What would you guys say is a good strategy to learn coding. I'm a U.S Marine, waiting to pick up on my MOS school at 29 palms. I will be dealing with coding and I want to get ahead before I pick up my MOS school. What do you guys recommend I learn and a good source to learn fast.

@g-m-f Not yet, possibly networking. Also I want to learn to mod video games, and app development.

@g-m-f also hacking because I will probably be doing that

Thanks man, my goal is to increase military security one of these days and just update the entire system of it. Then when I'm done serving develop video games and apps. @g-m-f

Semper Fi from a Marine Dad! Welcome to devRant!

@iAmNaN Semper Fidelis! The reason I'm doing coding is because my MOS is 0651, changing to 0671 due to modernization.

Study up on Sharepoint and Microsoft Server 2012, devil.

@LiquorFueled will do, and thank all of you guys for all the tips. Will give it some practice for a while and see where I branch out from there.

@g-m-f projecteuler is kinda hard for a beginner.

I would suggest codingame. It's extremely fun, less hard, and there is no "right" solution. Everything works if doesn't have errors. The question is in performance.

- Decide what kind of job you want/what you'll be dealing with
- Find out the fundamental things you need to know for that role
- Research a great, well recommended, absolute beginners course to teach you what you need to know (free/paid, videos/books/text whatever works)
- Start the course and stick to it, it's very easy to get distracted with the next shiny thing you see but keep at what you're doing
- Whenever you feel ready (preferably while you're working through the course/book/whatever) start practicing you skills by making small real life projects, these will teach you the fine details of what you need to know
- For a job in the industry: Build a portfolio and start applying for jobs even if you don't feel totally ready, no one really does ;)
- Good luck!

For web dev (both front end and back end) have a look at freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project and see if you like them, they guide you through a lot of this process and are great communities and resources

@Starjams CodeWars is great to practice mini concepts too