100% agree. I think the best way to learn to code is to... write a lot of code. I'd bet that's how most of the self-taught people here learned. Shameless plug:

100% agree. I think the best way to learn to code is to... write a lot of code. I'd bet that's how most of the self-taught people here learned. Shameless plug: in Hack Club (https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub), our approach to teaching is to not actually "teach". Instead, we have a bunch of open-source workshops (https://workshops.hackclub.com https://workshops.hackclub.com) that walk high schoolers through the process of building a real thing (using real code), like a website or game. We don't expect them to understand everything that's happening. In fact, we expect learners to not understand 90% of what's happening -- our goal is to get people excited about hacking and have most of the learning happen when they're googling to build their own projects.