)
- Python - web, data, machine learning
- Ruby - web, small utilities
- PHP - web
- C#/F# - enterprise, windows, azure, games like X-Box
- Go - CLI tools, scalable servers and large-scale programs
- Elixir - web, event-driven systems, distributed systems
- Java - enterprise tools
- SQL - data only, not for building applications
- R - data
- Fortran, COBOL, VBA, objective-c, Perl - I would not invest much in learning these unless it was required for a job I was already hired at
CJ says - learn javascript, but then I say learn ruby and ruby on rails
Whatever you decide, stick with it until you feel comfortable building decent working applications

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Other mentions

Product school - https://productschool.com/

Black tech pipeline - https://blacktechpipeline.com/

wnb.rb - https://www.wnb-rb.dev/

codeacademy - https://www.codecademy.com/