how many hours should I study coding per day?

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Im Learning javascript css and html following tutorials

It depends really. If you are completely new to coding in general then I'd say an hour a day is good to start out with so you don't overwhelm yourself. If you are already familiar with other types of coding then I'd say you could spend more time.

I'd also suggest that just following tutorials and copying what they do won't really teach you everything, especially if you are looking to get into a career doing this. Once you learn a new concept try to apply it to a small project of your own that is doable with your current skills, just so that you can get used to solving problems that you will come up against on your own.

Special interest mode is activated I do about 7 hours after breaks a day I guess that’s too much

No-no-no. That's perfect if you are in a flow state, but take breaks at least once an hour, whenever it would not be distracting. And definitely take a break and switch to a different subject or stop for the day when you feel stuck, let your brain process what you have learned.

I love "special interest mode", flow state, this is the most productive mode for learning and working, but gotcha is I tend to neglect recovery and physical activity and it can lead to mental exhaustion and loss of motivation.

When you take breaks don't keep sitting at your computer and don't do anything too distracting. Take a short walk outside if it's not dark already, drink some water and exercise, do some pushups or quick 30-second HIIT exercise, it will boost your cognitive function while your brain is working.

Depends on what your goals are. The harder your goals, the more you have to study

Effort versus efficiency

You have to take into account, if you study too much too often, burnout

How much pizza ya got?

It's good you're having special interest mode though, that's the sign you'll be able to make this into a career.

Well as for 7 hours, I mean a work day is 8 hours, but I still take breaks. If you think you need that special focus to solve a specific problem try to solve that problem first before you take your break, so you don't forget what you're doing. And use those comments as much as possible, there's a specific format for comments in js you'll want to try.

How many hours? It's debatable, but possibly ZERO hours per day. Think about whether or not you really want to choose this career. Sadly, programming or coding is a career that NT's place near the bottom of their bizarre social hierarchy. Are you sure that you want to choose a career that might cause you to be stuck at the bottom?

Think also about the amount of work. Apparently programming or coding is often a large amount of difficult work. NT's usually pay the highest salary to the people who do the LEAST work, such as managers who delegate everything instead of doing the work themselves. The more you work and study, the less you're paid. In general. Exceptions exist. A programming career does work well enough for some people.

If you get highly qualified, then most likely your boss will have less qualifications than you, and you take the risk of making your boss jealous. NT's seem to become jealous very easily. Jealousy or envy then leads to unfair treatment and then sometimes to outright abuse. Choose wisely. It's a difficult decision. It's a wild insane jungle out there.

Programming is a really well paid job

It really depends on the rest of your day/schedule. My partner is a data/controls engineer (building AI specialist), and he studies 2 hours of coding (wakes up at 4am and studies until 6am). He also works a full time remote job and has to have time for his family.

If you don't have many other responsibilities, you can increase this amount, of course.

Programming CAN be a well-paid job, but I've also heard horror stories. For example, earlier this year, I overheard a manager saying:



In a typical medium or large corporation, the programmer is at the bottom of the social hierarchy, and he or she has a chain of coworkers who are ranked higher than him/her. The immediate boss is often called a "Program Manager". The Program Manager's job is considerably easier than the programmer's job, but the Program Manager is usually paid more than the programmer. Depending on the size of the corporation, there may be 5-20 people above the programmer (counting all the way up to the CEO), and everyone in this chain is paid more than the programmer, even when the programmer has attended a university and is highly qualified.

some of the worst advice in my life was the onslaught telling me to forget about web design.

Good point. Does the OP want to go more in the direction of web design, or more in the direction of javascript and programming? The OP mentioned javascript, which overlaps both web and programming careers. That's something for the OP to think about and choose: Web design or software programming? I'd agree that web design could be a better choice than focusing on programming.

yeah im looking at web design