Are you just jumping without any real knowledge of programming? ✈📱👍💀

Question

Have you been coding for 1-2 years and am know how to hack some basics things together in a language or two, but am unsure how to polish these skills enough for a real job?
Are you just jumping in without ANY real knowledge of a programming language or the environment?

Answer 1

I'd recommend doing something like codecademy to practice a language or two, and reading Michael Hartl's "Learn Enough to be Dangerous" books along with the Rails tutorial. Those are all good ways to start building a foundation if you're completely self-taught, and there's likely many others other devs here will be happy to share.

If you're absolutely new, there's also six really important steps you can take here:

1. Get a specific idea of what you want to learn
2. Be enthusiastic about learning it
3. Ask!
4. Thank everyone who answers
5. Share your progress as you learn
6. Help others who also ask once you're far enough along to have some answers of your own