How do I get back into programming and what should I be doing?

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I’m a 19 year old and I used to do programming back when I was 6-14, I got into video games and my programming skills declined slowly and quickly. I haven’t done coding in a while besides working on and for minecraft servers but thats about it really. When I was younger I used to do batch and HTML.

I would like to be a developer and make it my career but I don’t know where I would excel or what is good to learn. Some jobs that did look good was app, web, video game, and hardware development but I would like to just pick one.

I would also like to know some websites I could learn programming on for either really cheap or just free. I used to use Code Academy but I don’t know if that’s useful anymore.

Also if anyone says “go to college” I’m already thinking about going to a nearby college but I don’t like school all that much so its a maybe at the moment.

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Use Udemy (Gale Udemy is free with a lot of library’s)

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Your skills declined slowly and quickly?!

Regardless of that, the way to regain skill is to work at it, to practice, to learn.

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Far too many beginners are doing web stuff, the market for juniors who have learned HTML/CSS/JS is oversaturated.

Pick something else, learn it, build projects.

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Your abilities deteriorated swiftly and gradually?

In any case, the only way to regain skill is to put in the effort, practice, and learn.

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