Thanks! Well i guess i will try finish that game of mine. It honestly helped me a lot in appreciating OOP and actually getting it right by re-using as much code as i could by segmenting it into separate re-usable parts as opposed to having bloated functions. Its hard to have a passion about something nobody is interested in listening to, i really need to get some developer friends in real life to chat with to spur me on.

I cant commute far and the area i live in doesnt have a big web scene atm (things can change but its pretty dead at the moment) i have to live where i am for family and stability, I guess another possibility i thought of was remote work but wasnt sure where to start and wanted to be confident i could tackle remote employers demands.

Hey goats, thanks for all the replies in here! Really appreciate it

Yeah learning through making is great advice, replicating what you are told lets you repeat one thing, but making something from scratch allows you to create anything.

yeah i have a little experience, Java is looking VERY attractive at the moment. Ill take your advice and have a look at what you have there.

Oooh that looks awesome. I was planning on beinga fullstack dev, i find learning something in one thing helps with understanding things in another.

Thanks. I already know javascript, i really should have put the languages i do know up, but i have used javascript, PHP and C# using OOP and know basic SQL. I was always better at understanding concepts than remembering what they are called so i generally sound bad when talking myself up heh (OOP? whats that again? oh... really? yeah i know that i thought that was just called programming?).

Yeah looking for future employment, what are some good project ideas that employers would like to see? I started making a game in C# from scratch then started to wonder if it were the most productive thing to create, but learned a LOT from making that silly thing. Even made 2D animations and animation functions that would cycle through the images i made.

That is actually really good advice i hadn't considered. I have nearly no network at the moment and i feel like it has hampered me immensely. Ill try get into a local tech group if i can find one, thanks. Not sure what the 'long-tail SEO' site is so cant say i have haha.

Yes, but im still trying to get an idea of where to start to get the most versatile skillset that will give me the broadest range when applying for jobs. I dont want to start something too specialized and wind up with skills that are too niche.

I learned the basic web languages, i should have posted them in my OP so people knew better what im capable of. I can do PHP, HTML5, CSS3, MySql, javascript. My first programming job was as a front-end developer using zurb foundation but they never taught it to me properly so i wound up taking the principles and kind of hammering out my own stuff to fit. They built websites using C#, which stumped me (and again they never taught me how to work around it) so after i was made redundant i went to uni to learn more programming languages and learned C#.

Then i had a kid, moved to another town and needed a job ASAP and wound up doing some brutal labor shit and havent really had the time to sort things out. I did try making a 2d game in C# at one point from scratch to really get the hang of object oriented programming which was great for practice but i wound up getting distracted trying to make a mod for warcraft 3 (thought it would help me understand how the game works but kind of just made things more confusing)

So now knowing that, how useful would learning java and python be in this context? how do they compare to C# and PHP? Java sounds like a brilliant thing to learn for the mobile market and i think id be happier making apps than websites. thanks for the response.

"can ex buzzfeed employeed rejioin the workforce as journalists?" Hahhahahaha

didnt know about it, helps having someone with experience to talk to, i'll take a look at it if the torrent i got turns out dodgy

Just read the user agreement with something about infringing on intellectual property so i see why nobody would touch it.

Is there any site that is safe to find these things? i just dont want to have to trudge through a virus minefield to be able to program in C# again