Question: How'd you get into development?

3 pointsSmushyTaco3 comments

I've always been curious how people have gotten into development so I thought I might as well ask.

I loved video games as a child and I said I wanted to make video games. In HS I took the only 2 Programming classes but somehow didn’t study it in college...? 4-5 years after graduating I started self learning with Codecademy and others. 4-5 years after that I took an online full stack boot camp with General Assembly and got a job 2 months later.

Of course throughout my life I’ve been very interested in tech, used Linux for many years, and was unknowingly practicing a lot of the foundational skills needed to be a good dev.

I've actually been wanting the get into development. Any recommendations?

Teach yourself what you can, which is primarily limited by your ability/motivation to self-teach, using free sources like Codecademy, team treehouse, etc.

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