Memes aside, can someone in his 30s "learn to code" and become a programmer?
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No, give up grandpa you're never going to make it. Programming is like Piano or Violin, the only people good at it started when they were 5.
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You'll be fine
Absolutely this. You have to start young or it won't stick.
Wow I hope you've had tons of sex before hitting 30 or you'll never be able to be decent at it. Brains just stop accepting any new information after 30.
Yes, it is just a more saturated industry than it was 10 years ago.
Anyone past the age of 30 who wants to learn to code is only doing it because they think they'll make $60,000+ a year. You'll never be good at programming if that's your motivation (and let's be honest - it 100% is your motivation).
If you haven't had sex at least a couple hundred times when you're in your early 20's, you haven't even had a relationship.
It's actually to be scientifically proven that your genome slows down your brain exactly a day before you are 30.
>you haven't even had a relationship.
This is true.
maybe if you're a burger
That sounds like most of the kids n college for that kind of degree
God I wish that was me
you probably don't have the discipline
Steve Jobs started programming in his 60's and look what he accomplished.
It's absolutely possible if you have the aptitude. I went to uni at age 28 and I'm 34 now and I'm doing fine.
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You can lean in no time but getting a job will be really hard compared to the others who learnt it in school.
You're above 30, no work experience in the field and you already have a life perhaps so you're not as flexible as somebody fresh out of school.
This depends where do you live, what kind of job offers are there, but I'm sure you'd need some friends to get a job unless it's some small and desperate company who wants to hire anyone.
But hey, anything is possible in this world. If that's your dream (and not only because you think you'll have 60,000$ salary) then go chase it, nobody's gonna stop you.
Go for it OP. Lots of people change careers in their 30s.
>trash first post
You'd be surprised to know adults actually pick up an instrument a lot faster than kids. The real difference is that adults hardly have the amount of time as kids to practice. Age is not as important as persistence.
yes its just important to not get discouraged by all those kids that have been doing this since they were 12
My first bachelors was industrial engineering and I worked as a manufacturing engineer. I got tired of layoffs and furloughs, went back to school for a CS degree, and changed careers two years ago, at 38 years old. I'm now a mid level software engineer (mid level because I stayed at the same company) at 40. I now make ~$25K more than I did as a manufacturing engineer, can work from home when I need to, and my dick grew by 3 inches.
is that why pajeets still keep trying and failing like shit?
>hey guys, can i learn how to ride a bike at 30?
>yes, but don't be discouraged by all those kids that have been riding since they were 5
Zoom zoom dissappoints.
I started at 32 and I'm 34 now with a job as front end web dev in my city. You can do it OP.
Get into infosec. You'll need prog but as a boomer me guess you already have the soft skills
i know a carpenter who decided to learn C# when he was 44. He's a professional programmer now.
Don't let the retard /v/ kids convince you that you can't learn new shit. It takes more time and dedication, but you still learn.
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please stop flooding the market with retards
I've had 3 relationships, by the third girl telling me sex was a no go I just gave up dating.
If the market is flooded with retards and you ask people to stop it, it must mean they do so with some success.
>front end web dev
OP said a programmer, not a website codemonkey designer, you are barely a step up from an "HTML developer".
In the worst case scenario you can end up making boring eCommerce PHP sites for the rest of your life.
Memes aside you can do whatever you want. Just find what you want to do and learn a language that is the most common in that field
>web development is not valid development
>only c++ hax0r3rs are valid programmers
How can I tell you have no social skills and suck at life in general?
tfw you will never never never never touch that
why is it like this. why is everyone in CS just a bunch of moneywhoring retards who can't even write batch files? why do they even try to make it? is it purely money hunger and greed?
It takes years and years to be proficient at coding, you might not ever get to the point where you can just scroll thousands of lines of code and tell whats going on.
At least try to improve your social ineptitude, aspie.
>mfw classmates call HTML a language
Sure, the problem is, that the type of person that would be able to pull that off, generally does that before even becoming an adult.
If you didn't feel even the slightest bit of interest in it as a child, you probably won't make it.
If you simply didn't know about it back then, then the story is obviously completely different.
You should have a rough idea about what to do with your programming knowledge, though, and fit your learning itinerary to that.
yes. programming is easy. the math will be the hard part if you don't have a background.
HTML is a language. It's even in its fucking name.
Not a programming language, but I seriously hope your classmates weren't implying that.
anecdotal evidence
You "can" learn to code at 30 to be a bottom tier wagecuck that competes for a job with kids and pajeets
>math will be the hard part
No.. if it was I wouldn't have a job.
>zoomers feeling threatened by boomers learning to code
that's pretty funny
>HTML
>HyperText Markup Language
>Markup Language
>Language
ok retard
Yes, assuming you stop making excuses for yourself.
It is a language though you sub 70 IQ retard.
No, after 25 it's imposible
Just because you can't doesn't mean others are like you.
easier to get into networking. It-support pays well enough and can lead to network administration down the line, and which can pays extremely well.
Tfw I will be 25 in few months and still never learned to code.
Never gonna make it.
Yes, programming is easy. It's just like any other job skill that you have to learn, sometimes complicated, but that's any job skill that isn't menial labor or bullshit make-work women jobs.
>entire generation of zoomers parroting "HTML is not a prog language haha!" because they think it makes them look smart
>btfo by one based boomer
Agreed. Apparently a lot of people here are brainlets who couldn't learn programming if they had started a few years later.
Going by his definition of "programming language", even natural languages are programming languages.
I don't think that's helpful. For fuck's sake, this very sentence is a "function of 'For'" in his eyes.
Keep seething
>sentence(infinitive(keep(presentprogressive(seeth))))
FTFY
>How can I tell you have no social skills and suck at life in general?
Stay mad, I know you can't believe there are actually competent programmers and engineers who are also interesting people with friends, but contrary to popular belief, there are plenty, stay mad web designer.. cof.. "programmer".
if (you catch my drift)
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you're mom is a programming language
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Fix that semantic error, will ya?
It's called pseudocode
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What did you do
Don't know about his keyboard, but on mine it's {[]} directly next to each other.
Can easily happen.
you got as much chance as me tapping that ass... which is none
stop bully
>I know you can't believe there are actually competent programmers and engineers who are also interesting people with friends
There are, you're just not one of them. You can easily perceive a person by their posting style.
I'm a 30 year old programmer, I learned when I was 29. I'm working at a startup company. Not the best result people expect but it's honest work and I like it.
Keep projecting friendo. I'm a comfy sysadmin who goes out every weekend, I might not be a mega chad but far from being an aspie like the average Jow Forums poster. But also not a pretentious numale faggot webdev thinking they are hot shit, its ok to be a webdev (I was backend, more respectable but still far from an actual professional systems programmer), and I don't go around saying I'm an engineer or actual programmer just because I wrote some shitty plugins for ecommerce stores.
Op you can do it, start with Udemy course on webdev, it's the easiest thing. If anyone tells you otherwise then, well, fuck them.
>Udemy
Dear Hello Sirs.
It's still better than youtube
It's all useless stuff. Just buy a book
Not saying much since udemy just repackages free material and puts a price tag on it without the original creater's consent.
Udemy is just a scam site lots of brainlets fall for.
How is it useless though, it's a good place to start, at least for beginners
You can learn how to code but you wont get a job until you flagellate yourself at the altar of higher education and work as an intern (slave) for 20 years
Imagine being this retarded.
People generally get smarter as they get older so you might find it easier to learn now than you might have done before. It will be hard work, and will obviously be harder if you don't know your way around a PC.
What the fuck do you think the L stands for you dumshit
Thanks to everyone posting in this thread.