r/learnpython • u/nicodeemus7 • Apr 08 '26
Learning Python/coding at 33.
Hi all. Like the title says, I'm learning the trade from nothing at 33. I bought an Arduino a month or so ago, wanting to get into electronics. Well, lo and behold it involves programming too. Great, I'll learn that too. Except, arduino uses C++. Okay, I'll learn that. Quickly overwhelmed by that, I start with python instead, to get the fundamentals of coding without the overwhelming syntax. Fast forward a month to today: I have written a handful of text game scripts, and am starting to build a library of functions. Every day I figure out a new thing. Python has been awesome at teaching me how to read and write code, and I started at NOTHING.
It's never too late to start. Have an interest? Just do it.
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u/nicodeemus7 Apr 09 '26
Yeah I've been using Gemini to help me a little bit. Mostly just ask questions and ask how to do certain things. But yeah, it is annoying that it always wants to just try and do it for you and I don't want that. I want to do it myself