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This appears to be an Ad for free code camp (not that there's anything wrong with that). Just ten years younger in a similar boat, I'm neither taking a boot camp, nor writing about my "CIS". To each their own. Learning is a life long activity. It shouldn't matter what one learns at any age.

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Maybe I'm having trouble parsing your comment, but it is not readily apparent if you're critical or in support of the post. Could you clarify your statement?

Maybe he's just sharing first-thoughts.. not everyone feels compelled to immediately decide on their lightning-quick "critical/supportive" judgment as a top priority.

Especially our seasoned "best-agers"!! =)

It's hosted by "freecodecamp.com". Yes, of course it's going to be an ad for their offerings, if only in the sense of making them look good.

This is kinda like objecting that Google blog posts are really ads for Google.

"News is something someone doesn't want you to learn about. All else is propaganda."

Nice quote!

I qualified my comment by adding this . :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAyQAkXajg

So, there was no objection.

Perhaps it really is an ad, but if it is real, I am impressed that the person thinks at 56, he has enough runway in life to make a serious contribution by coding :-)...I like that attitude.

why wouldn't he? plenty of folks much younger than me have made 'serious contributions' in far less time than I have.

I'm growing old too and I find it hard to motivate myself to take up new things that are very long term -- somedays I wonder what is the point in learning a new programming language or framework and I am nowhere as old as him. Which is why I liked his attitude. It's refreshing and inspiring.

If he is in good health, he is almost certainly right to think this...

Who said that he needs to make a serious contribution? Maybe he gets a well paying job and produces good work for a decade.

It's not unrealistic to suspect that at age 56 someone could code for 25 years or more. Retirement is more and more of a myth anyway these days...I mean social security ain't going to pay for a condo overlooking the 7th fairway and trips to Europe.

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