Learning to Code: A Beginner's Guide for the AI Era

Most people remember the first time they opened a terminal. Maybe it was a Tuesday night, on a laptop at a kitchen table somewhere. The window was black. The cursor blinked. And the person sitting there was completely convinced that every other human on earth had been handed some secret manual they'd never seen. The feeling that everyone else already knows this and I'm the only idiot in the room is the real reason many quit before they start. The work isn't too hard, and they're plenty smart enough. The trouble is that nobody ever hands them a map.