Can you succeed in coding without really trying?
Photo by Sai Kiran Anagani “So how does one learn to code?” “I just want to build an app quickly. What do I need to learn?” “I want to build a website for my photography business. Can’t be that hard, right?” “I signed up for a course that says I can learn to code in thirty days. Can I really?” Almost everyone I speak to when they find out I write code for a living. A quick Google search of ‘how to code’ or ‘how to code without a computer science degree’ will yield a myriad of step-by-step quick solutions on how to be a coding wizard in a matter of days. There are websites like Lynda and Treehouse in which you can learn to code for a small subscription. Some people spend years at University studying programming. Some people are self-taught. All of them are valid. But what people fail to consider is that no solution is perfect. For some people, they could watch a couple of online tutorials and become a coding master. For most, that’s not necessarily pl...