“The Most Important Thing” ~About Learning Programming~ 📚

This is yesterday's post.

It is a statement of my experience and personal opinion regarding the question, "Is it worth attending a programming school?"

I wrote about various points to check before enrolling, but I realized I forgot to write about the most important thing.

That is,

What do I want to do? ✨

In short, it's your motivation.

"I want to learn programming so I can build systems like this!"

"I want to become a teacher and share the fun of programming with many people!"

"I want to acquire logical thinking skills by learning programming!"

...and so on.
Learning programming,

whether you can envision a future self living happily

is what becomes important.
If the final destination of this image ends up beingmoney-relatedmatters, continuing to learn will become painful.

When you get stuck in the gap between your ideals and reality after graduation,

"I wish I hadn't attended a programming school!"
"It was a waste of time and money!"
"So-and-so school is a scam!"

is what happens.
(Although, in reality, there may be unscrupulous operators...)

Even at famous schools,"Increase your annual income by XX!" "Get a job at a major company!"many attractive phrases are flying around.
You could say that the appeal of money is that great, but I think the most important thing is"what you want to do yourself"whether you can strongly envision that.

When I enrolled in school, I was overwhelmingly lacking in this mindset.

"If I learn programming,it seems like it might be useful somehow." Because I enrolled with such avery shallow motivation, my motivation dropped by the time I reached the final project, and even after graduation, I ended up not knowing what I specifically wanted to do.

Looking back now, I was searching for a job with a very lighthearted motivation: "I learned programming, so I should work somewhere where I can do programming..."
With this mindset, I failed every interview.

Since I couldn't even create a decent portfolio (roughly speaking, a collection of your own work), there was no way I would be accepted in the real world.

So, if you have a concrete image of your future, should you really attend a school?

I believe you should.

The reason is that it is quite unreasonable to learn programming on your own.
Textbooks are sold everywhere, both in bookstores and as Kindle versions.
For those of you who are about to start learning programming, please try buying one textbook you like and studying it.

This is probably what will happen.

The costs may be low, but... it defeats the purpose if it ends up like this.

There are many channels on YouTube that offer courses, but... places run as companies are better than those run by individuals because their support systems and other aspects are more comprehensive.
(YouTube courses are quite difficult for beginners...)

A major benefit of attending a school (whether in-person or online) is that you can be taught various things by professionals in the field and receive support.
You can also deepen your interactions with fellow students.

If you are planning to start learning programming, I would be happy if you would consider this along with my post from yesterday.

By the way, I still study programming from time to time even after graduating.
Right now, I'm just learning with Progate, but I plan to learn PHP (a language suitable for web development) in more detail eventually.

Enjoy learning.
This is important!

Well then, good night 😄🌠

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*It was not good that I left my old account as it was...

*I am learning more and more from everyone!

*This might be a common occurrence in households.
(Thank you for pointing out the Setsubun/Risshun mistake! 😅)

*The temptation of love...💗