I want to learn coding in order to make money and eventually get off the welfare system. I consider this my only option. However, i don’t know much about the subject, but I think I would prefer learning Python. And is it even possible to get decent money by coding alone without a team and through self-education only? I was thinking maybe making apps or something…
Just code. I would not worry too much about following some special guide or method. Just code. Immerse yourself in it. Come up with project ideas you want to do and do them. If you run into brick walls that you don’t know how to do something, then look it up, watch a tutorial, look at StackOverflow, ask an LLM to explain it to you (don’t ask it to write the code for you), etc. And then just keep coding. Do more projects, etc. You learn by doing. The more you do the more you will know. If you are not motivated to do anything, then you will never learn anything. So come up with projects that you want to do, and just do it.
It is possible to get a job just being self-taught if you have a lot of projects to show off. Although, it is harder for two reasons. The first is that some job requirements just put in a minimum education requirement that is non-negotiable. Many require at least a B.S. in computer science if you are looking for a 9-5. There are contract work where you take on just a specific project that tend to have more lax requirements, though. The second reason is that some interviews ask generic textbook university questions which you might not know the answer to if you never went to university, just because they expect you to know specific terminology. Once you get decent at coding from self-learning, you might want to watch online lectures and courses just get familiar with how things are talked about and taught in university.
While you’re following a rigorous and guided curriculum so as to not leave large gaps in your knowledge or develop bad habits https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?d=Electrical+Engineering+and+Computer+Science you should also be messing with code, practicing and playing with it. Go to places like project euler if you’re into math puzzles https://projecteuler.info/about or there’s a bunch of fun stuff here too https://thecodingtrain.com/
There are guides on youtube you can find that will specifically walk you through how to make an app on whatever platform you want, but I recommend you don’t dive in that far until you at least have the basics on object oriented programming.
Everything I know about coding I learned from deepseek. I don’t know much but I do know that the future of coding is learning how to use AI to do most of it.
If you learn python, you can make mobile and desktop apps with kivy and kivymd.
