How I Learned to Code in 4 Months & Got a Job! (No CS Degree, No Bootcamp)

I dropped out of college, was in debt, working 60 hours a week,

hated my job, and most importantly, I felt stuck.

This is the story of how I learned how to code within four months, and I got a job.

I did it with no computer science degree or a coding BootCamp

I am going to explain exactly what I learned, how I got a job, and how much that job paid.

Let's go.

Before I got into tech, I was working a lot of dead end sales jobs,

because I dropped out of community college and I didn't really have any other skills.

I didn't like the idea of always having to hop from job to job If I didn't like something.

I wanted something with a little bit more career mobility long term.

I didn't even really know what coding was.

I just knew that the tech industry was, let's say, a great environment for

$180 grand now

$200 ish

$250,000

$400,000 annually

growth... Yeah.

By the way, I'm not knocking sales.

I think sales is a really important skill to learn.

I just needed a change, and it really just wasn't for me long term.

And I wanted to gain the ability to build something of my own.

The idea of building something from zero to one seemed like a superpower to me.

Day one,

I just went on Google and I typed in how to code.

That's when I found a site called FreeCodeCamp, and I started to learn about web development.

I quickly learned about HTML, CSS,

and I learned about my first real programming language called JavaScript.

There's a bunch of different programming languages that you could learn,

but I personally chose JavaScript because I wanted to build web apps.

Even major companies like Uber and Airbnb use it, and there's a massive demand for it in the job market.

By using FreeCodeCamp, I started to learn the basics of coding.

I learned things like variables, loops, objects, and functions.

But even after doing the tutorials, I didn't really feel like I could apply to anything.