15 Tips To Switch Your Career To Coding
Are you considering becoming a programmer? It doesn’t matter who you are now and what your current job is about. I tried myself as a civil servant, diplomat, and lean production manager before the moment when I realized I wanted to free from office work and everyday meetings to be able to create something valuable and unique by myself.
You shouldn’t be strong at math or algorithms. All you need is to love studying and have enough will, passion, and patience for this. Working as a programmer gives some advantages and the possibility to “relax and take a breath” only after 2–3 years of hard work and studying. Before that time you have to be ready to feel yourself at the bottom, not knowing almost nothing about what to do and where to move. But in the end, you will be proud of yourself.
Read about web development and tendencies in general. Decide who you want to be — web designer, front-end developer, or back-end developer. Some of your previous experience could help you. If you are strong at creating a presentation, structuring content — you will probably succeed at web design, if you want to deal with some business logic not deepening into databases — you will want to choose the path of front-end developer, otherwise, your choice is back-end developer.
