I can tell you from experience don’t waste your time on learning to code at school. Do it on your own.

Ultimately if you are gonna do anything with it, you’re gonna need self motivation anyways, and employers really don’t care about school they just want to see completed work and that you can answer technical questions. Also that doesn’t even matter if you are just gonna make your own business.

But as far as why school is a waste, also consider...

• 90% of teachers use free online resources anyways, even ones with an assigned text they never use.
• The few that use expensive texts? The texts are outdated quickly, and are less helpful than an online site which can actually demonstrate code and how it works.
• Classes are either extremely slow where you do one tiny thing over a period 10 times longer than it needs to be wasting time, or you do lots of complicated things super quick, moving on to the next thing instantaneously, never actually absorbing any of it just so you can have a complete portfolio of things you can’t even remember how you did them.

I regretted going to school to learn to code and honestly it’s not even a passion of mine.

Code on your own time, and prove to yourself that you have the motivation to learn and want to. And learn at your own pace where you actually understand concepts.

I can tell you from experience don’t waste your time on learning to code at school. Do it on your own.

Ultimately if you are gonna do anything with it, you’re gonna need self motivation anyways, and employers really don’t care about school, they just want to see completed work and that you can answer technical questions.

But as far as why school is a waste, also consider...

• 90% of teachers use free online resources anyways, even ones with an assigned text they never use.
• The few that use expensive texts? The texts are outdated quickly, and are less helpful than an online site which can actually demonstrate code and how it works.
• Classes are either extremely slow where you do one tiny thing over a period 10 times longer than it needs to be wasting time, or you do lots of complicated things super quick, moving on to the next thing instantaneously, never actually absorbing any of it just so you can have a complete portfolio of things you can’t even remember how you did them.

I regretted going to school to learn to code and honestly it’s not even a passion of mine.

Code on your own time, and prove to yourself that you have the motivation to learn and want to. And learn at your own pace where you actually understand concepts.