re: Software guys of the OT. Questions about coding/getting started.

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My question is that if I completed a coding bootcamp would I be likely to land a job in the field and what kind of entry level pay would I be looking at roughly if so?

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I'm not saying don't learn to code, but AI is going to kill coding in the long term, maybe even medium term. What it's not going to kill, at least not as quickly, is problem solving. I have had AI write entire scripts for me, but I had to very explicitly tell it what I had and what I wanted. When it ran into problems it didn't know how to solve, I had to figure out how to get it to approach it another way.

If you are serious about this, I wouldn't approach it as "what language should I learn." I would pick some problems to solve with the help of an AI coder. Remember that most programs are doing some variation of taking input in, transforming it in some way, and spitting the transformed data back out. Do something with advanced stats in a sport you follow. Take some pictures of your grandma's handwritten recipes and turn them into a phone app of digital recipes. Scrape a message board and perform a sentiment analysis of the messages to prove which board sucks the most.

The point is come up with a real "problem" that you want to solve, because that's what coding is, using computers to solve problems. And if you're looking for a job in "coding" these projects will be your resume. Businesses aren't looking for someone that can write a Hello World program, they want someone that has experience solving the same kind of problems they are trying to solve.

Probably the best place to start for you is Bing Copilot or Google Gemini. They are free AI chat bots. You can even ask them to be your coding teacher and come up with a curriculum for you.