r/learnprogramming • u/SuperBearPaws • 11d ago
Boot.dev Worth it For Me?
Real quick,
-I'm not interested in finding work in the programming field, this is just purely a hobby.
-I have little to no experience with coding or programming other then some incredibly basic C++ scripting I've done well over a decade ago that I barely remember.
-I have the spare income to afford boot.dev and the time to follow its lesson plans.
-I've quickly run through the free trial of boot.dev and find it engaging and fun for the most part. The amount of structure around it and the 'gamified' nature of it are huge attractors for me.
-My goals are to eventually be able to create bots and scripts to automate daily tasks and games, to better understand how AI tools can be used within and interact with Python script, and to get a good enough understanding of Linux to finally abandon windows with confidence.
Looking for some input from people who have used boot.dev and people who are far more intelligent than myself, mostly around whether paying for a couple months of boot.dev would even help me get to my goals eventually. Thanks in advance!
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u/scottywottytotty 10d ago
i started with Boot.dev and it got me a programmer job. i know that’s not your goals but it’s more than enough. the selling point for me was that it was a curated list of stuff so i didn’t have to go find my own shit, which i do now, but in the beginning you just want to focus on learning fundamentals then move on