How I Learned to Code Well Enough to Get Paid in 6 Months Not a bootcamp grad story. Not a CS degree story. Just a regular person who wanted to change careers. Where I Started (Month 0) Background: Non-technical job, no coding experience, 30+ years old. Motivation: Saw a friend's salary after switching to tech. Got jealous. Got curious. Starting point: Zero. Couldn't tell HTML from Python from SQL. The Plan That Actually Worked Month 1: The Foundation (2-3 hours/day) Week 1-2: HTML & CSS FreeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Design certification Built a personal portfolio page (ugly but mine) Key insight: CSS is harder than it looks Week 3-4: JavaScript Basics JavaScript.info (free, excellent) Built a to-do app, a calculator, a simple game Key insight: Variables, loops, and if-statements are 90% of programming What I did wrong: Tried to learn too many things at once. Picked up React while still struggling with this keyword. What worked: One resource at a time. Finish before moving on.…