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The portrait kind of painter working like the fence kind is not a good thing. It's not even a thing at all, it's an illusion.
Also when it comes to accessibility for the aspiring hobbyist coding is very accessible. If you have nothing to start with, sure, more expensive than knitting, but probably not more expensive than acquiring a merino wool habit, and if you already have any kind of computer, any, as well as an internet connection, it's literally free. The tools, the knowledge, everything. Willingness to learn not included.
I learned python and bash over about 6 months.
I’m not a phenomenal coder yet but it’s definitely doable. I didn’t take a class or read any books I just tried to code shit until eventually the anger and frustration lead to a moment where it kind of clicked and I was just like, writing line after line after line of code.
It was so weird. When I woke up that morning I felt like I’d never learn and then I could just kind of do it.
Have you already heard of our Lord and Saviour, the Wizard, and the scripture known as The Wizard Book? By the end of it you will be able to write a compiler, be a smith who can forge their own tongs.
(The software to use with the book is nowadays called racket, use
#lang sicpto enable the right dialect)I have not. I’m about to start learning rust so this could be useful. Thanks!
The Rust book is also good at teaching coding, but it would be more of a jump into cold water. It's still more about teaching coders about Rust, only teaching coding incidentally to pick up people coming from a variety of languages, instead of getting into the core of computation itself.
I mean, I literally learned python and bash by just kind of going for it, so this sounds good.