596 Hours Learning to Code

Total Days 365

Total Earned $6,675

I try and focus on one thing each year. First it was meditation, then it was swing dancing, one year I read a book a week, last year I tried to start a business a month.

One year ago today, I decided to learn how to code.

I set myself the challenge to make $10,000 dollars learning how to code in 365 days or less. I made $6,675 building websites and developing software this year.

I realise this is not very much money to make in one year.

On the other hand, I didn’t know what HTML was when I started and coding boot camps cost upward of $10,000 for the same experience.

In total, I spent 596 hours learning how to build web applications.

The learning came in bursts, it was not evenly spread through the year.

The huge spike in the summer came from being accepted into a coding boot camp in London called Founders and Coders.

All of this was only possible because I got into Founder and Coders. They are a cooperative that offer free training for those bold enough to apply. I am immensely grateful for the learning opportunity they gave me.

So far, I have done a terrible job of documenting my experience and putting my portfolio together. I will do my best to share what I learned and show off my work on this blog over the next two months.

This is the Founder and Coders Website

This was the post I wrote exactly one year ago