I appreciate you taking the time to comment so much useful information! Seems to me like our brains work very similarly. I had to learn Python for a mandatory class. I can write scripts, and passed my course with a 100 but I didn't understand it really. When I started writing C# the first week I was completely lost. After I finished my 3rd or 4th simple project it just clicked.
I have been learning bits and pieces of JavaScript, but I looked into TypeScript and honestly it makes so much more sense to me. I take SQL starting in August, but I already started fooling around with it. My mom's work has all of their client information in a SQL database and she had no idea how to do anything with it and she is the director. LOL Can you imagine how badly that would have turned out? So I sat down one day and just figured it out so I could show her the basics of at least adding and accessing information.
My problem with all of these bootcamps and even with my college classes is that they don't teach you there are a million and one ways you can achieve the same end result. Teachers and people selling courses don't tell you there is a world of options. They want you to learn their way, and only their way. They try and put blinders on you, and they also don't tell you anything about how it actually works. For example, when I had to write python scripts I was learning it in an interactive browser, so I only know how to execute it from pressing the play button from my course. They don't tell you how you actually apply any of it. That was my biggest issue when I tried learning to code before.
I can write all this code, but what the hell do I do with it after it's written??? I'm still trying to fully grasp how to connect all this information I have together, but there is less information on how to connect things together. They only want to show you how to connect things in THEIR WAY.
I couldn't agree with you more about not really understanding what you learn until you apply it to your own projects. That is why I really love my C# teacher. We have an interactive browser we learn the concept in first then she sends us to Visual Studio to create our own projects. She will give us a general idea, then have us write a code that applies to the general idea. I'm glad I have her for all of my classes except one next semester she's awesome. My Python teacher I didn't speak to once all semester. He didn't even write anything in our modules. They paid for a course on Cengage and it walks you through it. Learned how to follow directions. I thought maybe once I took the class Id actually like python more, nope. I hate it more. LOL.
Thanks again for taking the time to help a noobie out. Stay in touch! I need to find a mentor xD if you're ever not busy and feel like helping out I'm around!
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I appreciate you taking the time to comment so much useful information! Seems to me like our brains work very similarly. I had to learn Python for a mandatory class. I can write scripts, and passed my course with a 100 but I didn't understand it really. When I started writing C# the first week I was completely lost. After I finished my 3rd or 4th simple project it just clicked.
I have been learning bits and pieces of JavaScript, but I looked into TypeScript and honestly it makes so much more sense to me. I take SQL starting in August, but I already started fooling around with it. My mom's work has all of their client information in a SQL database and she had no idea how to do anything with it and she is the director. LOL Can you imagine how badly that would have turned out? So I sat down one day and just figured it out so I could show her the basics of at least adding and accessing information.
My problem with all of these bootcamps and even with my college classes is that they don't teach you there are a million and one ways you can achieve the same end result. Teachers and people selling courses don't tell you there is a world of options. They want you to learn their way, and only their way. They try and put blinders on you, and they also don't tell you anything about how it actually works. For example, when I had to write python scripts I was learning it in an interactive browser, so I only know how to execute it from pressing the play button from my course. They don't tell you how you actually apply any of it. That was my biggest issue when I tried learning to code before.
I can write all this code, but what the hell do I do with it after it's written??? I'm still trying to fully grasp how to connect all this information I have together, but there is less information on how to connect things together. They only want to show you how to connect things in THEIR WAY.
I couldn't agree with you more about not really understanding what you learn until you apply it to your own projects. That is why I really love my C# teacher. We have an interactive browser we learn the concept in first then she sends us to Visual Studio to create our own projects. She will give us a general idea, then have us write a code that applies to the general idea. I'm glad I have her for all of my classes except one next semester she's awesome. My Python teacher I didn't speak to once all semester. He didn't even write anything in our modules. They paid for a course on Cengage and it walks you through it. Learned how to follow directions. I thought maybe once I took the class Id actually like python more, nope. I hate it more. LOL.
Thanks again for taking the time to help a noobie out. Stay in touch! I need to find a mentor xD if you're ever not busy and feel like helping out I'm around!