#solid advice

[braindamaged007]

[beeesworld]

Look, I've been a failure my whole life. It's not so bad once ya get used to it.

[viowlettcodes]

hi. i had a very similar experince to trying to look through the code camp scams and everything online and not living near anything useful. if you can find an online real college thats what i did, granted its a community college and an associates but. other than that, don't sleep on utilizing chatgpt to teach you. thats how i learn all of my material. you can ask it questions or say "can you teach me about x", and if you dont like its response you can say things like "make that more simple" or "make that interactive". but helpful tip, all programming languages basically do the same things and work in very, very similar ways. if you just learn the fundamentals of programming you can just translate that to any language. in my opinion, the basics to learn are: the structures of programming (sequential, conditional, iterative), variables, datatypes (integer, string, float, etc)(in python those are it), conditional statements(these are those if-else things you see), iterative aka loops(do..while, for x in list, do until, etc), functions(keep em one purpose), passing data. i would say these are the fundamentals. every language does it (besides html bc thats not a programming language but just a mark up language), so once you know about the conditonal structure for example, just find out "how do i use this in x language". if you are learning python now, its a great language to learn about programming and you've probably realized by now that people most often use it in an object oriented way, but you don't have to and don't have to learn about classes or objects if you don't have the fundamentals down yet. i hope this helps and if you have any questions feel free to ask me

Oh I 100% agree with this advice. After looking for a long, long time, I realised the most legitimate courses were from 'real' colleges and education suppliers that offered 'brick n mortar' schooling as well as e-learning.

I'm definitely going to utilise the free resources online and then work towards building a profile and generally seeing what the jobs online look for and work towards that alongside the usual path of learning :)

Also, I love how supportive folk generally are in this area of learning. I knew it would be competitive, especially when it comes to getting a job in a year or so...but seeing folk lift each other up instead of put each other down is heart-warming on so many levels. It makes me think I've found my correct career path :)

[nero-draco]

[wexler]

Evil - 3.05 “The Angel of Warning”

[butterforbrain]

He's exactly one tablespoon of Alec and Magnus each.

[heardatmedschool]

Resident: So, do you like surgery?

Student: ... not really?

Resident: That’s the worst answer you could’ve given. You will always love whatever specialty you’re rotating under, and you life will be easier. Even internal medicine *disgusted face*

[cityofjimmy]

Life is like a box of depression, you never know how depressed you’re gonna get.

[boredintjqueen]

Read it again.

[allelitesmut]

Don’t usually watch wrestling with my toddler but it started before bedtime tonight so he’s watching during dinner and keeps telling all the wrestlers that are laying on the mat to “wake up”

[braindamaged007]

[must-be-mythtaken]

@dduane gets it

[warweaselfiles]

[anna-neko]

im too lazy to make a proper gif set...

this damn "find another way to feel" has been living in my head rent-free for literal decades, and it has been....helpful actually

[tattoorue]

[mafaldaknows]

More great advice from Derek Blasberg

“When in doubt, jazz hands.”👋😆🕺✨

[with bonus Timmy content]