I'm a female, mid-career forestry machine engineer with 15+ years' experience in my field. I've had my fair share of challenges to get where I am, but nothing quite as daunting as hacking into the world of computer programming.
The amount of strange jargon and odd rules can feel endless. It turns out that = doesn't actually mean =, and git is not just a British insult.
However, I'm doing an 'Introductory C Programming' series of courses through Duke University via Coursera. This is a grassroots course that not only looks at syntax but takes a few extra steps back before writing any code. It covers best practices for developing algorithms and emphasizes that code development is 90% planning and shows how to do so in seven simple steps.
If you're green, I highly recommend it.
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