I'm 23.Am I too old to start to learn programming?

Question

I got a bachelor's of science from Maritime University. After 8 months of seaman life, I want to change my career. I know that I love computers. So I want to learn Programming. I started learning from Html & JavaScript. Am I too old? Can I make a career with computer programming? How much time I need to become a programmer?

Answer 1

You can learn on board in your free time (instead of watching a movie for example). Depending on your rank (on board, not SoloLearn) programming on a ship, can make a big difference.
Java comes preinstalled on shipboard computers most of the time (weather programs, antennae interfaces, voyage data recorders admin panels ecc... are mostly java based).
For the above Java would be your best bet.
Check out processing for a beginner friendly approach to java. https://processing.org
Keep your seaman job: it will give you a good salary and the possibility to develop your progrming skills, until a better job offer arrives.

one more thing studying on board helps in better handling, stress, lonliness and other seamen related issues.

Answer 2

I think that after this life you can't, but as @Than said, you can breath, again.

Anyway, in the career world things can be different, you can learn but... i don't know if you can work with your passion, so i will wait for an "expert opinion", i wish you luck!

Maritme University? If i remember correctly @Nikolay is a naval engineer, but maybe i'm wrong. =^=

Answer 3

My input:

You are young AF.

Answer 4

No. As long as you can breath, then you are not too old to learn programming. Good luck!

Answer 5

You're not too old for it. In fact people who are 24yrs old are the perfect ones. Why? because most of the people who turned 24 have fully developed their brain and fully matured. I am 21 years old, and I feel you. It's not only Time you only need here, it's Experience too. Time and Experience, that's all you need. How much time? 2 consecutive years would be enough to be an Advanced programmer.. What Experience? You need to accomplish something called like Thesis* Capstone Projects* thats that.. I hope this could help😊😊

Answer 6

Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook at age of 20. You are just 3 years behind...Hurry up.. Stop worrying, get started.

Answer 7

don't worry! I feel it to! I wish i had started programming sooner, but now I don't have enough time! it's never too late!

Answer 8

13 years old programmers are also being here. your too old.

Answer 9

There is no age to learn anything..😇

Answer 10

Dear friend it's too early to say that at 23yrs of age.You still have alot of opportunity and don't let yourself down. Learning has no margin of age and still you can learn and gain experience.Keep up the interest and the result will be success at the end.

Answer 11

While I personally don't know many programmers, I've seen webcasts and people that talk about learning code. One guy was a truck driver till his early thirties then went back to school and is now a senior programmer. Another guy started guy said he started at 26 and is now a web developer at the age of 27. He also mentions how the lead developer on his team graduated college at the age of 36 and is now a senior dev a few years later. Lastly, The average age for people learning on freeCodeCamp is 28 yrs old. If you have children, family, and full
time job, those are factors that thatmake it challenging, not age. Even with those factors, it is still very possible. These are just examples of older people relative to 23 years old. 40-110 years old is still a great age

to learn to code.

Answer 12

23 is certainly not too old for starting a second career. Maybe look for a master's degree where you can learn about coding and stuff and still can make use of the qualifications that you already have. Science and programming usually fits nicely together when it comes to statistics, physics, epidemiology, medical engineering, and alike.

Answer 13

it's never too late, there are people here who are 40+ and are learning

Answer 14

If you even ponder 23 as too old.. then what am I? Ancient?! 😲

Answer 15

It's definitely not too late! It's never too late, whether you're 20 or 60.

Even though many start at a young age, programming can be learned at any age and if you have passion and dedication, you can become decent enough in a relatively short amount of time that you might be able to turn it into a viable career.

Exhibit A: Myself. I studied environmental care with the full intention of going into that field. But after I graduated at age 22, about to turn 23 (the same age as you!), I got into programming big time and before I knew it, I was coding on a dailt basis. Granted, I HAD programmed before, but nothing major; back when I was15, I started to learn some Python but I never got any further than about what you can learn in SoloLEarn. I went through some tutorials and wrote a few simple pograms, but I had no idea how to apply that knowledge, no goals, so I idn't grow as a coder. I always had that in the back of my mind but it wasn't until I found a project that I was really passionate about (motion control) that it clicked.

Tutorials are a great place to start but what you really need to learn is how to constantly adopt new tech and tools, problem solving, being creative and applying learned knowledge into actual results. After about a year of coding daily (plaus having a good base knowledge about systes and technology), I had learned enough that I was able to get my first job as a Software Developer. I was competent in web and software with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and some of its key libraries, especially node.JS, CoffeeScript, Python and Linux. But I learned so much more about everything at my job; everyr day was a learning experience and I stayed humle and eager to ask for help and improve. I basically learned PHP on the job (having only known a little bit of it before) and so much about servers and systems.

Long story short; it's never too late. If you're passionate about something, work hard and you can make it happen!

Answer 16

Er, no.

Answer 17

no, you're not

Answer 18

Fighting! You are not too old to learn. You can learn more than programming. Keep ur seaman job and learn programming. Good Luck!

Answer 19

You are still young and you must be ready to learn more.

Answer 20

I think you are tooo yung. 🤡