Learn to code from zero, the honest way.
I came to coding the slow way as an adult, fighting a real math gap the whole way, degree and all. This is everything I learned about which tools, habits, and shortcuts actually work, written by someone who lived it.
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- I Have a Programming Degree and Still Felt Behind: An Honest Account
Scattered exposure since the 90s, a late degree, and leaning on AI to do the job. Here is the honest version of learning to code as an adult, and why none of it disqualifies you.
- Learning to Code When You're 'Bad at Math': What Actually Matters
I fell years behind in math through a school-system gap, and still learned to code. Here is which math actually matters for programming, and how I rebuilt the rest from zero.
- Sololearn vs Codecademy: Which Should You Actually Start With?
I used both as a self-taught adult beginner. The honest difference, who each is for, and which to pick if you can only choose one.
- I Learned French by Copying Spy Novels by Hand. It Works for Code Too.
A strange self-teaching method I borrowed from a Johnny Depp story about Hunter S. Thompson, and how the same trick helps you absorb code.
- The D20 Dice Method: How I Drilled Mental Math From Hopeless to Automatic
I was so bad at mental math I added by counting up one number at a time. Here is the homemade dice method I invented to fix it, and how you can copy it.