This article is a really odd read for me. What sticks out is the idea of learning to code with the idea of becoming 'Job Ready'. As others have said, seemingly

This article is a really odd read for me. What sticks out is the idea of learning to code with the idea of becoming 'Job Ready'. As others have said, seemingly treating the process as a means to an end rather than a journey in and of itself. No one learns to walk in order to hike up mountains. We start out with a fuzzy basic idea that it'd be cool if we could just move across the floor a bit and get closer to somewhere. And oh, isn't it fun to watch the world fly by! Programming has always been that way for me. Making a computer print Hello World on the screen, and then draw a circle, and maybe calculate some primes, and so on... the entire process is learning. You're always learning. In those early days I had no magazines, no Internet, no peers to compare myself to... I just sat at a screen and tinkered, cobbling together bits from various scripts and tinkering. Mastering it - now that's a different kettle of fish entirely. Maybe it's some sort of capitalistic artifact, the drive to push faster and harder and more efficiently. Not being able to sit back and just, be, without constant comparison or anxiety.