Hi, are there any older people here who decided to learn programming and change their current industry? My age is 36. Not much, but not little either. Like everyone else, I have some concerns, due to work and family, I have less time to study, although it's going slowly. I am not able to learn as much in a year as other people with fewer family responsibilities, but I think it can be done in a longer time. What is your attitude, what level are you at, when have you been learning, what are your fears, what motivates you to change the industry? Or maybe you have some examples among your friends who started later? I finished technical studies, but my life was going in a different direction. However, I have always been close to things that required rigorous thinking and analysis, so I hope that I have a chance to learn faster. I definitely need to learn English, but here I also think that a year or two will allow me to be communicative enough to talk to other programmers and be able to explain what I meant when I programmed something. : )
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At what age do you start programming?
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zemiak
2 March 2024, 19:24
after 40 and with children it's harder, but it's still possibly. Learning new things sometimes means forgetting the old ones. It also depends on what you want to learn, whether python or Java, the learning curve will be different. Neurologists say that the brain is at its peak in the 30s and then the performance starts to decline, but it is said to be individual :)
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Lawrence Babay QA Automation Engineer
26 February 2024, 22:48
Hey Marcin,
Me, I started at 30,I actually took the college route and at that time I mostly worked as an IT technician. Right after college I was able to switch and ended up in testing. Until now I'm working as a QA manual/automation. The job is okay It helps me to get my foot in the door, it is fun but now I felt like it's getting boring, and a lot of repetition that's why I enrolled in Codegym and hopefully before the end of this year I'm able to land a java developer job. By the way I'm in my early 40's now. Good luck to you!
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