There was one moment that changed everything for me, and it was the day I installed VS Code and ran my first line of Python.
I'd been obsessed with websites for years. I always wanted to understand how they worked, but I never made the time to learn properly. It felt like a different world that other people lived in.
Then in 2024 I opened ChatGPT and typed something simple: "I don't know anything about code. I haven't even installed VS Code. But I've seen people doing this. Can you guide me, step by step, until I get my first Python script running?"
Screenshot, "what's next", repeat
It gave me a wall of instructions and it was completely overwhelming. So I didn't try to do all of it. I did the first instruction only. Then I took a screenshot of whatever I was looking at, threw it back, and asked: "okay, what's next?"
I did that all day. First instruction, screenshot, "what's next." Second, screenshot, "what's next." Back and forth, again and again, until eventually my first Python script ran. All it did was organise some folders. But that was the pivot point.
That's the moment I crossed over into the world of coding and building. Today I run a technology and marketing consultancy. We build apps and websites. Two years ago I wouldn't have believed it if someone from the future had told me.
The takeaway
So my advice is simple: give it a try. You never know what's going to happen. It has genuinely never been easier to learn how to code or how to build a website, and the reward is so much bigger than you think.