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by kmack 4825 days ago
I'm currently finishing my last year in university and will be graduating next month with an economics major. It was only recently after thinking up a project that I thought would be awesome to build, did I even begin to get interested in coding but I can safely say I've found something that I truly enjoy and want to invest my time into learning.

My major sources of motivation are the hopes of making myself more marketable in terms of getting a job after university and the motivation of having a project that I want to see built
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sherm8n 4825 days ago
For making yourself more marketable are you talking in terms of getting a job as a developer? It may take up to a year of learning how to code before you can answer useless programming interview questions. If you start as a freelance developer you only need to convince the client that you're able to deliver the project. They won't ask you any programming questions.

What's preventing you from learning how to code right now and building your project?

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kmack 4825 days ago
I suppose there's nothing really stopping me other than thinking the project might just be too big to even attempt right now.

I've been working through a few books as well as the standard online exercises and am now looking at a program like dev bootcamp or app academy to really accelerate the leraning process

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sherm8n 4825 days ago
I have friends that have gone through some of the programs. Feel free to contact me if you want to get into the details - http://blog.goodsense.io/contact/
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kmack 4825 days ago
great thanks, messaged
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kmack 4825 days ago
Wouldn't that be a good place to start learning then? Without a community of people now to push me and work through problems with me, wouldn't a school of sorts be the perfect place to get those things?
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sherm8n 4825 days ago
The problem with books and online exercises is that when you get stuck you want to give up. It's hard to motivate yourself to push through. Unless you have awesome friends who have the patience to help, who will be your mentor?

The programs you mentioned are great. But it's still just like going to school.

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