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Heard a kid at Starbucks say he was learning Python and it took me back
I was waiting for my coffee yesterday and this kid maybe 16 years old was on his laptop watching a Python tutorial. Told his friend he was building a little game already after 2 weeks of learning. Made me think about how I started coding back in like 2008 with some awful PHP book from a library. Now you got YouTube and full courses for free and kids are making stuff way faster than I ever did. Any of you older devs feel like the learning curve got way smoother for beginners now?
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emery101h ago
Totally agree with @spencer_gonzalez1 on the pace thing. Back in my day learning Python meant fighting with installers and reading PDFs that were half broken. Now a kid on YouTube has a full game running in two weeks? That's wild. The barrier to entry is basically zero compared to when I started with PHP in 2008. I remember spending weeks just getting a simple form to work while kids today ship entire apps. It's great for them honestly, less frustration, more building.
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daniel_cooper341h ago
My first Python install took 45 minutes of trial and error just to get the path variable right. The real win with modern tutorials is they actually explain what an IDE is, which would have saved me a week of confusion back in 08. Just tell that kid to keep his notes organized early, it saves a lot of headaches later when his game gets bigger.
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