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by ggeorgovassilis 1318 days ago
I'm currently mentoring two people who started programming as a hobby after 30 and it's going really well.

Programming is about two things: dexterity with tools (editors, operating system, log analysers, code versioning etc) and conceptual thinking (abstraction, planning, problem framing, problem solving). If you are interested in starting with programming, I suggest you pick a topic you care about as a hobby and progressively become more serious about it:

- do you like web design? start a simple home page for a project

- do you like DIY electronics? start with embedded programming

- do you like gaming? start with one of the gaming engines

- do you like phone/tablet apps? start with a low-code platform

Also find someone to mentor you, ideally someone you can talk to in person or over a video chat.