I wish I'd treated things more like a marathon than a sprint.
Impatience or discouragement railroaded me for a decade and a half before it actually stuck. I've been fascinated by computer technology from a very young age. That lifelong fascination has served me well but I consistently fell off from actually doing anything technical for long stretches of time because I thought it might not be for me if I wasn't already great at the coding.
Some proper mentorship or education or access to my own computer may have helped, but the bottom line is that things took longer than I was willing to put up with when I was young.
What languages/tech/whatever were you using at the time?
I think this is one of the reasons PHP stuck so well. It is incredibly satisfying to just modify a file on a server and see the results on your web page instantly, and with almost every other language that is really hard to replicate the way I have seen it done with PHP. It made experimenting so much more satisfying because you didn't have to learn all sorts of other things to start seeing your code do something.
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I wish I'd treated things more like a marathon than a sprint.
Impatience or discouragement railroaded me for a decade and a half before it actually stuck. I've been fascinated by computer technology from a very young age. That lifelong fascination has served me well but I consistently fell off from actually doing anything technical for long stretches of time because I thought it might not be for me if I wasn't already great at the coding.
Some proper mentorship or education or access to my own computer may have helped, but the bottom line is that things took longer than I was willing to put up with when I was young.
What languages/tech/whatever were you using at the time?
I think this is one of the reasons PHP stuck so well. It is incredibly satisfying to just modify a file on a server and see the results on your web page instantly, and with almost every other language that is really hard to replicate the way I have seen it done with PHP. It made experimenting so much more satisfying because you didn't have to learn all sorts of other things to start seeing your code do something.