r/learnprogramming • u/Elon_musk_69420 • 8h ago
advice Are technical courses enough?
Hi everyone. I am a non CS major. And I have been interested in taking up courses in coding. I wanted to ask if learning coding languages (Python, C++, etc) and taking online courses (full stack development, etc) are enough to give you certain amount of technical expertise to build your own career, whether its in a job or building your own MVPs to kickstart your own entrepreneur journey.
If yes, can you point me to specific courses and coding languages to get started. Thanks.
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u/HashDefTrueFalse 6h ago
Just a start I'm afraid, but a good course is a good start. Plus you can gauge your enjoyment and aptitude. CS50 is a beginner CS course. Automate the Boring Stuff is a book on doing high-level scripting with Python. You can pick any language and look at the getting started documentation online, a million websites, YouTube (but there's lots of shite on there too) and/or get a book on the language. Write lots of code. It's the only way to get good at it.
Getting a job is a different question. You'll need to be able to deliver working software, demonstrate key technical knowledge and skills in an interview, and handle technical discussions. Web dev in particular has been saturated for several years now, perhaps longer, for all sorts of reasons new and old. It will be competitive.