Thank you so much for this video, I'm 37 and going to dive into this field because it just resonates so much with me. I am fortunate to have a younger sibling that is already in this field and is encouraging and supporting my journey down this road. Who would've thought my childhood nemesis is now my greatest ally at this stage in my life lol! Ahhhh Life is certainly weird. :)

This was so helpful, encouraging and positive. Thank you for making it!

Thanks for this uplifting and smoothing talk. I myself just recently started my journey in coding. I'm switching careers, and I think I made bad choices because I was always way too curious about coding since I was a kid ( Since I saw the movie Hackers - 1995, Iain Softley, I was amazed and thrilled with coding and technology). Well, doesn't matter. Here we are. I'm very grateful for your contribution because it helps us beginners to reduce our anxieties, fears, and just keep going strong. So thanks!

Thanks for the booster. I'm 26 right now and started coding lessons from basic. I'm from non-tech background. I hope changing my career path at this stage won't be regrettable. I don't know anything regarding codes & related stuff. Hope I'll dive in this field successfully & earn a good fortune.

6:30 I fall in love with coding (again) and you, Stephanie. "We've all been there". Thanks for the valuable lessons and encouragement.

Good stuff, I'm much the same way in terms of learning visually. It's a bit crazy how diagramming or modelling a concept can just make it so much clearer, and so much easier to retain and recall.

Thanks for giving us this video, i am almost 50 years old and i have decided to start learning programming, i really like to set automations( i used to do it in spreadsheets , i know it is not the same) but my main goal is to learn IOT. i am confident i will get this goal in the near future!!!

Can certainly resonate with the whole "take a break" advice. Sometimes you get angry with the code and want to win against it defying you, but I've found taking a break and not spending too long on coding is the right way to address this.

Thanks for getting straight to the point

Thanks for taking the time to make this vid.

Thanks so much for making this video! It was really helpful to me!

Thank you for the motivaton and encourgement

Wow, it's like you were speaking to me. I'm dyslexic and some things take me longer to understand just because of the way I think. I too am very much a visual and audio learner. I'm still struggling with the class's concept despite understanding that it is really basic--your example is helpful. Great video and thanks for your honesty.

Thank you, I just started and have been doing codecademy pro for 1 week. I'm a smart cookie but learning something new and trying to apply it immediately makes me realize I don't know anything. I know that what the issue is, its the lack of applying what I'm learning daily. Eventually it will all make sense and your video affirmed that for me; thank you!

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” Earl Nightingale

Thankyou so much for this advice. I realised last month that the only way to repair my career in GIS is to learn how to code/automate because that's what all the employers want these days... it wasn't like that when I started out 9 years ago. It's a daunting prospect because I get frustrated with debugging very easily. I really like your metaphor of writing an essay (because it's something I can relate to) and I'm now feeling significantly more positive.

Good video this is very helpful for me especially the syntax error I feel you there because .I had felt that I sucked at coding because I had so many syntax errors.

im still a bachelor in CS and i dont know alottt of things!! my friends somehow would know more about things than i do (or talk about things ive never heard before) so id feel abit self conscious. im currently trying to make an app (ive no clue how), but it feels like i should know how because i know people that have done so already!! its hard to not compare my progress to others, but i know im trying. I realised that im already doing some of the things you talked about like ask questions and realise that i dont know alot of things. thank you for the video!

Thank you for this video. 🙂

I have 35 years old and for my 8 years so-so of experience I think you nail it. Great video explaining what is programming for newcomers. Solo quiero aclarar que ser programador y saber programar, está separado de conocer un determinado lenguaje, entonces cuando tengas "errores"/bugs en tu código, muchos de ellos serán por error de sintaxis y no por ser mal programador, básicamente es tener claro qué y cómo funcionará tu código, por ello es que "los mejores programadores pueden explicar su código" como dijiste, aprender un nuevo lenguaje de programación es como aprender un nuevo idioma, sabes qué quieres expresar pero no conoces bien las palabras y por eso tenemos bugs, espero nadie se sienta mal por tener errores en su código, es parte de aprender.

I started on neopets too!!! I recognize so many of the things I'm learning with HTML. Really brings me back to childhood haha

Great 👍 video. Thanks for posting

so encouraging! thanks.

best codecademy video so far

I have to agree on the personal learning style. I am a gamer. And it helped me a lot to remember concepts by using RPG games and DnD to visualize them.

awesome video!

I just started coding and its pretty dang hard! :) I'm working hard and I hope it gets better. Great video btw!

Love the video

I love this video. Thank you for taking the time to create it. Can you fix the closed captioning so that the punctuation and words all match what you are saying? I want to use it in my class but it needs to be accessible to anyone that needs CC.

Neopets! Those were the days!

Got it, cache =Cash not caysh. Saving me for my future interview!

I've know people who like to pronounce Cache as 'Ca-shay', seems lots of people have a problem with that word. ;) Good video, some helpful tips!

Omg! NEOPETS! Definitely the reason I started playing around w html as a kid too! Sad I didn't continue pursuing this growing up haha

very verryyyyyyyyyyyyyy helpful...

I loved NeoPets lol...

Am from georgia too💗💗💗

My first time of knowing programming skills.

im new at this and man ill go crazy if I stay on a line for 8hrs straight...

2:49 note to self

Problem solving is walking away, take break and come back! There are many times that the minute I woke up, I instance got the solution that I am not able to solve the previous day! Maybe that is what we called sleeping your problems away. Yup, the brain needs a reset every now and then.

Ah, the way we articulate words we don't know. In the pre-Internet days I thought cache was pronounced French like it looks: "cash-eh". I was corrected by a pretty girl I had a crush on 😩🤣 And as the Internet rolled out to us Plebeans in the summer of 1995, I thought the dots in web addresses was called points. Luckily I only embarrassed myself when I read the correct pronunciation in MacWorld magazine.

i feel like i've hear her voice in a movie or cartoon or something

OMG ASMR I LIIIVE

rest sometimes

i pronounce it as caysh. ill fight anyone who says thats wrong.

i guess nobody ever gave you the cookie-cutter / cookie analogy?

@4:01 using subtitles "to sexually"

Stephanie u so kawaiii~

8 h straright no no i am not getting a snack ;)

Whose goal is to just earn money????

Stop saying 'Hello' !!! Sick.

4:04 Exactly! I wish my English teacher at school knew about this concept. The only thing that matter is your SOLID IDEAS not your grammatical errors. P.S: I still make those errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this is awesome, I just graduated and realized there is so much more I can be doing...have wanted to learn how to do more and more things and have had the hunger and drive to do so but haven't known where to begin. Contemplating going for my master's in computer science but my degree is unrelated but anyhow...this seems like a great place to start. Thank you so much!

Wow, thank you Stephanie! Not really often to have such an enthusiastic presentation about coding.

Such a great tip about being comfortable with debugging. Thanks!

This is extremely helpful video for new coder and beginners of learning to code... This will be watched millions of times and will help new coders... I strongly recommend this video for all new coders.. Thanks many thanks...

Great advice! Very true. Learning to love debugging is probably the HARDEST hurdle to get over. And getting stopped by a really difficult bug is going to make you want to quit. But if you push through and finally solve those bugs, it brings so much relief and happiness that you will fall in love with coding....until the next bug. So expect to have this love-hate relationship and just know that the rewards far outweigh the struggles. Debugging is a major part of coding so don't give up and you will slowly learn to love it.

I appreciate the real and candid info! Thanks!

Stephanie, you're really cool and inspirational :)) Thank you!

thank u so much for this video, I really needed to hear all this things and it really made me more motivated to start programming and not be afraid, so again, THANK U!!

Thanks so much Stephanie

Great advice ,thank you saving my 1 year time

Thanks for these tips ...looks like they can help me learn better way

best of luck Codecademy family!

Cheers for uploading :)

I can sooo relate to the self esteem problem.I am always so scared to ask questions because I am so scared that i will look stupid and it is even more terrifying when u are the only girl in your class.

Jazak Allah 😊 extremely helpful!

Thanks, Stephanie

Good video! Good advices! But I couldn't stop laughing at the auto CC at 3:55 "it's way more important to focus on what's happening to sexually". 😂

Thank you for your video!

Thanks. You are Grate Inspiration.

Very good. Thank you :)

I am on a Robotics team at my middle school, and I started to learn how to program in blockly. I am currently using Codecademy to learn how to program in JavaScript for when I go into high school. Every high school member told me that Java is a better programming language and it gives you more freedom, so that really made me want to learn all the more. Now that I am trying to learn it, Java seems pretty intimidating. This video, however, gave me the what I needed to keep trying to learn JavaScript.

Great talk! I recognized a lot. Every beginning programmer can learn from it. Thanks. Greatest advice, regularly take a brain break. 😁

:P i think i went to college with her XD good job Stephanie!

Stephanie: It was for Neopets. Don't judge. Me, who still checks on my Neopets to this day: Ahahaha...

Can i ever relate to this, my learning style is like yours, i did 3 months of Java script and stopped , the terms were screwing me up, I will be going at it again with your advice. I like the whiteboard idea, a video on your visual pictures you use for terms would be a great idea, )

Thx cool video!!

Merry Christmas All.

do you guys remember Assassin Creed: French Revolution and how they forgot to debugged the game?

tks, Stephanie! videos like yours can be very helpfull for a poor soul like me, lol.

WHOS HERE FOR NEW YEAR?!

Thank you very much, i am a 15 year old boy and i wanna learn the field of programming as much as i can

I expect 1080p videos.

for me the biggest thing is that i have ha habit of writing in first captial letters always :D soo :D

i need a web development telegram group to join. can someone recommend me one

I wish I knew semi colons were optional

*Sees shes Asian and looks in the description to see what this is about more in detail* And to my surprise I find "Learning to code is rife" Funniest shit ever

*const var thankyouStephanie = console.log('This was relatable and awesome!') {* *} else {* 👩🏿‍💻👨🏿‍💻 *};*