How do you learn about computer coding and networking without getting a job in the industry?
So, it really depends on how technical you are, what you want to accomplish and what your budget is. Pretty much any technology you want to learn will have for-pay classes that you can take. For a certain kind of student, those are great. There are also good books (but you need to find them among the bad ones). I like the Teach Yourself Visually series of books very, very much. I taught myself PHP (a web-scripting language) and Macromedia Fireworks from these books. Is your goal to eventually get a job or is this personal satisfaction? Are you willing to start small? I’d suggest learning MS Office and VBA (the Office macro-programming language) to get started. This could give you enough skills to sell your time in that capacity and would also give you fundamental understanding of programming. Also, it would be an easy step up to VB.NET which is a very robust, all-purpose, easy to read programming language. If you have specialty goals (game programming, low-level network stack manipulat
