Here’s a really inspiring post from Eddie Chan’s blog about how he learned Python programming with Django in a little over a month. It seems Eddie used to be a product manager and became a startup founder after learning to code and build his own stuff. You might find his path useful to follow.
I have been dabbling with Python and Ruby for a while just as a hobby. I find it so empowering to be able to build prototypes and mess around with APIs and explore different frameworks on my own. I highly recommend it to all product managers that they get their programming skills sharpened a bit. Eddie Chan offers a great way to get started. But there are also some other resources out there as well including:
And there are of course many more, including many tutorials on YouTube. It seems dev training is becoming quite the cottage industry.
