My journey into learning to code at the age of 50.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis

Why the Swift Logo?

The reason why I want to learn Swift programming is that I have been using Apple products for 25 years, so it feels natural to develop for Apple platforms. I started with "Karel the Robot" challenges and took my first steps in "Swift Playgrounds". Meanwhile, I bought the "Swift Handbook" by Thomas Sillmann and started reading. This is how my journey began in December 2023.

The long and winding road

Almost one year later, I realized that learning to code is not a straight path and that you have to learn many things in parallel. To cut a long story short I made a list of my progress. The biggest mistake I made was my consequent language hopping and loosing focus on my primary goal.

• "Karel the Robot"
• "Swift Playgrounds"
• HTML & CSS
• switching to Python
• launched Website
• Linux Desktop & Server
• VPS-Server running Linux
• Security Basics
• Nginx-Gunicorn-Flask powered backend
• Javascript
• PHP