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Originally Posted by crossbow
The computer industry is a separate world of its own. It has its own language, history, and culture. You will be entering a job market and competing with people that have been interested in computers since they were able to read and type.
Not saying you can't be very good at it, just saying expect a large learning curve to catch up to people that have been doing it for fifteen years and only went to school for the sheep's skin cuz they already knew how to do it.
In other words: You won't even know how much you don't know. You won't be able to get what you need from one online course. Do you have any database, lan, wan, experience? Do you understand retail terminology? How are your math skills? Can you link tax tables into a order form? Do you understand network security, firewalls, secure sessions, TC/IP?
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I grew up in the 80s, had a commodore 64 and traded pirated video games - but never coded or anything. I didn't start programming until I was 29 and have made a nice 15-year career out of it so far. Being a good programmer takes a certain kind of brain. You have to be good at solving puzzles and deductive reasoning. Generally either you can do it or you can't, and you find out right away.
Not that experience isn't huge. But even with little experience, if you have the aptitude you can be as productive as a crappy experiences developer - and it goes up fast from there.