IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CODE IN 2024

If you want to learn how to code in 2024, then this is the video for you. And if you're already, make sure you give me a follow if you want to help you learn programming. Learning programming seems to be one of the most exciting things that you can do today. Not only can you turn it into a side shuffle, but you could also use it to get a real programming job. But learning to code can be a very difficult thing to do, especially because you don't know where to start. In one of my previous videos, I talked about decision paralysis. It's when you're making the decision and you have so many options to the point where you end up getting overwhelmed. And you don't know what to do and you eventually just give up. This is probably one of the most common things when it comes to learning programming. There's so many different ways you can do it today and there's so many different approaches that people recommend. And you just spend hours, days, watching YouTube videos trying to figure it out. So what I'm going to do is give you a quick three-step plan for 2024 to stop your overthinking and to actually push you to learn programming. I'm not going to give you the reasons or justifications. Before you continue, make sure you save this so you don't forget. Number one, the first thing you need to do is pick a programming language that you want to learn. I'm going to tell you straight off the bat that you need to learn Python. Go on to YouTube and look at how you can set up and install Python 3. That's step one done, you don't need to spend any more time looking at articles on which programming language to learn. Now we can move on to step two. Number two, you need to come up with a very simple project of something that you want to build. Now you're probably going to flip the question right back at me and ask what should I build? And I'll answer by telling you the easiest thing to build at the beginning, especially with Python is a web scraper. They just go hand-in-hand together and there's plenty of tutorials online for this. Pick one website that you visit frequently, maybe a website that you shop on, and then just decide what you'd like to scrape off of that website. Maybe if it's a website that sells closed, you want to scrape the prices, the name of the products or items that are on discount. That's step two out of the way. You've got Python installed and you have your project in mind. This is the last and final step. Pick three evenings this week that you can free up. That means re-arranging any plans that you had. I know this sounds harsh but hear me out. You need three dedicated distraction free evening where you can spend some time to actually zone in and write some code. This is going to build up initial momentum and motivation for you to then continue afterwards. But the point is you're making a commitment and somewhat of a sacrifice. And because you're re-arranging your plans, you're picking three evenings that you are otherwise busy, and because of that you're putting yourself somewhat under pressure to make the most of them. Don't underestimate the power of this pressure as a good motivator. I did say that there were three steps, but there's just one more. Right now, I want you to go into YouTube and type in Python scraping. I'd love to plug my own YouTube channel right now, but I haven't made any videos about Python scraping. Quickly have a look, maybe click on a few videos, watch a few minutes from each of those videos and decide which one of those YouTubers that you like. Once you've got that note down find one of their videos that you can use as a starter and that's going to be your starting point for your three evening sprint. So that gets rid of any barriers and you know on your first evening exactly where you're going to start. All right, best of luck, let me know how it goes. If you find this helpful, make sure you follow for more.