Colt Steele's the Web Developer Boot Camp was the first online course I took. I was committed to a career change/learning how to program/do web development and

Colt Steele's the Web Developer Boot Camp was the first online course I took. I was committed to a career change/learning how to program/do web development and his course was the structure I needed at the time. It helped me land my first coding gig too. Thanks Colt. But now I realize how much I don't know :) and why the CS kids I work with have a leg up. I've tried making my way through teachyourselfcs.com, mostly just dipping in here and there. But I've also learned that staring at a glowing rectangle 8+ hours a day doesn't bring me as much joy as does collaboration/empathy/creativity, and that I'm pretty good at design/product stuff (not saying programming can't also elicit said feelings). Life is one big learning journey, and I'm so grateful that one of the by-products of the internet has been the democratization of learning. For $10 dollars and some work ethic you can learn enough to land a completely new job. The paradigm of 4 year college is waning, and that's a beautiful thing.