How fast can you learn a coder language?

[Jason]

I mean, there are all these videos online on learning them in 1 hour or 8 hours or whatever. What can the brain grasp out of them? Do you feel those videos are worth it and by how much?

 

[Arantor]

They don’t teach you how to program. They teach you the grammar and syntax of a language and at best a crash course of how to build a specific thing. Which is fine if you only want to build a specific thing.

Odds are I’d get more out of one than someone unfamiliar to programming because I already know what programming (the actual problem solving part) is about, all I need to get started in a new language are the terms/grammar/syntax and its idioms and idiosyncrasies.

 

[Cory]

It took me several years to learn JavaScript seeing as I could never understand much of it until jQuery came around and I started using both hand-in-hand and became more familiar with vanilla JavaScript in doing so. I would love to learn React JS, but I have watched a few courses about it and just can't really grasp the newer technologies of it all or I just give up too quickly.

 

[Jason]

I'm grasping things quick on the BroCode Python video. Also, I am going to attempt a coding camp this coming summer.

 

[Empire]

If you ahve the knowledge and who is willing to learn it can depend on each person, For, it would be taken awhile since I have a learning disability

 

[Jason]

It all depends on the time, of course. I mean, I could donate all my time to studying things, but I have a wife and kid to support - despite the fact, financially, studying makes me big money in the long run.