[gus_massa]

My wife used https://www.datacamp.com/ to switch language. Go there and start a course (IIRC they call them "tracks"). It should take a month or two. Then another, then another, ...

> Can someone at my starting point realistically reach expert-level capability in 5 years?

Who knows? The idea is to get more knowledge and understand better the tools. If you are already able to make useful programs that other people use it's already a huge step.

[bond_builds]

DataCamp is a good shout — I'll look at which track makes sense as a starting point. And I appreciate the honest answer on the 5-year question. "Who knows" is more useful to me than false certainty in either direction. The point about already having users is something I keep coming back to — it's the one thing that makes me think this isn't entirely wishful thinking. Did your wife find she needed to go through courses sequentially or did she jump to what was immediately useful?

[gus_massa]

She wanted to do the courses/tracks sequentially to complete them and get the certificate (IIRC you have to pay to get the certificate).

Now she is using Kotlin to make apps for the tablet of our kids, but she didn't take any course of Kotlin.

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