I am almost 40 years old and I just realized what i want to do with my life. I want to be a software developer. It's more than a passion it's an addiction. I have a good enough career as a field service engineer for a critical power company but I feel like its what I fell into and settled for. My GI Bill expired so I have to get all my knowledge for free online. It has been a rough road but I can't stop. not because I'm so driven but because just learning to write code is an adventure. I wish learning simple things like data binding wouldn't take so long but when you don't have an instructor to ask when you don't understand something every lesson is a long and drawn out. I hope I can get some help here.