After a couple month's of considering taking it up, I decided to to start teaching myself how to code. Possessing enough knowledge of html/css to keep a wordpress functional and looking slick is about the extent of my knowledge of web dev. After doing a little research on what language would be best to start with, I found out that there is no consensus, so I am going with Ruby. Starting off working through the CodeAcademy Ruby lessons. From there I was thinking of either working through 'Learn Ruby the Hard Way' or 'Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial'. OneMonthRails looks interesting as well. Any thoughts or suggestions on this journey Im about to embark on would be greatly appreciated. For those of you here who have successfully taught themselves to code, please share any tips or ideas that you found helped your progress.
I "learned" so many languages that I can hardly remember them all, but what allways helped me was to make a new project in that specific language.
Do your tutorials and lessons and stuff. After that make up something that you want to do and code it in the new language. While tutorials are nice to show you the basics, when you want to do something usefull you usually come across problems that are not discussed in tutorials. You need to do your own research. Thats when you start to learn the (new) language. While doing so, you will something think "I better start from scratch, now that I know xyz". Dont do that. Finish with your initial approach. Thats the most important part, finish the project. Even if you "just" reach a beta stadium where you get the basics done, but you still miss out the fancy stuff. Finish it!
For some people it helps to set yourself a deadline, so you get some pressure
