Your next step should be Udemy plus freeCodeCamp. Those two together make one beast of a way to learn coding.
Can a 13 Year Old Become A Web Developer?
I think this time you should learn some language program. Javascript can make you get jobs easy.
Well I am 14 years old and I have started in the programming world for about 11 months and I joined the freecodecamp forum about 18 days and I have done quite well, the only problem with the work is with the legality that is from 17 years old.
Great Kid you can get freelancing jobs and work on client project. I would suggest you to start bidding on projects posted on upwork & freelancer sites. Best of luck from me.
In my humble opinion, and many others I have seen - php is almost out of date. That is a general opinion on the WWW, but it is still used. My mom is learning php so she can get a job at wordpress.
You can surely work, no matter what. To get started with real world projects, contribute to Open Source. However, earning money is a different thing and not for discussion here.
Depending on your location, you may or may not be able to legally work. In some US states, you can work as young as 14? (IANAL, do your own research). If youâre just getting started on learning, you probably donât have to worry about itâŚby the time you have the skills you need, youâll probably be at a legal age to work anyway.
Iâd like to encourage you though. Youâre at an ideal age to learnâŚas a student, it sounds like you donât have a job, and you likely donât have many other responsibilities (big assumption here, I know). My point is, you have a lot of time on your handsâŚif youâre interested in programming, you are in the ideal place in life to accelerate your learning with countless hours of hands on experience. If you have the desire, you should go for it! Donât waste your time - when youâre my age, you have to fight for every hour.
check The Odin Project out. itâs really cool om RoR stuff.
Also, experience the joy of freelance.
if youâre 14 you may as well get the experience by offering some free work, and then when you get the ball rolling with a couple projects you can then start charging.
if you can avoid the hassle of getting a job and be freelance for life, dude⌠DUUUUUDE!
Yea. I agree. Partly because PHP syntax is the worst. I mean. It is the worst. More and more people are using python, however even though its on a slow, i mean really slow, downward trend, its still worth learning.
Hey there! I started web stuff at your age too. Iâm 20 now and Iâve worked in a handful of programming languages, built some stuff here and there, have a tech blog, etc.
Scratch is real programming! Sure, you donât have to remember syntax, but you still need the same problem solving skills.
There will be people who will tell you HTML isnât programming, so youâll learn Python. Then theyâll tell you Python isnât legit and you should learn Java. Then someone else will tell you Java stopped being anything but legacy code five years ago and you should just go straight to learning C. And once youâve mastered C eventually someone will tell you youâre not a real programmer unless you know Lisp too! Oh, and then youâve got the text editor wars, the operating system wars, the code style warsâŚ
None of this is actually important, itâs all a bunch of posturing for status. But status doesnât matter, empirically. What matters is what you can build. Focus on that. Donât let other people bash on you for whatever tools youâre using, and donât bash other people for theirs. Definitely check out new tools and stuff, but donât make it your source of cred.
Also, maybe you canât get an official job right now, but you know what you can do? Build your own app, website, set of scripts, whatever you think will be useful to other people. Youâll definitely improve your programming skills, youâll have learned a bunch about design and version control and reading APIs and using frameworks, itâll be an excellent thing to show employers later on, you might be able to make money from it, and if it really takes off Google will come to you
Try reading Paul Grahamâs essays. Theyâre about this kind of thing, and you might find them interesting. Some are really long, but since youâre a programmer I assume you have the patience for that. Hereâs the first one I recommend you read; all the others can be accessed by the Essays link on the side.
Also, get involved in the open source hacker community if you can. If you write a script to save yourself some busywork, or you think some bit of JS you wrote might be useful to someone else, put it on GitHub and stick an open source license on it (I usually use the MIT license for little stuff). Start using open source software whenever you can, and whenever you find a bug or think you can improve it somehow, fork their project (make a copy of it) and hack on it yourself. Then you can send that to the maintainers, and if they really like it they might make it part of the official code! Fun stuff.
Anyway Iâm super jealous you have friends who are also into coding. Donât be dismissive of them, theyâre gonna learn stuff as they go on just like you are. They might even learn certain things faster than you and maybe youâll need their help later.
Happy hacking!
Yea, I have had a change of mentality on that subject. I really agree with what you are saying! Thanks!!