Is it too late to start programming?

Question

IT education

Hey!
Since childhood, I was friends with computers and almost always among my friends and acquaintances I was an assistant on any computer issues. At school, I preferred history, literature, the Russian language, and connected my further studies at the university with these disciplines. With mathematics, which is the most interesting, it also went well, but I did not betray this significance.
Even in the process of studying, I got a part-time job where it was easy for me, where I could solve some small computer problems.
After graduation, my friends invited me to work as an administrator, then I tried my hand at protecting information, now I'm testing banking software. I am no longer looking for ways to the humanitarian jungle and do not want to.
I work with scripts. I don't feel any problems when working with HTML, CSS, XML. Interest in programming began to appear, simple programs were obtained at the level of first-year labs at the institute.
And now I have the following questions:
1) Is it too late to start programming at the age of 25?
2) Wouldn't a person of 26-28 years old repel an employer at an interview by presenting a diploma in the humanities, and in general, is it not quite wild to go to a junior at that age?
3) Do I need to go back to school? If so, is it an apprenticeship from scratch or a master's degree with an existing diploma? The significance of such a diploma is also taken into account in the case of emigration to absolutely any country.
I want to apologize if everyone is already tired of such posts. I often find here something similar and I want to ask what worries me.

Answer 1

Stop whining and asking for forgiveness.

Answer 2

One well-known junior once said "Learn to learn and study again" and bequeathed, the great Lenin, by the way, he also fell into the category of a junior, he carried out a coup in the country for the first time, it should be noted - successfully.
So, it's never too late to learn.

Answer 3

And now I have the following questions:
1) Is it too late to start programming at the age of 25?

So you ask, as if you are about to retire. People start much later. The only difference is that if you want to do it at a professional level, then you will have to study more quickly. So to say "five-year plan for 2 years." The main feature is not age, but brains. What is the use of the fact that a person has been programming since his student days, but does not grow professionally.
Therefore, if you are serious, and not in the style of “I heard something like loot there, the topic is relevant, there is some kind of shortage of personnel, let me try to climb there too,” then the road is open to you and there are opportunities.
I think it will rather than not. If at interviews you always went through an adequate technical specialist who would reasonably see that you have more potential for professional growth than many graduates, then there would be no wildness. But in practice, you will encounter situations when HR girls will not see this, and will filter by this criterion too ("oooh ... he is so old and has no experience as a programmer? - hopeless!"). On the other hand, as it is written, "knock and it will be opened to you."
If the question is about emigration, then a diploma is needed, and not just any. In Russia, the situation is also not the most certain, so if you still physically have the strength, then it’s probably better to enroll in a correspondence course for a second higher education. Just keep in mind that studying at a university will have few points of contact with real industrial programming, so, in addition to preliminary study of OOP and the language, you will have to:
1. Work as a junior
2. Actively study the technologies you work with and
3. Study the university program, take sessions) - not everyone can master it right away at the start.

Answer 4

1. It's not too late. I am 29 years old and I am going to become a junior. :o)
2. It depends on what area of ​​programming you want to try yourself: if web development, then no one will need a diploma. A lot depends on the company.
3. Again: if web development, then for the sake of it, it’s not worth going to get a second tower, perhaps. As far as I know, not every university in Moscow now has a degree. Major universities don't have it. I'm studying at MTUCI as a part-time student in my second year. So far, theoretical training in computer science is extremely weak. And the rest of the items are not particularly annoying. You need to learn everything yourself. Programming studied and I study independently. The university will not help you in this matter.

Answer 5

I am 25 years old, a girl with a liberal education. In 2 months I mastered layout from scratch, made simple layouts on freelance. I've been working in QA for half a year now, I've improved JS and the other day I'm being transferred to the front-end. They looked at my work, and not at age or diploma.
The main desire! Good luck!

Answer 6

According to the title, I presented a message like: "Is it too late to start programming? After all, it's already five o'clock in the evening and it's time to go home :("

Answer 7

Zaochka from scratch, I think more correctly.
Programming at the University gives knowledge (although part-time, rather more self-study) in such subjects as OOP, SAOD (structures and algorithms), Assembler and other related programming.
There are no such subjects in the humanitarian university.
As for the age, in my opinion it absolutely does not matter, especially at the correspondence school, there are quite a lot of students of different ages.

Answer 8

The very fact of such a question points to the answer.