What are the Age Limits in Programming?

Question

PHP

I am 27. I have had a computer since I was 5 years old. Was a nerd even before it became mainstream. He studied at a technical school as a programmer, but later he abandoned this business, since the vacancies in the city were mainly an enikey worker and have not been doing anything since then. A year ago, he moved from sunny Odessa to cold Moscow. I changed my lifestyle to a healthy one and enlightenment came that I still need to do what I like. A couple of months ago, I began to actively study java, and in my free time from java, I understand php, js, sql, as an idea for an online portal and an application to it appeared.

Actually, I ask for advice: is it too late for me, because everyone around is 19-20 years old and with practical experience, but I have nothing to brag about. It is given in principle easily, since I used to have experience in applied programming in Delphi and VB, and this is interesting to me. Can you advise me to start a career, since now I work in a completely different field with a tight schedule and purely physically, there is not enough time and energy to get to the bottom of it faster.

Update 2020:

Who cares - I've been working as a dev, lead for two years, I started in load testing and integration tests in Java. half a year later became salesforce dev. there already angular, java, js and salesfocrce languages ​​and technologies have caught up.

As a conclusion - do not be afraid of anything and do not stop trying. Agree to any, even free work - since real experience gives 1000 times more than educational practices.

Answer 1

Once a day, a similar question consistently appears. I'm 28, a year ago I didn't know anything about HTML, or CSS, or JavaScript, or PHP. Today I work in a good company, my layout is a solid 4, JavaScript is 3+ (JQuery library mostly, but I can write something useful in pure language), I started learning PHP a month ago, but I already have pretty good results. Was it difficult for me in the beginning? Yes! I didn't know anything about this area. I slept for 4 hours a day right next to the computer, the template was torn apart and I started talking to myself aloud. I didn't have a choice to teach today or not. I had a choice to go piss and continue to teach, or still be patient, and then go when it was unbearable. And now I am in the field that I like, I am constantly learning and I will not stop. So if you're sure it's yours, then by hook or by crook teach, try, delve into. And everything will work out)

Answer 2

There are no restrictions. I'm 34 and I started a year ago. The main thing is to like it and have a goal.

Answer 3

No age limit

Answer 4

I started programming professionally at 26, it was hard but interesting. For a couple of months of active study, I didn’t shake much and was able to get a job. 8 hours of work, 15 minutes of lunch and another 45 minutes of work, I returned home and worked for another 3-4 hours to keep up with everything on time. After half a year I was able to go to a normal lunch and not work at home. Now I’m only studying new things and my own projects at home)
In general, yes, it’s not too late ...
But there are facts that you can’t argue with, the brain actively develops until the age of 25, by 30 the growth of neural connections slows down and it will be more difficult to form the necessary mechanisms of thinking ...
PS
My grandfather is 84 and he signed up for facebook before me...

Answer 5

27 years. 27 Carl!
And it's time to ask yourself, is it too late?
Censored comments somehow do not come to mind.

Answer 6

How did they talk there? - "If you really want to, you can fly into space"
In general, the following skills are needed:
1. Patience
2. Persistence
3. Willpower
4. A bit of logic
Moreover, if one of your skills is very highly pumped, it can compensate for the lack of another . The rest is acquired empirically.
With age, there are simply more burdensome factors and many of us concentrate on everyday life and routine.

Answer 7

Kamrad, only you are your own limitation.

Answer 8

32 years. Only six months since I started working as a front-end developer. I learn faster and more purposefully than at 22. A conscious decision to become a programmer and perseverance is the main thing. Everything will work out if you strive.

Answer 9

I came to another country at the age of 36 from Russia, without programming experience, I had only a polytechnic under my belt, and then a "radio engineer" (although during my studies, programming was taught in our course in full: Ada, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, C, C ++ .. to assembler), but due to the minimum wages at that time, he did not work in his specialty at all. After I moved, I began to study hard, took a DBA course, mastered Objective C, worked for a year and a half in a startup... well, in general, now I’m 46, while I don’t feel like a pensioner .. and you are worried at 27 :)

Answer 10

What restrictions can be?
There is only one thing - the brain of a teenager assimilates knowledge faster than that of an adult

Answer 11

there are limitations that start to appear in the brain after 25 years. Depending on the mental activity, they can be extremely insignificant, or at the age of 30 they can make a lazy conservative out of a person.
changes are just related to the ability to learn and remember - the formation of new neural connections.
as you know, for old people (most) it is unrealistic to even learn how to use some kind of gadget, because their brain has already lost almost the ability to form new neural connections.
hence the conclusion - if you always strive for something new, then it will be quite easy and simple to study it.

Answer 12

There are no age restrictions. There are no physiological ones. There may be psychological ones (and you have now, since you are already asking this question at 27), but this is treated. The brain, like muscles, can and should be trained constantly , until the last breath.

Answer 13

Quit or change your job to a less stressful one and study.

Answer 14

There is only one problem - will it be easy for you if you are commanded by a 20-21 year old kid?

Answer 15

Actually, I ask for advice: is it too late for me, because everyone around is 19-20 years old and with practical experience, but I have nothing to brag about.

You're lucky to have only hackers with vast experience around you - it's easy to learn in such an environment, it's easy to improve your skills....
But, I think, "everyone around" with 20 years of experience is a clear exaggeration.
I saw exactly three people who at the age of 20 were something of themselves in programming. And this despite the fact that I have been professionally engaged in this type of activity for more than 20 years.
For more than 20 years - only 3 people were caught with experience of 19-20 years.
99.99% and at 22 years old - no experience.
Another thing is that you are unlikely to become a programming star.
But the stars are few.
Everyone needs simple workhorses.

Answer 16

A good answer was on quora https://www.quora.com/At-what-age-is-too-late-to-s...

Answer 17

It depends on the person. Some do not want to study even at 20, some even start a new business at 60.

Answer 18

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments...

Answer 19

Hello from Odessa! :)
Related: no, it's not too late, it's never too late. Take a 27-year-old June, often better than 20, because. a person more clearly understands his goals and is ready to work to achieve them, and a student can change his mind at any moment - decide that the technologies are not cool enough, "not agile" or something else. So age is not a problem at all.
What to learn:
you have a desire to make a portal and an application to it - great! Just throw out PHP from there and write the portal in Java, which you also learn. Make a mobile application on the same java (for android).
Learn and achieve your goals, isn't it wonderful.
Here is a cool article on what to learn, I recommend it:
dou.ua/lenta/articles/java-enterprise-guide
I would recommend reading "Philosophy of Java" and "Clean Code" (at least the first pages 100-200)

Answer 20

I am 53. 24 years in programming. No problem. But there are a lot of ideas not implemented ...

Answer 21

No, don't even try. At 27, you need to be at least a team leader or an architect. No one will wait for you to catch up. There is already an overabundance of personnel on the market, crowds of programmers with months of experience looking for work, where are you going?
No, of course, you can get a job at the "Sites from Magi" office, but from whom will you gain experience, from people like you?

Answer 22

There are no restrictions at all, for example , programmers from 12 to 45 years old are gathered at WillDev !

Answer 23

From the age of 60, freelancing is not recommended, since the vision is no longer the same, and the hands are shaking, the grandchildren are running around the apartment, confusing. Otherwise, there are no restrictions, even if you write code from birth.

Answer 24

there are limitations, but they are individual. on average, 27 years is the penultimate car, if from scratch. but you have something from scratch.

Answer 25

Maybe you can advise me to start a career, since now I work in a completely different field in a tight schedule and purely physically, I don’t have enough time and energy to get into it faster.

And who promised quickly?

Answer 26

olejoman : 18+, and up to 18 you need to learn math at school and teach well. Also focus on improving English.

Answer 27

I'm actually 14.

Answer 28

Only you set limits for yourself, if you decide that it's too late, then it's too late. If you decide that you will do it, then you will do it. Sooner or later, it all depends on the plan and understanding of the essence, so as not to spray on distracting things and not waste time.

Answer 29

I also started at 27. Before that, I read books, wrote and uploaded projects to github for about a year (then it came in handy at the interview). As a result, I got a job and now I work as a programmer. But it helped me a lot that I had previously worked as an administrator, so that the knowledge of programming that appeared could be applied immediately at the old job.
In general, the main obstacle at this age, it seems to me, is money. It's hard to force yourself to give up a normal salary and start again at the minimum. I had to specially save up so that later I could work for a penny for the first months.