Thank you so much! I know of a few things I'd like to build already. I definitely want to build an odds website for sports metrics, (I'm a big leafs fan) and I have a couple ideas for different apps that I would personally find useful. I sat in on a couple bootcamp recruitment video calls, and a lot of the instructors mention the same thing in regards to bad practices. It is something I'll have to be conscious of.

Thank you! Ambition isn't a problem for me, I'm good at setting tasks for myself and working to complete them on a daily basis and am able to keep a pace over time well enough. But I also want to maximize my time and chart a somewhat efficient course towards employment at some point. I know I'd rather focus on building things, (apps/web), as opposed to mining blocks of code for data, but that is still obviously a pretty wide open statement. If employment is the ultimate goal, would you suggest EdX or some of the tutorials on slant? Or both? I'll be taking my first steps in actually learning in the next week or two, regardless of what I ultimately gravitate towards, but I'd also like to maximize the usefulness of the commitments I'll be making towards learning after the initial introductions.

Why are you against the camps?

lol, it's definitely the default country. I changed it now :p ... and I'm definitely not an iron maiden fan.

Hello! I'm new to the community, so hopefully this is the right place for this kind of question. I'm looking to start learning to code. I currently live in Toronto, Canada, and have worked retail for the last few years. When I was younger I had thought about getting into the CSs, but I fell out of interest with the idea. I do enjoy working on computers and used to spend quite a bit of my time playing around on them when I was a teen, especially in design, but otherwise have no coding experience beyond what they taught us in highschool. I have no undergraduate degree, and was thinking of possibly enrolling in a bootcamp to help me get started. There seems to be so many bootcamp options that is a bit overwhelming tbh, and many have quite a high price tag associated with them. (10-20k for 6 months) I have a friend who is a data scientist and he tells me not to bother with the expensive boot camps, but I feel as if that structure could help me as I'm starting off pretty much blindly. I'm looking for a bit of guidance to get started. Should I be enrolling in free introductory courses, doing self-taught tutorials, and what areas of the industry should I be focusing on. (job roles, languages, etc.) I know this is a super open-ended question, but any information at my stage is valuable information. Thanks guys,