I'm a self-taught programmer, my background is actually in Financial Economics. I believe the best way to teach yourself is to solve your own problem or build

I'm a self-taught programmer, my background is actually in Financial Economics. I believe the best way to teach yourself is to solve your own problem or build something you're truly passionate about. You can either do something new or improve something you currently use. This is how I taught myself to code in PHP, although now I can also write applications in Python.