I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Almost everything to be honest, but I had a rather long and complicated journey learning to code.
The single biggest thing I would do differently based on what I know now though is to start with Python, or possibly Elixir. A lot of my early attempts at learning to code involved languages that were, honestly, less than ideal for it in many respects (Racket (at the time known as DrScheme), BASIC (a now defunct historical variant), JS (late ES 3 vintage), Java, etc), and in retrospect that seriously hampered my ability to learn (especially starting with a Scheme dialect, S-Expressions are great and all, but they're not exactly user friendly syntax for someone who's never even heard of, let alone used, RPN).
Almost everything to be honest, but I had a rather long and complicated journey learning to code.
The single biggest thing I would do differently based on what I know now though is to start with Python, or possibly Elixir. A lot of my early attempts at learning to code involved languages that were, honestly, less than ideal for it in many respects (Racket (at the time known as DrScheme), BASIC (a now defunct historical variant), JS (late ES 3 vintage), Java, etc), and in retrospect that seriously hampered my ability to learn (especially starting with a Scheme dialect, S-Expressions are great and all, but they're not exactly user friendly syntax for someone who's never even heard of, let alone used, RPN).
I totally agree with you. I've also seen the effects of trying to scratch every language there is. Thanks for that