Are there any podcasts or books on tape or anything that would be helpful in learning programming? Mainly python and Javascript. The few I've found so far are aimed at people already experienced.
My life basically consists of work, Lawncare, play with my girl when I'm not at work or mowing, garage/woodworking when she's asleep, and a dash of sleep for myself. I've really been wanting to learn to code, but I'm not willing to give up time on the other stuff. I figured long drives for work is an available block of time for some learning if I can find something that's able to start the foundation through audio only means?
If you want to learn there's tutorials out the ying-yang
If I walked you through writing a simple looping application, with if/else selects, you more or less would have written a stripped down version of any given program that a coder maintains or writes.
But you wouldn't feel like you were a coder, and you wouldn't be.
You don't start to feel like a coder until you've done it a couple thousand times over, and you've fixed several hundred cryptic compilation errors that don't actually spell the error out for you
Or walk into an environment that you have no experience with but, just following the structure backwards you're able to (after wasting all day), figure out the working code you need to manipulate.
When I teach people how to code, which I often have to do since I work a lot in Legacy systems. I usually sit (well pre-covid at least) beside them, and let them do the typing, while I guide them through what to do, I do this for a few weeks, and start removing guidance steps, eventually I stop shadowing them and keep main correspondences to email, and have them call me over where the pain points still exist.
I'd say like Jiu-Jitsu, there is a need for kinesthetic immersion, even if it's only typing on a keyboard, it requires an involvedness to graft an association.
Some people try to describe learning a programming language like learning an actual human language, but I'd say its more akin to learning a very complex game with a very strict set of rules.
Also a Step Through Debugger is extremely valuable, as opposed to peering at static code on a screen that either does or doesn't compile, runtime errors being baby steps and logical errors a constant no matter your expertise
