Have you also already read all the articles on Habré about whether it is possible to become a programmer without education, and even if you are not yet a student?))) Let me briefly tell you about my retraining as a developer.
After the 11th grade, I entered college to study specifically “Repair and maintenance of computers and networks”; I was expelled from the second year. This is how my career began: from the beginning I worked as a security guard, then in the army (more precisely, the navy), 3 years of contract service on a submarine, worked in 2 factories, also delivered sushi, worked as a taxi driver, and also as a technician for the repair and maintenance of coffee machines managed to work. Today I am a web developer. Perhaps too short? Let's go back 1.5 years ago... 1.5 years ago ...I don’t remember under what circumstances, but I became interested in how mobile applications generally work? I found the popular channel “Start Android” on YouTube (I don’t know if it’s possible to advertise to other resources, I didn’t read the rules, but anyone interested will get there anyway). Repeating what the guy did in the lessons, I realized one thing, that I didn’t understand anything!!!!!)) They said that you need at least the basics of java, found the google site javarush and the first free 10 lessons flew by, although even in them not always everything it was clear (as it turned out, the java language, and even OOP, is not the easiest for complete beginners). But I was 28 years old and I understood that there was absolutely no time to study languages in a simpler way, i.e. I only needed Java. I paid for a month of premium, it just coincided that I went on vacation at work, and spent the whole day rereading the theory and solving problems. I’ll immediately note that I liked the fact that to solve many problems I had to go to Google (although at first I was sincerely perplexed why, for my money, they didn’t give me all the necessary information in the articles to solve problems????). The month flew by, and I returned to learning how to develop for Android, because... There weren’t really any java vacancies in the city, and mobile apps seemed more interesting to me (I won’t hide the fact that I was sleeping and saw how my apps were downloaded on the playmarket and I was earning money while sitting at home and coming up with what I wanted). I spent quite a lot of time reading the book "Java Philosophy", watching tutorials on YouTube, reading books on Android, until I read an article on Habré about people like me: about people who just learn, read, watch, but do nothing themselves they don’t write............ After that, although with difficulty, I came up with and wrote 2 applications that helped me a little while working in a company where at that time I worked as a technician repairing and servicing coffee machines . The first was a simple counter in which I could choose how many of which ingredients I needed to take with me, and the second was more complicated - a schedule in which all the machines were rewritten for servicing and could be filtered by day of the week. As a result, there was no longer any need to look for where my crooked paper schedule once again went??????? And the most interesting thing in the writing process was learning how to work with the mySQL database). Then I got involved in the development of games for Android, after studying the tools offered on the Internet (the choice was between UNUTY and LibGDX), I chose LibGDX because it required more coding, and this is the only way to develop your skill, I found an excellent group on VK on this topic (it’s the only one there). As a result, I made my first game in a month, but it never saw the light of day, I decided that there are enough games like SUCH on the Internet)) I drew everything myself in Photoshop, I almost completely read the book “You can draw in 30 days”, the material turned out to be quite suitable , I recommend it to anyone who is interested, and my sprites turned out to be quite tolerable. I haven’t given up on the idea of developing games and applications, I’m just still developing on the web. We have now come to a turning point. The wife suggested asking her friend’s husband, who worked in an IT company, and, by the way, also without a specialized education, whether it was possible to get a job with them. In general, we called him and he suggested that we spend a week reading about 1C-Bitrix and coming for an interview. At the appointed time, a meeting was held with the head of the company, at which they came to the conclusion that I would be hired remotely, with a salary of 100 rubles. per hour, and in a couple of months they will decide what to do next. In general, after 2 months I started working full time, with an hourly wage and salary almost at the level of what I received at my last job, with further growth in proportion to my skills. I got into the PHP language quite easily, it’s not for nothing that they say that knowing one language, others are easier to learn, the basics of HTML/CSS are also already par, fortunately, before that I was a little interested in layout. Of course, working programmers will say that Bitrix is a garbage dump, but for me this is my first job in IT, I sit in the office and every day I do what interests me. I’m studying the Bitrix Framework, passing certificates, I’ve already written one of my own components for Bitrix, it will soon be released on the market, while I plan to rewrite it a little, taking into account today’s knowledge. I plan to start learning Drupal after the new year, and I’m already studying javascript in my free time. Ask, where is the connection with javarush?)) Essentially, my journey began from here and I myself re-read all the success stories. If it weren’t for these stories, I might have given up without even going halfway through... The article turned out to be drawn out, I didn’t write about how I learned English from scratch, how the PHP syntax dazzled my eyes at first, and how google and stackoverflow became my best friends, this everything will take just as many beechs)) PS: And yes, at the time of transition to IT I was 29 years old, married, four-month-old daughter and a mortgage. Anything is possible, friends. The main thing to remember is that the best way to learn is practice. Set yourself real tasks, almost every problem can be solved with the help of Google and documentation.
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