Hey Emile, did you do the E-ship program at UNC by chance? I think I remember you.. Anyway, I'm following the same path (teaching myself to program to work on

Hey Emile, did you do the E-ship program at UNC by chance? I think I remember you.. Anyway, I'm following the same path (teaching myself to program to work on my own projects). It's been fun (some days I feel like I can do anything with a computer) and challenging (other days I want to rip my hair out and hide in despair). I've been doing it for about a year and a half now. I think the biggest challenge with non-programmers learning how to program is that it takes an exceptionally long time to get even the most basic functionality running. So work on the most basic thing, and even if it looks ugly in the beginning, just keep iterating on it. I started with Ruby and Rails, but you can't go wrong with Python and Django in the beginning. If you want to see what lots of time and a little bit of programming on your own can give you, check out my little app www.getsetapp.com. Good luck man, and let me know the next time you're in NC.