It probably started with a Google search. "Best free coding course for beginners." Or maybe it was a YouTube video. Or a Reddit thread. Or a Twitter reply from someone who learned to code in six months and got hired at a fintech. Wherever it started, within 48 hours I had accounts on: freeCodeCamp ✓ The Odin Project ✓ Udemy ✓ Udacity ✓ Coursera ✓ And I hadn't written a single line of code yet. The First Week on Every Platform freeCodeCamp felt good. Structured. Little boxes to fill. Instant feedback. I flew through the first HTML lessons and felt like a genius. Then someone on Reddit said freeCodeCamp wasn't good enough for getting a job. That you needed projects. That the certificates meant nothing. So I opened The Odin Project. TOP felt serious. Real. Like actual developers built it for actual developers. I loved the philosophy. But it was harder. Less hand-holding. I got stuck on the first JavaScript exercise and spent two hours going nowhere. So I opened Udemy.…