Since I was twenty-three, I've been on an intentional path of self-improvement. It didn't help that a once-in-a-century pandemic came right smack dab as I was making those key changes—but I kept on with my goals.
Love this for you! And I'm jealous! I've also tried to learn to code. I learned enough HTML/CSS to edit my Livejournal (lol) in high school and then learned some more to make some SEO changes in my first job. But every time I've started a course since then I've gotten stymied right away and given up. It does seem meditative, once you get it. I think learning ML right now is a great idea. AI will do the programming soon enough, but learning how to build and tweak AI models seems like a very strong career move, to the extent any of us will have jobs, lol.
Most of all, though, it's less important what you're learning and more important that you're overcoming your barriers to learning. I deeply empathize with the feeling afraid of finding out you're stupid. That's been a huge blocker for me. And I'm so excited to see you working through that fear. The most important thing to learn is how to keep learning.
Thank you :D and yes it's pretty challenging, but having access to therapy/stable housing/mental health meds gave me the foundation for this. It's so hard to learn new skills when life is hectic(as it has been for me for a while before this).
And yes - totally agree on self validation stuff. I think for a lot of spectrumy/neurodivergent people we grow up hearing that we are stupid, "slow" or whatever so this experience has been affirming.
If you ever would like to try programming together or just want a buddy for that stuff please let me know! I'm doing Python now but would like to do some creative coding in the future which could be fun :D
Yes CodeAcademy is awesome! I did SQL classes there a while back and they have a great self paced Python course. They have some fun ones like how to make a chatbot and so on. I suggest them for how much information they have.
Love this for you! And I'm jealous! I've also tried to learn to code. I learned enough HTML/CSS to edit my Livejournal (lol) in high school and then learned some more to make some SEO changes in my first job. But every time I've started a course since then I've gotten stymied right away and given up. It does seem meditative, once you get it. I think learning ML right now is a great idea. AI will do the programming soon enough, but learning how to build and tweak AI models seems like a very strong career move, to the extent any of us will have jobs, lol.
Most of all, though, it's less important what you're learning and more important that you're overcoming your barriers to learning. I deeply empathize with the feeling afraid of finding out you're stupid. That's been a huge blocker for me. And I'm so excited to see you working through that fear. The most important thing to learn is how to keep learning.
Thank you :D and yes it's pretty challenging, but having access to therapy/stable housing/mental health meds gave me the foundation for this. It's so hard to learn new skills when life is hectic(as it has been for me for a while before this).
And yes - totally agree on self validation stuff. I think for a lot of spectrumy/neurodivergent people we grow up hearing that we are stupid, "slow" or whatever so this experience has been affirming.
If you ever would like to try programming together or just want a buddy for that stuff please let me know! I'm doing Python now but would like to do some creative coding in the future which could be fun :D
TYSM! I will! Do you recommend CodeAcademy for learning Python? Do they offer more than one intro to python course?
Yes CodeAcademy is awesome! I did SQL classes there a while back and they have a great self paced Python course. They have some fun ones like how to make a chatbot and so on. I suggest them for how much information they have.
This is great!
Thank you!