I landed a software engineering job at Slack without a degree. Here's how I taught myself to code and broke into tech.

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Joel Gratcyk's son Wesley spends a few hours a week learning to code in Python, PHP, and Swift. Wesley started taking free courses when he was 7 and uses both online and library resources. Gratcyk ...

In the end, employers are looking for proven skills more than a degree or certificate. Python is a great, universal language to learn because it is commonly used and easy to understand and use.

Then, each participant came into the laboratory for ten 45-minute sessions to learn the programming language Python through an existing online curriculum called Codecademy.