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I quit my job to learn how to code at 44.

DEV Community·Estrellacodes·20 days ago
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So You Want to Learn to Code but You Are Scared- Me Too I quit my job to learn how to code. I know how that sounds. It gets crazier. I turned 44 this year, and I have been dreaming of becoming a coder for the past 3 years. Coming from a purely artistic academic background with over fifteen years of work experience predominantly in strategic communications, switching lanes was a scary thought, and I sat with it for those three years before a series of divinely orchestrated events made me take the plunge. (Story for another day) If you have a little bit of crazy in you and believe in making the impossible possible, you are in the right place. So far, I have been introduced to the world of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. It has been a mishmash of wonder, excitement, delight, anxiety, fear, and sheer fright, because learning something drastically new from all you have known is never easy.…

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