The questions people ask, answered honestly
These pages were not written to sell workshops. I wrote down the things I am asked most often, in a way where the answer is not “sign up with us”. Where the answer points you to a free resource rather than a workshop, that is what it says. The questions come from people learning alone and from managers buying training for a team alike — so the guide is split into four clusters.
Learning to code from scratch: an honest guide
How someone who has never written code should start, which path suits whom, and where people actually give up along the way — without the hype.
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Starting from zero
What someone who has never written code should do, in order.
Where do you start learning to code?
What to do and what not to do in the first week. The setup trap, the right first goal, and why "what should I learn" is the wrong question.
Which programming language should you start with?
Why the choice matters less than you think, and which question to base it on if you do have to choose.
How long does it take to learn programming?
Why nobody can give you an exact figure, which thresholds genuinely exist, and what actually determines the pace.
Which path suits you
Workshop, one-to-one, a corporate day or on your own — which fits when.
Bootcamp, course, or self-taught?
Who each of the three paths suits, what you are actually buying, and when spending money is unnecessary.
One-to-one lessons or a group workshop?
They are not the cheap and expensive versions of the same thing; they are good for different jobs. Which gets you further in which situation, and what the expensive mistake is.
AI tools
What the tools changed and what they did not — for one person and for a team.
If AI writes code, is there any point in learning to program?
The most frequently asked question. What AI actually does, where it gets stuck, and how it has changed the order of learning.
Why do AI tools fail to stick in a team?
If a tool is not sticking, the tool is usually not the reason. The three most common causes, and why all three are about how the training was built.
Teams and companies
Buying AI training for a team: how it is built, how to choose, why it fails to stick.
How do you buy AI training for a team?
The questions to answer before booking AI training for a team — who attends, which piece of work the day is built on, and what is left behind when it ends.
What to look for when buying corporate AI training
Why proposals all look alike, and the four questions that actually separate them: whose work fills the day, who is in the room, where the data goes, and what remains afterwards.
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