Any advice for 26 year old dude wanting to get really good really fast? I need to be career ready asap. Please and thank you!

Question

I really want to improve my coding skills as rapidly as possible. I'm already 26 so I think I'm already a bit late in the game lol.

Answer 1

The key to being good is being practice and time.code in your favourite languages often,devore much time to coding,its as simple as that

Answer 2

I was in your position last year (also 26!).I was already familiar with coding concepts (variables, loops, how to solve rudimentary problems) but struggled to produce much more than that.

I'd highly recommend buying a course on Udemy or similar, they're usually on sale for £10/15 or so. I did a C# unity course, one of the most popular on the site and it was super helpful to start building stuff and getting all my code talking to each other. Also look online for interview questions. This will prepare you once you do go to interview but they also help you identify gaps in your knowledge, as well as introducing you to key libraries. A couple of months later I landed a job as a Java developer :)

Get the basics, practice some problems (also check out project euler or similar) and I'd definitely say do a course, it should accelerate you lots