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As for the server side, I'll get shot for saying this but learn Microsoft .NET (C#) and SQL Server and you'll never be out of work
With Linux based languages any old PC can be used and you don't need to pay for the OS or DB.
I'm in the process of piecing together a rudimentary computer set up so I'll have a look at Linux/Visual Studio
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10 years ago it used to be essential to get anything done, but with modern browsers and Javascript 6 you can write great code straight out of the box. The risk with learning JQuery is that you learn the library and not the language.
C# is a great language and Visual Studio is a brilliant IDE, but if you are learning to get a job then I'd avoid it as most Microsoft shops are going to be looking for people with a CS degree.
At the same time learn about the back-end side of things.
I'm teaching myself to code to get around the frustration of company tools built in bloody excel, rewriting them as proper web based tools that produce a nice output and I can query at hearts content.
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There's huge demand for these skills and 6 figure salaries on offer. Many people have the maths but few have the maths and the programming chops.
There are C# jobs in places other than software houses (thank Christ, I can't stomach the places - horses/courses I guess) and, whilst they'll usually want *a* degree (which I have), I've never found the fact it wasn't a CS to be a problem in 20 years and several jobs, some with household names.
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I feel you can sum up programming by saying that the trouble with programming is other programmers. One place I worked, I asked a guy "do you know how this method works?" He said "yes" and carried on working. I should have known better than to try social interaction with someone who wore a bumbag all day every day.
There seems to be a raft of people here wanting to get into it, and I've no idea why.
Essentially if you are in your early 20s and have a technical degree and and a little bit of coding experience there is a reasonable chance that you will get offered a grad coders job somewhere.
My assumption is that the people writing the recent threads are probably in their 30s or 40s and do not have a technical degree so the chance of them being offered anything writing C# or Java at an established company is extremely low.
The only two roads into coding I could imagine being successful are:
1. Doing some freelance web design and moving further into proper web development until you have a portfolio of sites you can use to make up for your lack of qualifications.
2. Getting a job as a software tester and getting into automation using Python or Selenium etc.
There is an option 3 which is build some kind of tool to automate an aspect of your existing job, but that requires you working for the right kind of company with the right kind of boss and I'm assuming if it was an option they would be doing it already.
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If you put it in terms of working with wood then it doesn't take very long to learn how to saw a plank in half and you might find a few people who will pay you to do so, but don't expect to spend a couple of weekends in your garage with a chisel and then get a job as a master joiner building chippendale furniture.
You need to be looking at putting a 1000 hours into coding to get any good at it an 10,000 hours to become an expert. It's entirely doable, but you need to love it because it's a lot of work.
I'm mostly .Net (C# and VB.net), T-SQL and some web stuff these days.
To get started I'd get to grips with HTML5, Javascript (JQuery is useful to know) and CSS.
If you are thinking about corporate development then look at either C# or Java. In terms of databases Microsoft SQL Server is pretty easy to get to grips with and T-SQL is both ANSI-92 compatible and well documented on MS books online. SQL server express is free and for learning purposes there is no real difference between it and the bigger versions.
It's probably worth knowing a bit about the software development life cycle and an awareness of agile development methodologies - scrum is probably the most banded about (and worst implemented IMHO:))
Best of luck!