7 Ways to Earn Money From Coding and Programming

Feel you could make money from coding? Here are all the ways to earn money programming as a freelancer.

Are you planning to develop skills in programming? Perhaps you've already delved into it but not sure about the available opportunities? Or have you been coding for some time now but looking forward to tapping more opportunities?

Here is the thing; programming is one of the most lucrative skills out there today, offering unlimited opportunities for creative ideas that can get you some extra cash. Consequently, you can become the boss of yourself if you put your mind to some of these ideas. Here are some money-making ideas you should consider as a programmer.

1. Freelancing Online

Freelancing can be frustrating sometimes. But with the appropriate online freelancing platforms, the right mindset, and marketing skills, you can get consistent gigs that pay the bills.

While sourcing for gigs in your locality is also a great idea, virtual gigs online have many advantages as you can reach out to more clients. Additionally, most online gigs also run remotely without you needing to see the client physically. For freelancing online, here are some ideas you can try out below.

Use Dedicated Freelancing Platforms

Thankfully, there are now a couple of great freelancing platforms for specific jobs , including the ones where people hire programmers online.

Companies and individuals now resort to these platforms to get works done faster. Computer science students and researchers also target freelance programmers to solve coding problems. More importantly, they're willing to pay for the value you offer.

Your aim on freelancing platforms is to build trust and get more positive reviews. One of the ways you can achieve that is to build a top-notch portfolio and develop a consistent brand for yourself .

Get Gigs via Social Media Platforms

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However, there are no rules that restrict you online. In addition to registering and building your profile on dedicated freelancing platforms, you can also connect with clients via social media platforms and get busy with your IDEs.

For example, LinkedIn is a social media platform where you can build an online resume, market your skills, and connect with potential and active clients. Many employers also source for remote programmers via the platform, and you can always apply to this pool of coding jobs and gigs.

In addition to LinkedIn, you can get gigs from other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, among others as well. However, what's most important is how you market yourself and connect with clients.

2. Online Programming Tutorials

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Many people want to learn to code and won't hesitate to pay a competent tutor. As a result, posting long and short tutorial videos online is another smart way to make money from coding.

Learning platforms like Udemy are places where tutors create free teaching accounts, organize courses, and sell them to their audience. New and even some senior programmers also resort to platforms like YouTube to solve coding problems.

Most of these teaching platforms also serve a large organic audience. If you put in great efforts and you're consistent, you'll get your audience and start getting paid.

While some online tutoring platforms require a good microphone that may cost a bit, it costs nothing to set up a YouTube channel and start posting videos. You also don't need a camera to start putting out your videos online. All you need for a start is an efficient screen recorder and perhaps a clean microphone for better voice quality. However, you can gather more sophisticated streaming tools as you proceed along the line.

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In addition to making money, organizing online tutorials exposes you to new challenges and lets you learn more about what you teach. It also offers you the opportunity to put yourself out there and build a brand. Some of your audience can even contact you for a side gig along the way.

3. Develop Valuable Enterprise Apps and APIs

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Although building enterprise apps and APIs might seem like a long term goal, putting your time into making innovative ones is worth it. It's a promising way to make passive income.

However, to be successful and have more users consume them, APIs and enterprise apps must address a particular problem. Otherwise, it's not worth it. Although most APIs out there are open-source, some still require users to pay some amount of money for things like security tokens.

When you launch your tool, have it in mind that it's not yet popular. So, charging users for it straight away might discourage people from using it. However, you can let them start on a free trial, and if they find it valuable, some users won't mind paying for it.

Because you're the developer and you don't have to pay anyone for doing the job for you, the development phase of APIs and enterprise apps won't cost you a dime. However, you only need some seed money to push it up for deployment and advertisement. Besides, you're more convinced than not that you'll make passive income later, so it's worth the risk.

One way to push your enterprise app is to advertise for traffic on various platforms. To make money from it once people start using your tool, you should consider placing basic and premium values on it.

4. Blog About Coding

If you love to communicate through writing, you can put that to use by writing blog posts on topics that discuss how to solve coding problems. It's another way to break away from routine as a programmer.

Although monetizing your blog can be a long-term thing, it's worth trying out, especially if you have a writing passion. Apart from generating direct income, writing about coding can also open opportunities for collaboration with other programmers online.

However, you don't have to own a blog to write coding articles online. Some existing publishers are willing to pay you for contributing to their blog. Once you brush up on your technical writing skill and your ability to simplify complex topics through writing, you can reach out to a couple of them online.

5. Develop Open Source Coding Tools

Open-source software can be a tool that improves people's productivity. You can create data science and machine learning tools and modules with languages like Python and C++. Then you can put them up as open-source plugins for a particular software like Excel, Tableau, or Microsoft PowerBI.

You can even build language-specific free coding tools to make software development and deployment seamless for other programmers.

Indeed, open-source tools don't aim to make money for their creators. But if yours is unique and has the potentials to attract high demand, there are a couple of ideas you can try out to monetize it.

For example, you can place features like technical support and plugin support under a license purchase category. That doesn't stop users from using the tool freely if they want. Examples of such existing tools are Sublime Text and Software as a Service (SaaS) tools like WordPress.

However, another idea is to allow support funding for your open-source tool. Doing this can generate income from individuals who don't want you to discontinue your service. It lets you offer all features for free while making money at the same time.

6. Go for Coding Challenges and Contests

Whether you're new to coding or not, it's a great idea to get into coding challenges online. In addition to making instant cash, competitions test your skills and expose you to more opportunities.

Thankfully, there are many coding challenge websites online where you can earn cash for winning a coding challenge or solving a particular problem uniquely.

Although you can make money from these competitions, they let you think critically. Consequently, they can also help you come up with new ideas and brilliant programming inventions.

7. Sell Language-Specific Ebooks

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If you're a pro in a particular programming language and you know how to put words together to make a teachable curriculum, then it's probably time you put an ebook up for sale.

Many newcomer programmers and even pros opt for such books as they find them helpful and more reachable when they need them. When you write such books, you should consider marketing them for sale to your target audience via social media.

You can then sell them through websites like Amazon, eBay, or Bookfinder. However, unlike their solid counterparts, ebooks have the potential to reach more people.

Take Advantage of Your Coding Skills

It's great to go for technical interviews and write coding exams to get a formal job in a company, but it doesn't work out for everyone. Even if you're a full-time employee already, it doesn't stop you from trying out some of these ideas to earn extra income from coding.

As we pointed out earlier, programming is a valuable skill. If you're determined, boundless opportunities are lurking around for you. So, nothing stops you from trying them out.

How To Get Paid While Learning To Code

Daniel Daines-Hutt

Daniel Daines-Hutt

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Here at Zero To Mastery, we pride ourselves on giving you the best coding education that we can, along with the most efficient and quickest path of what you need to learn so that you can get hired asap.

It’s why we’ve had students get hired after just 4 months of learning to code , and why we also help you ace the coding interview and learn kick ass soft skills .

So if you learn with us and follow our programming roadmaps , chances are very high that you can get hired quickly, but what if you wanted to recoup or cover some of your learning costs as soon as possible?

What if you wanted to start getting paid for coding while still learning to code and before you even got that full-time job?

What if your goal is to dive into freelancing, start earning ASAP, and skip the full-time job route?

Or what if you’ve already learned to code and have a job, but want to figure out a few ways to get paid even more while still learning and progressing, and not just by skilling up into a more senior role or language?

Well, that’s what we’re going to cover in today's guide, so let’s dive in!

But don’t I need to know ‘everything’ first before I can get paid to code? 🤔

Here’s the thing that stumps most smart people, but no, you don't need to know everything.

You see, when you’re an analytical person it’s easy to overthink and assume that you need to know everything about a topic before you start to charge for it or even talk about it.

Your brain thinks 20 steps ahead and comes up with excuses and roadblocks which stop you from taking action or worse, forms doubts about what you know you can do or what you think you’re worth.

It sucks but you can get past this if you keep these tips in mind:

The doubt never really goes away

Even experienced Developers and Engineers get imposter syndrome sometimes. The trick is to do what you want to do anyway and trust in your ability to figure things out and take action regardless.

You don’t need to be the best at something or know it all before you get paid

Even as a paid and working Developer, you’ll still need to keep learning new updates, languages, and processes.

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This means that you’ll:

  • never stop learning
  • but also never know everything about a specific topic or language

Does that mean you can't get paid until you know it all?

Of course not! You can get paid for the level you're at now, then more when you skill up.

You will almost always feel like an imposter if you base your level of value or expertise on the amount that you know. Instead, frame it from the value you provide to the person (or company) and what you can achieve for them .

Are you saving them time or money or from having to learn to do it themselves?

This way you'll see that what you’re doing is valuable, regardless of how technical it is. A basic task for you may be something time-consuming or complicated for someone else, so don't devalue your current level.

Being able to figure things out is far more valuable than knowing everything in advance

A lot of coding is learning how to adapt and solve problems without knowing the answers. This is what FAANG level companies and others are looking for .

You don’t need to know everything because that’s impossible! Instead, focus on your ability to figure it out and your confidence will skyrocket.

Practice makes perfect good enough!

And finally, don’t forget that you’ll never get a better experience and learn faster than applying what you’re learning to a real-world environment!

Using your current skills now to solve problems or build projects is a huge boost to connecting principles, and will shorten your learning curve and increase your earnings.

The beauty of this mindset is that you’ll stop feeling anxious and start believing in your abilities, especially once the cash starts coming in!

Sounds good?

Alright then, so let’s get into it!

10 ways that you can get paid today, while still learning to code

The following methods require varying levels of skill and experience. Some of them you can use now even if you’ve just started to learn to code, while others you can use as you’re getting going and are more experienced.

And some of them?

You can use them right now even if you've never written a line of code before - just like this first one!

1️. Get your current company to pay for it

What if you could get your current boss to pay you, while you learned to code - even if you have no coding experience so far?

That’s what Duaij did.

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Dauij was a digital 2D drafter who managed to more than double his salary and got his boss to pay for him to learn to code.

Here’s how he did it :

At my current job, there was a discussion about switching our database from a really old Access database to a SQL database. I wasn't really involved in the discussion, I just happened to be in the meeting where someone mentioned it in passing. The quote my company got was $150,000 USD and I think it was a waterfall style project, where we wouldn't see a product until a year. (This is one of the reasons that I’m a fan of the agile/scrum style instead.) Anyways, the money made my ears perk up because drafting is OK but you're not about to be financially free unless you're an architect or engineer or something, and so I pitched them on me learning to code as an internal team member instead, and they agreed! That night I went home and looked up how to code, found all the recommendations for Python as a good language to start with, the power it has, yadda yadda. I ended up reading Reddit and someone mentioned the ZTM Python course so I snagged it and got started. In the beginning it was rough and I thought there was absolutely no way I could make this transition, but after getting through about 50% of the course I started messing around with my own projects.

Editor's note:

See how applying the skills in practice helps you learn and connect the dots easier?

Anyways, back to Dauij

The company I work for is small and old school. Lots of paper, excel sheets with manual entry, etc. The first thing I did was create a GUI that would input data into excel in certain cells. Then I added additional excel sheets to this project. I think by the end of that one, what used to take someone an hour a day to do was reduced to 5 minutes . Same thing with SQL, but this time I had more confidence. I was able to pull the information off the SQL server and put them on these excel sheets, taking my 5-minute project and truly automating it so that no one needed to be involved! This project was enough for them to remove me from the drafter position and make me a database administrator (of which they had none at the time). Since then, I have maintained our SQL database, created some more automations, and moved the company to use more modern and efficient technologies. The most interesting thing though was this: Not only did learning to program teach me languages, but it also taught me a different way of thinking Not every problem needed a program, but my suggestions now came from a different place in my brain and applying myself differently. Right now I'm working on a front end for the access to SQL migration with a small team of freelancers using React.js , which I’m also learning from ZTM. I would like to state that one of the freelancers they have on retainer is a Senior Developer, so I'm not some sort of genius. If I got stuck I could either Google it or pick his brain, as he was a great resource to troubleshoot with. My favorite part is that this was 7 months ago, and I now make double what I did as a drafter and have already had one poach attempt from a rival company.

Not bad right?

Duaij saw an opportunity to add value to his current employer and got them to pay for his education and for his time to learn during work hours-even though they are a small company.

(I have to imagine that this single project alone saved them thousands of dollars! A win-win for both sides.)

So what about your own job?

  • Are they currently looking to hire for coding roles?
  • Do they have an issue that you could solve for far less than what’s quoted if you learned to code?
  • Do they have an issue that you could fix and are not even aware of the time it takes or the money they could save?
  • Or could it be that simply having an internal coder who knows their business would be far more beneficial to them in the long run? (Learning to code is great, but it’s even better if you can get someone who also understands your business products and processes, so you may have more value than you think!)

2️. Or get a new company to pay for it!

If your current job isn’t hiring coders or willing to pay you to become one, then what about others?

There are a lot of companies out there that will take on beginner Software Developers who show they have potential now, and not just for internships but actual Junior Developer roles.

You can check out sites like GeektoGeek , Ziprecruiter , and more.

Heck, there are some languages in certain industries such as Web3 and blockchain that are so in demand that they’re paying high 6 figures a year, and accepting people with less than a year's experience!

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Simply go to the site and then filter by level of experience and then pitch away!

3️. Apply for basic, paid freelancing tasks

A common misconception is that freelance work is mainly larger projects, consulting, or in-depth complex topics, but it’s not necessarily true.

You can often find people looking for something relatively simple to do for you at your current level of experience, but they lack the skillset or time to spend a few hours to learn, and so will pay for your help.

Sites like Freelancer or Fiverr are full of these types of opportunities, and sometimes they can just take 15-90 minutes to complete.

Do a few of those each week and you can easily earn some decent cash.

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$2,500 per task is not bad!

If you can find a niche to focus on, you can even scale this up to 6 or 7 figures doing these odd jobs alone.

4️. Offer simple services

Once you have a little more confidence it’s incredibly easy to not just complete random tasks as a freelancer but to also offer set services instead.

Well if you have some early HTML or CSS experience then you can easily create custom email templates, or better yet, build copy and paste websites.

Here you can see one web developer on Fiverr who is focused on offering basic Wordpress site builds :

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With 1,000’s of customers, $500 per site, and an average time to make a site of a couple of hours, then he’s doing incredibly well for a side hustle.

Heck, you could do one a day and then learn to code outside of that and be very comfortable - especially if you’re earning USD but living somewhere cheaper!

A lot of people get to this point and then never go into a developer job, simply for the lifestyle and convenience.

For Example

I have a friend who creates Shopify custom sites in HTML, but almost all of them follow a similar template .

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That’s not laziness on his part but simply him being smart and focusing on a specific customer base to niche down into.

Shopify seems to appeal to e-commerce brands through its marketing and plugin builds so it’s an easy platform to focus on and get a similar customer each time.

And because around 90% of them want almost identical site designs, it means that the build time is very short, and yet they each pay anywhere from $6,000-$10,000 per website.

Not bad for a few hours of work right?

If you did decide to build websites on the site, then you can even add in further complementary services to make more cash while you learn, such as ongoing updates or installs for a set monthly fee.

(Some people will happily pay you to help them update plugins and backup files, meaning that you can charge a recurring fee for what is usually very little downtime.)

One Web Developer in Australia did this and managed to scale to a few thousand recurring customers at $79 a month, before selling the platform to Godaddy !

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As you can see, offering services can be incredibly lucrative even with a basic understanding of coding.

Want to keep learning to code and make even more money?

You can take that site building experience and learn Next.js , and then start looking at building 6 or 7-figure sites and apps for international companies!

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Thanks to its fast site speed and direct work with Google's UX team and Lighthouse for SEO optimization, Next.js can be a great option to learn and it’s in high demand with great salary ranges.

5️. Get paid to find what’s broken

Sites like Immunefi , Bugcrowd and HackerOne pay freelancers who sign up with them a set fee to either find code errors and bring them to their customers' attention or to perform ethical hacking and find potential exploits and it pays very, very well.

(I saw a mobile code issue for Expensify that was offering $32,000 USD if you could figure out the cause and provide a solution, as well as $100,000+ in other bug bounties!)

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Oh, and we teach ethical hacking here at ZTM also 😉.

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The good thing about this method is you can do it as and when you want to earn.

6️. Win cash and prizes for coding competitions

OK so even though this method isn’t a guaranteed way to earn cash while learning to code, it can still pay off.

Here's how it works :

Sites like HackerRank offer coding competitions that they organize with different software and engineering companies.

The companies give cash prizes to the person or teams who win, but this will often lead to job opportunities for people who show promise (They use the competitions as a source pool for talent while also getting cheap press).

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Now although you’re not guaranteed to win or get paid, this can lead to getting paid Programmer roles while you’re still learning so it’s worth looking into as a way of getting your foot in the door with companies who might not even be advertising roles.

7️. Get paid to tutor others

Here's another way to get some easy cash while also flexing your problem-solving skills by becoming a coding mentor!

Sites like Codementor offer a service where experienced coders can help students struggling with problems for a set fee.

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You don't need to be the most experienced in the world to apply for this. You just need to have enough experience to help solve the problem, so you can often get paid for just being a step ahead of the person you're helping!

You can practice these skills by helping fellow students as part of the ZTM Community Classroom on Discord .

8️. Fix issues you have in your own life and remove costs and sell them

So this method can not only make you money but also remove a cost that you might have.

The process is this:

  • Find an issue that you currently have and might already be paying for a solution
  • Solve it with code and save money
  • Sell it to others and make money

Simple right?

Here are 3 amazing examples of this.

💡 Example 1: Forum fiascos

Some industries are notorious for never updating their software functions, and it gets to the point where entire industries can be built around a workaround to an issue that fixes something that the current manufacturer could easily solve, but just hasn't prioritized.

No joke, this can last for years and years and be very lucrative without even being a complex solution.

Here's a personal story:

A few years back, I started using a forum plugin for my own membership platform on a WordPress site build.

The plugin costs around $300 and works well as a forum, but it wasn't perfect (and still isn't) and so there was an opportunity here for a savvy coder to solve a problem and get paid at the same time.

Annoyingly, I wasn't that person but someone else did solve it and made some pretty good cash.

So here's the issue:

The forum is mainly used as a community addon for paid membership websites but there’s no direct single sign-on integration from the forum provider or the membership platform tool.

This means that if you get a new customer, rather than the software syncing and creating a forum account from the new customer's details, you have to manually create them separately and then send the login details to the customer.

This meant added steps for me and no syncing for the 2 platforms or the audience. If the customer joins or leaves, the forum account doesn’t change.

Even worse? If they’re logged into the course, they still need to manually log into the forum each time, which as you can guess, is quite frustrating 😤.

One developer was building their own forum and noticed this, and then coded a simple integration for their own use that would sync the 2 platforms, which probably took them a few days max to create.

So how can they make money with this?

Well, the forum and membership plugin still doesn't offer a syncing solution, even though they have thousands of customers and it would be fairly easy to code.

So the developer created a one-page website and started to sell this integration code for $75 with a $50 per year recurring fee for updates.

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What's crazy is it's been 6 years now and they are still selling this code. (At my estimate they've made at least $40,000 USD for just a few days of work!)

They had a problem, solved it for themselves, and then monetized the solution for others.

Could you do something similar?

💡 Example 2: If you do it more than once, build a template

Another friend of mine used to build custom WordPress websites and noticed that most customers wanted the same structure, so he eventually built a theme template that he could use again and again.

It makes sense right? Less time and effort for each new customer site that he built.

Well, he then took that theme, made a few versions of it, and sold them all on themeforest , netting him around 6 figures a year on semi-automation.

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Basic HTML + CSS but scaled out so that he could passively while he learned to code for fun, and build websites on the side.

Just like the last example, he had a problem, he solved it, and he monetized it for others.

💡 Example 3: When a self-made tool goes crazy… 🙉

Mailchimp is a huge email CRM that was just acquired for $12 Billion dollars by Intuit .

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12 Billion dollars!

But did you know that this entire tool started as a simple solution for a problem that had?

Back in 2001, the owners of Mailchimp operated a website design business but had some other coding skills.

The story goes that one of their website clients saw the self-made tool that the design agency was using to automate their emails and wondered if they could get a copy to use also. (The tool was an updated version of a greetings message app they had built and failed to launch, and then rebuilt to send basic email automations).

It stood out immediately with their audience because, at that time, almost all email CRMs were for Enterprise companies and extremely expensive.

They started offering this simple app to their website customers before offering it as a basic email CRM 5 years later in 2001.

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(No fancy design skills needed!)

By 2017 they had scaled it to a staggering $525 million in revenue .

Not stopping there, they then continued to add roughly $120 million in revenue per year for every year after that.

Not bad for coding a solution to their own problem eh?

  • So what can you make to solve a problem in your own life?
  • What can you automate and save cash?
  • Who else would buy it from you?

You'll be surprised at how many times this happens.

Here at ZTM, we have to optimize all our images and gifs for faster load times before uploading, but the current CRM we use doesn’t have this feature. To get around this we built our own image optimization tool which I’m 100% certain we could sell to other users also.

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Simple right!

So what could you make?

You don't need to build an entire suite of tools or have a beautiful UX to make some extra cash solving problems like this. You just need to offer a solution that you can monetize on the side.

9️. Share your journey and monetize the audience

Another great way to learn is to share what it is that you’re learning as you learn it. It helps solidify ideas while also holding you accountable to get things done.

So why not share your own learning experience?

It's so easy nowadays to set up a blog or a Youtube channel, and the ROI can be quite substantial through either adverts, sponsorships, promoted posts, or affiliate links.

( We even have an ambassador program here at ZTM that you can join that will pay you a recurring amount for each new member that joins via your link.)

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It's easy to share what you learned and add a link to where you learned it and boom - recurring income!

And as a bonus? Once you get experience in creating good content for your own platform you can be paid to do the same for others.

Some sites or channels will happily pay $500-$3000+ for an article or video, so the skills you learn can be monetized in multiple ways.

🔟 Teach what you know

If you have experience and advanced skills or processes, then why not share them and get paid?

Here at Zero To Mastery, we’re always inviting industry experts to share their knowledge and become teachers - even if they’ve never taught before!

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We help them to set up and record their course to meet our standards, teach them how to create and promote it, and offer recurring monthly revenue from each course sale.

This helps you to create a new income stream without having to skill up to a more senior role or learn a new language - simply by sharing what you know so far and helping people avoid common mistakes.

You’re always going to be learning new things as a developer and that journey never really ends (even when you’re an industry veteran), but it never hurts to have new income streams either 😉

What are you waiting for? Go make money today while you're still learning to code!

So there you have it, 10 easy ways to get paid to learn to code, no matter your current level of experience.

Which will you use?

  • Will you get your boss to pay you to start to learn?
  • Will you find a new role at a new company?
  • Will you do some easy freelance work, or perhaps start to offer simple, repeatable services?

The choice is yours!

By the way, if you want to learn both technical and non-technical skills that you need to have a successful career in the tech industry, then come join us as a member of Zero To Mastery .

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How to Make Money While Learning to Code (I Made $5k My First Year!)

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Lots of people start learning to code in the hope of getting well-paid programming jobs further down the road. But what if you could actually learn how to make money coding while you’re still a beginner? Is it possible to get paid to learn to code?

In this guest post, Joe Previte tells us how to make money coding and how he was able to earn $5,000 in his first year of learning to code, despite only spending $30 on his education.

If you’re ready to learn how to make money coding from home or at in-person programming side jobs, Joe’s experience can give you some real-world tips and insights about how to get paid to learn code!

Okay — here’s Joe! Enjoy :)

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Table of Contents

  • Start Learning to Code
  • Land Your First Internship or Job
  • Stay Motivated
  • Key Takeaways

In 2017, I made the decision to leave my graduate school program and pursue a career in coding. My goal was to get paid to learn to code by seeking out freelance coding jobs for beginners along the way. While spending less than $30 on online courses and resources, I earned close to $5,000 in my first year.

I also recently landed a full-time job as a front-end engineer . I proved that it’s possible to make money coding even if you’re a beginner.

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Here’s a quick breakdown of how I was able to earn money programming in 2017, and how much my rates for part time coding jobs were. These numbers are before taxes:

💻 $3,510 – From an internship with a web design agency ($25/hour)

👨‍🏫 $1,338 – From TAing/instructing for a local meetup ($15/hour for TA’ing and $25/hour for instructing)

💰 Total: $4,848

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The purpose of sharing these numbers, which are by no means impressive, is to show you that you can code online and earn money sooner than you think.

In fact, Laurence landed her first tech side gig in just two weeks after starting to learn! She only knew basic HTML/CSS and had an unrelated degree in history, but she landed a programming side job assisting a web developer for $15/hour. You can actually make money while learning to code.

By the end of this article, you’ll know how to start learning to code, how to make money coding, and how to keep yourself motivated . Along the way, I’ll share everything that helped me to develop my skills and make money while learning to code.

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How to Start Learning to Code

Before you can start making money coding, you need to begin learning to code! The first question you’re going to ask is, “Where do I start?” I asked myself the same question, but ultimately settled on using freeCodeCamp because it’s free and well-organized, and has a strong community.

freeCodeCamp is a website where you learn to code by completing challenges and projects to get certificates. They organize their curriculum in an easy-to-grasp manner and break everything up into challenges. It feels like a game and the structure provides a clear path to the end goal of a certificate.

💸 Supplement Free Resources With Paid Products

There are so many free resources out there, but there are also resources definitely worth paying for. You’ll quickly make it back once you start to code for money!

I bought a few courses, but the only one I actually completed was The Web Developer Bootcamp by Colt Steele. If you’re looking for a great starting point, I recommend that course. It teaches you HTML , CSS , JavaScript , Bootstrap, jQuery, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB in a short period of time.

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It’s important to supplement your free coding resources with paid resources, because the free resources will only take you so far. Usually, the free pieces give you an introduction. The advantage to a paid course is that it will go into more depth. They will take you beyond the beginner level and help you advance more quickly.

💡 Not sure how to get started? Check out Codecademy’s Web Development Career Path that will take you from no-code to an in-demand junior web developer.

Other paid platforms that offer more advanced coding courses include:

  • Mammoth Interactive

Read more about the 11 best Coursera coding courses for aspiring programmers here .

🤝 Join a Coding Community (Online or In Person)

Community, community, and more community. I can’t stress this enough. Learning to code is tough and the best way to overcome challenges is with the support of others. Knowing people who are facing the same struggles (or have already worked through them) makes it 100x easier for you.

Find a few people or a group with whom you can connect. This could also give you connections to beginner programming jobs!

Chingu is one of my favorite online communities. It’s a small, focused community that developed from within the freeCodeCamp community. After taking a placement survey, you join an online cohort of people at a similar skill level.

Thanks to joining this group, I made new friendships with people who held me accountable on my journey. We built projects together and grew together. Even today, I still keep in contact with some of them.

💯 My other personal favorite is the #100DaysOfCode community on Twitter, which you can learn more about in this interview on the Learn To Code With Me Podcast . I’ll talk more about this later, but so many coders use Twitter. If you don’t have it, check it out.

Many online coding courses and bootcamps also have their own private communities you can join. Launch School , for example, is an online developer bootcamp that gives its students access to a community forum where they share studying tips, help each other with problems and talk code.

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Meetup is a great place to start for in-person groups. If you want one on Facebook, check out freeCodeCamp groups. Some are location-specific too.

According to Danny Thompson , who went from gas station fry cook to working at Google, “Through meetup communities through freeCodeCamp and many other websites, I was able to learn how to program. I was able to create an amazing network of developers and people that I could tap into in a moment’s notice. But the bigger thing is, I was able to have people that I can rely on and fall back on.”

“I owe everything in my career to meetups […] where the resources and the compounding knowledge just exists in a way that you can absorb it in your own time and pace.”

If you’re serious about getting paid to code, surround yourself with other coders. You’ll learn more, you’ll progress faster, and you’ll be happier. It might also help you earn money programming for connections you make through these groups. For instance, maybe one of your fellow group members knows of an opportunity to code online and earn money, but they’re too busy to apply or their skills don’t fit. They could pass the details on to you!

🎧 Listen to Coding Podcasts

When you can’t find time to sit down and learn at your computer, turn on a podcast. It’s a simple way to do some off-screen learning. You can also make better use of your commute time–even if it’s only 10 minutes. You’ll at least be hearing and thinking about code, even if you can’t be writing it.

Here are a few to help get you started:

  • Learn to Code With Me
  • SyntaxFM (this one’s a little bit more advanced but will help you get past the beginner phase)
  • Launch School Podcast

👩‍💻 Make Coding a Habit

Habits are hard to make and even harder to break. What if you could make coding a habit you never wanted to break? Imagine where it would take you and the discipline you’ll have to code for money in the future.

The best way to create a new habit is by doing it every day. This is why Alexander Kallaway created the #100DaysOfCode movement on Twitter.

The basic premise is to code every day for an hour, for 100 days. Sounds impossible, right? You could never find the time. I thought the same thing. So I changed the rules and only coded for 30 minutes a day. You can read more about my first #100DaysOfCode experience here .

⏳ Even if you can only do five minutes a day, do it. It will be worth it.

Once you’re ready to earn money programming, you’ll already be accustomed to sitting down every day to spend time in a code editor.

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How to Make Money Programming: 8 Tips to Find Gigs

Some of you are probably thinking, “Yeah, I can relate to everything you’re saying, but how do I actually make money coding?”

When I was asking that question, I decided to seek advice from a well-known developer. His advice completely changed my entire perspective on getting paid to code.

I asked, “How will I know when I’m ready to code for money and start applying for jobs?”

He said this:

“It’s worth applying now instead of waiting for the right moment. Because by the time you feel ready, in reality you were ready months ago.”

The point is, you can start coding online and earning money way sooner than you think. My first internship started in June 2017. I’d only been coding for six months. Although I found the right opportunity at the right time, it was the decision to start looking for part time coding jobs that helped me get there.

The worst that can happen is someone says you’re not the right candidate for their job, in which case you keep coding and try applying to other coding jobs for beginners later.

Here are eight tips to help you find your first internship or beginner programming job while you’re still learning to code.

🏢 Reach Out to Local/Family Businesses

As a beginner trying to make money coding for the first time, it’s nice to find low-pressure gigs that help your community. Ask your friends, family, or business owners in your local area if they need help building a website or revamping their current one. Or find businesses with terrible websites and offer to build them a website for cheap. For example, start by checking out your local coffee shop, hair salon or mom and pop restaurant’s website to see if there are any opportunities there. 

This can be a great way to gain experience, beef up your portfolio , make connections in your community and get paid to learn to code!

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For instance, Danny Thompson earned $1,800 for revamping a local Mexican restaurant’s website. How did he land this gig? He simply talked to the manager spur-of-the-moment one evening when he was eating there. That’s how easy it can be to find freelance programming jobs for beginners!

📱 Share Your Progress With Friends and on Social Media

Along with reaching out to local/family businesses directly, you can also share what you’re doing; it’ll benefit your job search and ability to find work. It shows your friends and family that you know how to code, and they’ll think of you when they need help or know someone who has an opportunity to earn money programming.

Four friends have reached out to me for help with websites. Two offered to pay me. Voila: more programming side jobs helping me get paid to learn to code!

This wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept my coding journey to myself. They knew because I shared my progress on Twitter and Facebook. I recommend doing the same. Even if you help someone out for free, it’ll get you exposure and a potential reference to help you find your first paid coding gig!

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For example, Sarah Greer , a homeschooling mom turned freelance developer, made her start by telling her friends about her progress. “I was telling all of my friends, hey, I’m doing this thing,” she says, “And I had one friend who said, ‘Well, I actually know this guy. He’s got this local business, and he wants a website, but he doesn’t know anything about it.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, let’s just do that. Let’s get in touch with this guy.’ And so I ended up building his website.”

She goes on to say, “I also had a fellow student in [my] class, and she had landed a job doing a landing page for a client. She contacted me and she’s like, ‘I don’t feel comfortable with this JavaScript stuff.’ Can you do that part? And I was like, absolutely, which is hilarious because I was still learning it at the time.”

For yet another example, Adda Birnir says: “[My friend] had a friend who needed a website built. She told her, ‘Oh, I know somebody who is smart and hardworking and is trying to learn this and therefore is not going to charge you a lot to do it.’ So, she put me in touch with this woman. She wanted a WordPress blog and I was like, ‘Alright, I’m going to figure this out.’ I probably charged her $500 or something. And I took my little HTML and CSS skills and started playing around with WordPress and just figured it out!”

When you decide you want to get paid to learn code, that means you don’t have to be an expert to accept a gig. It means the gig is like your homework; it just comes with a check!

💻 Join a Freelancing Site

Another way to find paid beginner programming jobs as you’re learning to code is by using freelancing sites that connect you to coding projects and clients, such as Fiverr , Upwork and Freelancer .

Start with simpler coding jobs and keep your bids low in the beginning. On Upwork, you can filter by Experience Level to find entry-level/freelance coding jobs for beginners. As you learn, you’ll be able to make money coding with more complex, higher-paid coding projects. 

In the beginning, taking on freelance jobs like building simple websites or working on existing sites or applications is best. Here’s more about how to land your first freelance client . A quick glance at entry-level web development gigs on Upwork shows that you’ll probably be able to earn $20-40 / hour with freelance programming jobs for beginners.

To stand out from other freelancers on these platforms, avoid these freelancer mistakes and learn how to write the perfect freelance proposal and you’ll be on the right track to making money while learning to code.

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Chris Misterek used Upwork to double his previous full-time salary. He says “Once I had asked everybody that I knew personally to build a website, and they either said yes, and the majority of those who said no, I had to figure out another way to find people to put projects in my pipeline and have a consistent amount of work to be able to, you know, have income from my family. And so, so that’s when I started looking into Upwork.”

So I made my profile, I went crazy, just applying to anything that I could find. And sure enough, I got nothing for the first three months. But I just kept at it, kept applying and then lo and behold, finally, somebody reached out to me and wanted to hire me for a really small project.” Within just 18 months, he had doubled his salary.

Another example: After two years, Kyle Prinsloo’s freelancing side gig matched his full-time salary.

➡️ Here’s how to make your first $1,000 through freelancing.

💬 Join Local Slack Groups

Networking is key when it comes to earning money while learning to code. Another way to network yourself into a paid gig? One of the best places to find paid programming jobs is in your local Slack groups. If you do a Google search for tech organizations in your area, the chances are good that they have a Slack group where you can potentially find opportunities to code for money.

Since I’m based out of Arizona in the US, these are the groups I found:

  • ArizonaWP – local WordPress community
  • #yesphx – local startup community

I found two jobs through Slack. One was my first internship as a web developer in the Arizona WordPress Slack group. They had a #jobs channel where I saw a posting for an internship. After messaging the person who posted it, introducing myself, and sharing my portfolio, I landed the internship and officially started to earn money programming.

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The second paid coding gig I found was a Meetup TA/Instructor position through the #yesphx Slack group. I did the same thing as before–messaged the person asking if the opportunity was available, sent my portfolio, and then was hired!

There are lots of opportunities on Slack channels out there to code online and earn money! Do some research on the tech community where you want to find a job, join them, and get chatting.

💭 Be Open to Coding Hybrid Roles to Make Money

My first full-time job in tech was in digital marketing . How did I get it if I didn’t have previous experience or a degree in the field? Simple: they hired me because I knew how to code.

When offering me the job, my boss wanted me to serve in a hybrid role of marketing and web development. I even negotiated a higher salary because of my self-taught tech skills .

When you’re looking to make money coding, be open to opportunities that aren’t only coding-related. You might find something you weren’t even looking for because of your new skills.

Consider taking on hybrid or “tech adjacent” roles that aren’t all about coding (but can help you learn to code faster in some cases) when you’re first learning to code and want to make money. Examples of this include 👇

  • Technical writing : Write content like technical guides, which can help you understand the concepts better yourself. Avg. salary: $34.14/hour
  • Tech support: Remote customer service positions are often available. Avg. salary: $17.47/hour
  • Website theme building: Can be done on a CMS like WordPress , or even custom themes from scratch. $45-100+ per hour
  • QA or software testing: Run tests to find flaws in developers’ coding. $27.87/hour
  • Data entry: Move data from one format to another. Potential earnings: $16.02/hour
  • Social media management: Manage social pages on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or a blog. You can earn an avg. of $18.37/hour

Having a foot in the door in the tech world can be powerful, even if coding isn’t your main duty in that first role! Logan Tran , for example, started out with a job in quality assurance and became a junior software engineer two years later.

✍️ Start a Blog

Establish your personal brand, build trust, and attract more clients by starting a blog . You can write about your coding journey, share industry news and write about other topics that interest you. Once you’ve built up your audience, a blog can also earn you money through monetization strategies like advertisements, sponsored ads, and affiliate marketing. You can also create a Services/Contact page to let clients know you’re open to paid coding gigs.

If you get around 1,000 page views per month, you could make around $10-$25 per month in ad revenue. That’s not a huge amount, but if you manage to build your audience and get more viewers, you could earn a whole lot more! Ryan Robinson , for instance, started a blog that earns over $327,000 annually.

You can get started with a web hosting service like Bluehost , DreamHost , WP Engine , or HostGator .

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🏆 Enter Coding Competitions

While you’ll have to have a bit more experience for this one, entering online coding competitions can actually win you cash prizes if you rank among the top participants. This is a fun, unique way to get paid to code!

CodeChef , for example, is a coding contest site that holds competitions called Cook-Off and LunchTime. If you score in the top 10 globally you could win $100. HackerEarth is another coding challenge site that offers a range of cash prizes for winning various coding challenges. Prizes are often in the thousands of dollars.

Entering these competitions is a great way to practice your skills, build up your portfolio, and potentially win cool cash prizes. You may not be able to earn a ton from this method, especially if you’re just starting out, but it can be a great way to motivate yourself to take on new challenges and earn a little extra cash along the way.

📱Create your own apps

Obviously you’ll need to be a bit further along than learning HTML/CSS to do this, but if you’re learning mobile app development, you could put together free apps with ads or paid ads. 

With a bit of luck, you might be able to make money programming mobile apps. To make a decent amount, you’ll need to really dedicate time to marketing and treat it like a business. If you’re still learning coding skills, you could even use a no-code or low-code tool to build it. Or, instead of an app, code a plugin or WordPress theme or other online tool you could list on a marketplace to start earning money. 

The apps that are in the top 200 apps on the app store earn around $82,500 every day . The top 800 apps earn around $3,500 daily. Of course, you’ll need to manage your expectations here, but there’s a lot of potential if you find the right niche and build a great app.

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How to Not Give Up While Coding and Looking for Work

Whether your intention is to change careers or figure out how to make money coding from home on the side, it can be frustrating when you don’t hit your goal as soon as you’d like. But don’t give up! Here are a few ways to keep pushing through.

🤓 Keep a Growth Mindset

This field of programming is one where you’ll always be learning. Keep a growth mindset. Remember, intelligence is not fixed. You are not born smart or dumb. You can always learn more and grow. The book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth goes into more depth about how the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but passion and persistence.

Always keep an eye out for something new to learn, and remember the words of Gandhi:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

It can also be helpful to remember that all successful developers started somewhere. Look at old blog posts or social media posts of people you admire or who are where you want to be to see where they started. 

For example, married couple Maxence Henneron & Oxana Ivanchenko built a successful app for keeping homes clean and organized . They are earning $40K in monthly recurring revenue. But it didn’t necessarily come easy. Oxana didn’t have a tech background and learned to code just before they built the app. 

If you look back at her older tweets, you’ll see how far she’s come. In 2019, for example, she tweeted “Went to my first meetup today about #reactjs. I was so scared to go, even cried, because I thought that I was not experienced enough in programming. But actually everything went well! Thanks to @MaxenceHenneron who brought me there even though I was really scared.” 

Compare that to what she achieved in 2021 :

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You can also join forums/communities like freeCodeCamp’s You Can Do This! forum, where developers share their victories and struggles.

⏰ Wake up Early to Make More Time for Coding

If you’re not progressing as fast as you’d like, see if you can make more time to study by waking up early.

When I didn’t have enough time , I started waking up at 5:30 am to get in a half hour before my day started. I don’t do this anymore, but it was a key piece in helping me progress faster.

It wasn’t fun, but it was worth it.

According to Kazumi Karbowski (@Kaziski_) on Twitter , “I recently switched from late night coding to early morning coding (I’m a mom of two lil ones at home and a part time job). I’ve been loving it so much.”

Check out The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life for even more tips about maximizing your productivity in the morning.

🖥️ Do Another #100DaysOfCode

I was close to finishing my second round of #100DaysOfCode and my friend asked, “What are you going to do once you finish?”

My answer? “Celebrate, take a week off, then start the next round.”

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The beauty of the field of programming is that there will always be a new framework, tool, or technology for you to learn in the near future. It is a forever-changing industry. There will always be more to learn, more ways to improve, and more ways to grow. Remember, you don’t have to know everything to earn money programming.

How to Make Money Coding: Key Takeaways

After reading my article, I hope you can leave knowing these three things:

  • You can learn to code on your own. I spent $30 on Udemy courses (and only actually finished one of them) and still launched my career. Anyone can learn to code–at any age, with any amount of time. All you need is motivation and a desire to challenge yourself.
  • You can figure out how to make money coding sooner than you think. You’re probably ready now. If you can solve a programming issue or build something for someone, you can learn how to earn money by coding the same things. Don’t be afraid to offer your skills up and see how you can help someone.
  • You can’t give up. Coding is tough, and finding your first paid tech gig can feel impossible. But it’s not. Stick with it and keep learning every day. The more dedicated you are, the sooner you’ll get there.

How to Make Money Coding FAQs

What type of coding makes the most money.

According to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey of 46K+ developers, the top 10 highest-paying programming languages in the United States are: Clojure, F#, Elixir, Erlang, Perl, Ruby , Scala , Rust, Go, and LISP.

Keep in mind, however, that the amount of money you can make while learning to code will also depend on other factors like the type of projects you work on, their difficulty and scale, your area’s cost of living, how many projects/clients you can take on, etc.

How do I find my first paid freelancing client?

Finding your first paid freelancing client can be challenging, especially when you don’t have referrals , a portfolio of work, or testimonials — but with a little effort, it’s definitely possible. Leverage your networks and offline relationships, let people know you’re available for freelance work, create a portfolio of your own self-built projects to show potential clients, and use freelancing platforms like Upwork to get your name and services out there.

👉 Find more tips on how to land your first freelance coding client . 

How much money can you make coding as a beginner?

As Joe Previte proves, you can make $5,000 (or more) in your first year learning to code. From paid internships to TAing/instructing to freelancing and creating websites for people and businesses in your community, it’s possible to make thousands in your first year alone (and plenty more once you’ve gained experience).

How can I overcome imposter syndrome when making money coding?

Getting paid while you’re still learning to code can make you experience imposter syndrome — like you’re not good enough to be charging for your services yet. You might feel like a fake or a phony. But these feelings are completely normal — even programmers with decades of experience may feel like this from time to time. Here are a few tips to help you overcome imposter syndrome while you make money coding as a beginner:

  • Visualize success
  • Write out your feelings in a journal
  • Focus on your accomplishments
  • Engage in positive self-talk
  • Learn from your mistakes
  • Establish a support network/community
  • Know that your time is valuable 

Don’t underestimate yourself; everyone starts somewhere and you don’t have to be a perfect programmer/web developer to make money coding! So, what next? Register for LTCWM’s free technical side gig training to learn about a proven 4-step framework for landing technical side gigs.

I hope you enjoyed reading this article and it helped you learn more about how to make money programming! Please reach out to me on Twitter @jsjoeio if you’d like to stay connected, share your story, or say hello. I love meeting others who are on a similar journey. And if there’s any way I can support you on yours, please let me know.

About the Author

Joe Previte

Joe Previte is self-taught and works as a full-time front-end developer. An avid traveler, he’s visited 11 countries and has studied four foreign languages. In the summer of 2016, he rode his bicycle down the coast from Seattle to San Diego raising money for a nonprofit. In his spare time, he does freelance work, teaches basic coding skills at a local meetup, and leads an online meditation study group.

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Introduction

With the digital age in full swing, coding has become an incredibly valuable skill. Not only does it offer endless opportunities for personal growth and creativity, but it can also be a lucrative source of income. If you’re a skilled coder looking to make money, you’re in luck. There are numerous paths you can take to monetize your coding abilities and turn them into a profitable venture.

Whether you’re an experienced programmer or just starting out, this article will provide you with some practical tips on how to make money from coding. From freelancing and creating online coding tutorials to building and selling software, there are plenty of options to explore. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the exciting world of coding and discover how you can turn your passion into profit.

Before we delve into the specifics, it’s important to note that choosing the right coding language is key to your success. Different projects and industries have different coding language requirements. Research and explore various coding languages to find the one that aligns with your goals and interests.

Choose the right coding language

When it comes to making money from coding, one of the first steps you should take is choosing the right coding language to focus on. Each coding language has its own unique strengths and areas of application, so it’s essential to select one that aligns with your interests and career goals.

Start by assessing your personal preferences and the type of projects you want to work on. Are you interested in web development, mobile app development, data analysis, or something else? This will help you narrow down your options and determine which coding language will be most beneficial for you.

If you’re interested in building websites and web applications, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are essential languages to learn. HTML provides the structure of a web page, CSS adds visual styling, and JavaScript adds functionality and interactivity.

For mobile app development, languages like Swift (for iOS) and Java (for Android) are widely used. These languages allow you to create user-friendly and feature-rich mobile applications.

If you’re interested in data analysis and machine learning, Python is an excellent choice. Python has a rich ecosystem of libraries and frameworks that make it efficient for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.

It’s also worth considering the demand for specific coding languages in the job market. Research job listings and industry trends to identify which languages are in high demand. This will increase your chances of finding lucrative coding opportunities.

Remember, choosing a coding language is not a one-time decision. Technology is constantly evolving, and new languages emerge regularly. It’s important to stay updated with the latest trends and be willing to learn new languages as needed. Continuous learning will keep you relevant and open up new income-generating opportunities.

Learn the necessary skills

Once you’ve chosen a coding language, the next step is to acquire the necessary skills to become proficient in it. Learning and honing your coding skills is crucial for building a successful career and making money from coding.

One of the best ways to learn coding is through online resources and platforms. Websites like Codecademy, Udemy, and Coursera offer a wide range of coding courses, from beginner to advanced levels. These courses provide structured learning paths, hands-on projects, and real-world examples to help you grasp the concepts effectively.

Additionally, joining coding communities and attending meetups can be beneficial. These communities provide a supportive environment where you can connect with other coders, learn from their experiences, and collaborate on projects. Interacting with like-minded individuals can accelerate your learning and provide valuable networking opportunities.

Practice is key to mastering coding skills. Engage in coding challenges, work on personal projects, and actively seek opportunities to apply your knowledge. The more you code, the more familiar you become with the syntax, logic, and problem-solving techniques.

Another valuable skill to develop is version control with platforms like Git. Version control allows multiple developers to collaborate on a project seamlessly, track changes, and revert to previous versions if needed. Employers and clients often value version control proficiency, so investing time in learning Git will give you a competitive edge.

Continuous learning is essential in the ever-evolving field of coding. Stay updated with the latest programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Attend workshops, read books, and follow influential technical blogs and websites. This will not only expand your knowledge but also make you adaptable to industry trends and changes.

Lastly, don’t underestimate the importance of soft skills. Effective communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills are highly sought after by employers and clients. Practice articulating your ideas, collaborating with others, and adapting to different work environments. These skills will not only enhance your coding abilities but also increase your marketability.

Remember, becoming a proficient coder takes time and dedication. Embrace the learning journey, be patient with yourself, and celebrate your progress along the way. With a solid foundation of skills, you’ll be well-prepared to embark on your coding money-making journey.

Start freelancing

Freelancing is an excellent way to utilize your coding skills and start making money independently. It offers the flexibility to choose your projects, set your rates, and work on your own terms. Here are some steps to get started with freelancing:

1. Build a portfolio: Create a portfolio website showcasing your coding projects, skills, and experience. Include links to live websites or GitHub repositories to demonstrate your proficiency. A compelling portfolio will help you attract potential clients and showcase your expertise.

2. Join freelancing platforms: Sign up on popular freelancing platforms like Upwork, Freelancer, or Fiverr. These platforms connect freelancers with clients looking for specific coding services. Create a compelling profile, highlight your skills, and start bidding on relevant projects.

3. Network and market yourself: Attend networking events, connect with professionals in your industry, and build relationships. Word-of-mouth and referrals can be powerful for landing freelancing gigs. Utilize social media platforms to share your work, engage with potential clients, and establish your brand as a skilled coder.

4. Start with smaller projects: As a freelancer, it’s beneficial to start with smaller projects to build your reputation and gain experience. These projects can be stepping stones to larger and more lucrative opportunities. As you complete projects successfully, collect testimonials and reviews from clients to showcase your track record.

5. Offer additional services: Expand your freelancing services by offering related services such as website maintenance, bug fixes, or consulting. Providing comprehensive solutions can attract more clients and lead to repeat business.

6. Manage your time and finances: Freelancing requires effective time management and financial planning. Set clear project deadlines, communicate expectations with clients, and prioritize tasks to ensure timely delivery. Additionally, establish a system for invoicing, tracking expenses, and managing your finances.

Remember, freelancing comes with its challenges, such as finding consistent clients and dealing with project scope changes. However, with persistence, professionalism, and excellent coding skills, freelancing can be a rewarding path to monetize your abilities and gain independence in your coding career.

Create coding tutorials online

If you enjoy teaching and have a passion for sharing your coding knowledge, creating coding tutorials online can be a lucrative way to make money while helping others learn. With the increasing demand for online learning, there are several platforms and opportunities to explore. Here’s how you can get started:

1. Choose your platform: Select a platform that aligns with your teaching style and target audience. Websites like YouTube, Udemy, and Skillshare are popular choices for hosting coding tutorials. Consider factors such as ease of use, monetization options, and the platform’s reach to decide which one suits you best.

2. Plan your content: Once you’ve chosen a platform, outline the topics you want to cover in your tutorials. Start with foundational concepts and progress to more advanced topics. Break down complex concepts into digestible chunks and structure your tutorials logically. This will help learners follow along and grasp the material easily.

3. Create engaging and high-quality videos: Invest in a good microphone and camera to ensure clear audio and video quality. Use screen recording software to capture your coding process and demonstrate concepts effectively. Consider using engaging visuals, animations, and relevant examples to enhance the learning experience.

4. Engage with your audience: Encourage your viewers to engage with you by leaving comments or asking questions. Respond to their queries and provide additional resources or explanations if needed. Building a strong connection with your audience will not only create a loyal following but also help you improve your teaching skills.

5. Explore monetization options: Most platforms offer various ways to monetize your tutorials. You can earn through ad revenue, sponsorships, or by creating premium content that learners can purchase. Focus on creating valuable and unique content to attract a larger audience and increase your earning potential.

6. Promote your tutorials: Share your tutorials on social media platforms, coding forums, and relevant communities to reach a wider audience. Collaborate with other coding influencers or join affiliate programs to expand your reach. Utilize search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to optimize your video titles, descriptions, and tags to rank higher in search results.

Remember, creating coding tutorials online is not just about sharing knowledge; it’s about delivering value to learners and building a loyal community. Continuously improve your teaching skills, stay updated with coding trends, and address the needs of your audience. With dedication and perseverance, creating coding tutorials can become a profitable endeavor while making a positive impact in the coding education space.

Build and sell your own software or application

One of the most lucrative ways to make money from coding is by building and selling your own software or application. This allows you to have complete control over the development process and fully leverage your coding skills. Here’s how you can get started:

1. Identify a market need: Research and identify a gap in the market that your software or application can address. This could be a specific problem faced by individuals, businesses, or a niche industry. By solving a problem or fulfilling a need, you increase your chances of success.

2. Plan and design your software: Create a detailed plan and outline the features and functionalities of your software. Utilize wireframing tools or design software to visually outline the user interface and user experience (UI/UX). This will help you get a clear picture of what needs to be developed.

3. Code and develop your software: Start coding your software or application, following best practices and utilizing the most suitable programming languages and frameworks for the task. Break down the development process into manageable phases and test your software thoroughly to ensure it functions as intended.

4. Refine and improve your product: Gather feedback from beta testers or early users and use their input to refine and improve your software. Continuously iterate and enhance the user experience based on user feedback and market demands. This will help you create a high-quality product that meets the needs of your target audience.

5. Create a marketing and sales strategy: Develop a marketing and sales strategy to promote and sell your software. Utilize social media platforms, create a compelling website or landing page, and implement search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to increase visibility and attract potential buyers. Consider offering free trials or demos to allow users to experience the value of your software.

6. Provide customer support: Offer excellent customer support to your users. Promptly respond to inquiries, provide technical assistance, and continuously communicate updates and improvements. Strong customer support builds trust and enhances your reputation in the market.

7. Consider licensing or subscription models: Depending on your software, you can explore different pricing models such as one-time licenses, subscriptions, or tiered pricing. Evaluate the market demand and monetization goals to determine the most suitable pricing strategy for your software.

Remember, building and selling your own software or application requires dedication, persistence, and a deep understanding of the target market. Keep up with technological advancements, listen to your users’ feedback, and continuously enhance your product to stay competitive in the ever-evolving software market.

Participate in coding competitions

Participating in coding competitions is not only a great way to test and improve your coding skills but also an opportunity to win cash prizes, gain recognition, and network with like-minded individuals in the coding community. Here’s how you can maximize your chances of success in coding competitions:

1. Find the right competitions: Explore coding platforms and websites that host coding competitions, such as Topcoder, Codeforces, or Kaggle. Research and choose competitions that align with your coding interests, whether it’s algorithmic problem-solving, data analysis, machine learning, or web development.

2. Practice, practice, practice: Regularly practice coding problems and challenges to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Solve a variety of problems, including those similar to past competition questions, to familiarize yourself with different algorithms and techniques.

3. Study past competition questions: Review past competition questions to understand the types of problems that are typically asked. Pay attention to the algorithms, data structures, and patterns used to solve those problems. This will give you insights into the expected approach during the actual competition.

4. Improve your coding speed: In coding competitions, speed is of the essence. Practice typing code quickly, familiarize yourself with keyboard shortcuts, and optimize your coding environment to minimize distractions and enhance efficiency. Time management is crucial in completing as many problems as possible within the given time frame.

5. Collaborate and learn from others: Participate in team-based competitions to collaborate with other talented coders. Working together not only helps in solving more challenging problems but also provides an opportunity to learn from others’ coding techniques and strategies.

6. Stay up to date with competition rules and scoring: Each competition may have specific rules and scoring criteria. Familiarize yourself with these rules to ensure that you adhere to them and maximize your chances of scoring well. Understanding the scoring system will help you prioritize the problems to solve.

7. Reflect and learn from each competition: After each competition, review your performance and learn from your mistakes. Analyze the solutions of top performers and compare them with your own. Identify areas where you can improve and implement those learnings in future competitions.

Remember, participating in coding competitions is not just about winning but also about personal growth and learning. It’s an opportunity to challenge yourself, expand your skillset, and gain exposure in the coding community. With practice, perseverance, and a competitive spirit, you can make a name for yourself in the world of coding competitions.

Join a coding bootcamp

If you’re looking to fast-track your coding skills and jumpstart your career in the tech industry, joining a coding bootcamp can be a smart choice. Coding bootcamps offer intensive, accelerated programs designed to teach you the necessary skills and prepare you for a coding job in a relatively short period. Here’s why you should consider joining a coding bootcamp:

1. Immersive learning experience: Coding bootcamps provide an immersive learning experience, focusing specifically on coding skills and technologies that are in high demand in the industry. These programs are designed to quickly take you from a beginner to a job-ready coder, equipping you with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed.

2. Structured curriculum: Bootcamps follow a structured curriculum curated by industry experts. The curriculum typically covers relevant programming languages, frameworks, tools, and best practices. This ensures you receive a comprehensive and up-to-date education.

3. Hands-on projects: Bootcamps emphasize hands-on learning, allowing you to apply what you’ve learned to real-world projects. This practical experience helps solidify your understanding, build your portfolio, and showcase your coding abilities to potential employers.

4. Networking opportunities: Bootcamps often provide networking opportunities and connections to industry professionals. Guest speakers, career fairs, and alumni networks can help you establish connections that can lead to internships, job offers, and mentorship opportunities.

5. Supportive learning environment: Bootcamps offer a supportive learning environment with instructors and classmates who share your passion for coding. Collaborative learning, peer support, and mentorship can accelerate your progress and provide a strong support system throughout your coding journey.

6. Job placement assistance: Many coding bootcamps offer job placement assistance or career services to help you find employment after completing the program. They may provide interview preparation, resume building, and access to their network of hiring partners, increasing your chances of securing a coding job.

7. Commitment and accountability: Joining a bootcamp requires dedication and commitment. With structured timelines and a focused learning environment, bootcamps help you stay accountable and make rapid progress in your coding skills.

It’s important to research and choose a reputable bootcamp that aligns with your goals, budget, and learning style. Read reviews, speak with alumni, and consider factors such as curriculum, instructor qualifications, job placement rates, and alumni success stories.

Keep in mind that bootcamps often have rigorous schedules and require a significant time investment. However, for those who are motivated and ready to put in the effort, joining a coding bootcamp can be a life-changing opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge needed for a successful career in coding .

Get a coding job with a tech company

If you’re looking for stability, career growth, and the opportunity to work on exciting projects, getting a coding job with a tech company can be a rewarding path. Here are some steps you can take to increase your chances of landing a coding job:

1. Polish your resume and portfolio: Craft a well-written resume that highlights your coding skills, education, and relevant experience. Include a link to your portfolio, showcasing your coding projects and accomplishments. Tailor your resume to match the requirements of the job you’re applying for.

2. Enhance your online presence: Establish a strong online presence through platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub. Showcase your coding skills, contribute to open-source projects, and share insights and knowledge within the coding community. A robust online presence can make you more visible to potential employers and increase your chances of being noticed.

3. Network in the tech industry: Attend industry events, meetups, and job fairs to network with professionals in the tech industry. Connect with developers, recruiters, and hiring managers to learn about job opportunities and get insights into the hiring process. Networking can lead to valuable connections and job referrals.

4. Prepare for technical interviews: Coding job interviews often involve technical assessments to evaluate your coding abilities and problem-solving skills. Practice coding problems, algorithms, and data structures commonly asked in interviews. Familiarize yourself with coding interview platforms like LeetCode or HackerRank and solve practice problems regularly to sharpen your skills.

5. Build a strong professional network: Utilize your network to learn about job openings and seek recommendations. Attend industry events, join coding communities, and engage with professionals in your field. Networking with the right people can provide valuable insights, job leads, and even mentorship opportunities.

6. Research companies and job requirements: Research the tech companies you’re interested in and understand their values, culture, and the technologies they work with. Tailor your applications to specific job requirements, highlighting your relevant coding skills and experiences that align with the company’s needs.

7. Continuous learning and skill development: Stay updated with the latest coding languages, frameworks, and industry trends. Continuous learning demonstrates your enthusiasm and adaptability. Pursue certifications or advanced courses to enhance your skills and make your resume stand out.

8. Ace the interview: Prepare for coding interviews by practicing common interview questions, coding exercises, and system design problems. Showcase your problem-solving abilities, communicate your thought process clearly, and be confident during the interview. Don’t forget to research the company thoroughly, prepare thoughtful questions, and demonstrate your enthusiasm for the role.

Remember, landing a coding job with a tech company requires persistence, a strong skill set, and a proactive approach. Don’t be discouraged by rejections, as they are part of the process. Keep improving your skills, building your network, and staying passionate about coding. With dedication and the right opportunities, you can secure an exciting coding job with a tech company.

In today’s digital age, coding skills have become highly valuable and offer numerous opportunities to make money. Whether you choose to freelance, create coding tutorials, build and sell your own software, participate in coding competitions, join a coding bootcamp, or land a coding job with a tech company, there are several paths you can take to monetize your coding abilities and turn your passion into profit.

Choosing the right coding language, learning the necessary skills, and continuously improving your knowledge are crucial steps in your coding journey. Embrace the learning process, practice regularly, and stay up to date with industry trends to stay competitive in the market.

Remember that building a successful coding career requires more than just technical skills. Effective communication, problem-solving abilities, teamwork, and adaptability are equally important. Cultivate these soft skills to enhance your marketability and unlock more opportunities.

Whether you prefer the freedom of freelancing, the satisfaction of teaching through coding tutorials, the excitement of building and selling your own software, the thrill of coding competitions, or the structure of a coding bootcamp or corporate job, the choice is yours. Explore different avenues, discover what aligns with your goals and interests, and keep pushing yourself to reach new heights in your coding career.

Whatever path you choose, remember that success comes through perseverance, dedication, and a genuine passion for coding. Embrace the challenges, celebrate your achievements along the way, and continue to evolve and grow in this ever-changing field. With your coding skills and the right mindset, you have the potential to thrive and make a significant impact in the world of technology.

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Top 5 Ways to Get Paid to Code

Learning how to code is a long journey. In fact, it’s one that never ends, because there’s always something else to learn. The best developers never stop learning new languages, applying different strategies, and expanding their skill sets.

Keep reading to learn more about how you can start making money with your coding skills, whether you work for an established enterprise, become a freelance coder, or start your own small business.

How to Make Money Coding

Here are the top 5 ways you can get paid to code:

  • Get a Full-Time Coding Job
  • Freelance as a Developer
  • Create WordPress Plugins
  • Teach an Online Coding Course
  • Sign Up for Coding Contests

1. Get a Full-Time Coding Job

The easiest way to make money coding is to get a job as a software developer for a company.

To get a job as a developer, you’ll need to put together a portfolio of your work and be ready to pass a rigorous interview process. But if you have what it takes, you can potentially walk into a high-paying gig with great benefits.

It’s easy to discover full-time coding jobs using job search sites like LinkedIn , or FlexJobs .

Keep in mind that if you work for a company, it could take years before you’re handed interesting projects.

Price: $9.95 w/ 30-day Money-Back Guarantee

FlexJobs is the largest site for finding remote, work-from-home jobs, both full-time and part-time for your skillset. The trained researchers at FlexJobs hand-screen job listings to eliminate ads and scams found on other sites. Find everything from entry-level to executive positions at FlexJobs.

2. Freelance as a Developer

Once you become proficient in coding, you should consider freelancing and taking on independent jobs.

Working for companies full-time can be limiting. But if you freelance, you can take on projects and command top dollar. And the best part? You can potentially make more money this way while having the freedom to work on your own schedule.

To find potential clients, check out freelance hubs like Upwork and Fiverr . These sites will take a cut of what you make as a commission, but they can also be great sources for finding gigs.

Freelancing as a developer allows you to travel around, network more, and discover exciting new projects. If this sounds exciting, give it a whirl.

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3. Create WordPress Plugins

A WordPress plugin is a piece of software that you can use to augment a WordPress website. People use plugins to add new features and functions to their pages.

It’s possible to make money just by creating custom WordPress plugins. If you’re able to create a particularly helpful WordPress plugin, you could potentially open up a business on that alone.

Also remember that you can make money teaching others how to create plugins, which brings us to our next career path.

4. Teach an Online Coding Course

Once you become proficient enough in a certain subject, you can start making money by teaching beginner coding courses.

This is something you can do on a site like Udemy or a social media channel such as YouTube .

There are a few ways you can make money teaching online courses. One option is to create a library of content and make the videos or tutorials available to paying subscribers. The other option is to work with live groups of students in real-time.

5. Sign Up for Contests

Another way to sharpen your skills and possibly make money is to participate in monthly programming challenges.

Some websites offer tournaments where coders can compete against each other and even land gigs and opportunities in addition to prizes.

For example, CodeChef is a platform that brings coders together for tournaments. The company offers cash prizes while teaching different concepts.

What is Coding?

If you’re new to the topic, here’s a quick primer on coding. In a nutshell, coding is all about feeding computers instructions. After all, computers can’t understand words and numbers like humans. Getting a computer to take a specific course of action requires giving it commands that it can process.

At a high level, the process of feeding computers information is called coding.

Breaking this down further, computers can understand various programming languages. A programming language is a set of symbols that a computer can recognize. Some examples of programming languages that coders use include:

  • Objective-C

Picking a computer language is a bit like learning a foreign language — and it helps to have a specific reason for learning your chosen language.

Most programmers don’t know all computer languages. Rather, they learn basic coding principles and then learn the languages they need to solve specific problems based on the tools they use and the tech stacks they’re operating with.

Benefits of Making Money with Coding

If you love technology and learning new tasks, coding might not feel like work . Depending on the type of work that you’re doing, coding can be fun. It can enable you to build programs and watch them come together and develop into working solutions. Plus, you can gain a much deeper understanding of how the digital services you use on a daily basis operate.

Of course, not all programming jobs might be a good match for your coding skills. For example, some programmers don’t like working in Java because it requires writing a lot of code for even the simplest tasks.

It’s important to explore the various options that are available to you so that you gravitate toward an area or language that aligns with your interests and coding skills.

Another benefit of getting paid to code is that you can work remotely .

Many millennials are using coding as a means of traveling around the world and living digital nomad lifestyles. If you’re the type who would like to live in France for three months and then jet over to the Philippines, coding can fund your adventures!

It’s also possible to make good money online coding , especially if you work independently or specialize in a niche area.

For many people, coding is their livelihood. It’s a means to a decent paycheck and a better quality of life. If you can master coding, you can open some exciting doors and enjoy a lucrative and rewarding career.

The Future of Coding

Young people who are picking careers today need to take automation into account. Automation is impacting just about every industry, and programming is no exception.

That doesn’t mean programming is going away — quite the contrary. Over the next few years, programmers will increasingly use artificial intelligence to automate low-level, time-consuming tasks. For example, services like Kite help programmers speed up production with artificial intelligence.

Still, the world will need programmers to work with code and bring software to market. The software doesn’t write itself (at least, not yet).

In all likelihood, the immediate future remains bright for programmers. While there’s no telling what the future will bring, software development is an in-demand, well-paying, and stable profession.

Types of Programmers

Here are a few of the most common programming roles to explore as you look for ways to make money coding.  I want to note that the salaries you see below are just average. Experienced coders who live in high-cost areas can earn significantly more money.

Front-End Developer

💰 Average Salary: $104,214

Front-end developers create the graphical interface of a website or application. In other words, this is what the user sees when using a digital service. It’s like web design, just for software.

Back-End developer

💰 Average Salary: $94,998

Back-end developers are responsible for creating the underlying technology that powers an application or website.

Full-Stack Developer

💰 Average Salary: $100,677

A full-stack developer is an engineer who can work with both the front and back ends.

Web Developer

💰 Average Salary: $67,5567

Web developers specialize in creating websites for businesses.

Mobile Developer

💰 Average Salary: $93,415

Mobile developers write code for applications that run on mobile devices like Android and iPhone.

Game Developer

💰 Average Salary: $115,979

Game developers write code specifically for digital games on mobile devices, computers, and consoles like PlayStation and Xbox.

How to Learn to Code

If you’re new to coding, learning it can seem like a daunting task. But the good news is there are a variety of ways that you can learn coding relatively quickly.

One of the nice things about coding is that you don’t need to have a background in computers or even technology to make money in this field. In some of the most famous examples, workers no longer need a college degree to work at Tesla, Apple, or Google.

With programming, it’s all about what you bring to the table: the quality of your coding, your willingness to learn, and your ability to hit deadlines. When you’re good at what you do, the work will follow.

With all this in mind, here are some ways you can learn how to code.

1. Chart a Course

Deciding that you want to code is like saying that you want to learn how to make music. You must refine your focus if you want to make any progress.

Before you do anything, do some research and figure out what type of coding you want to do. Once you’ve figured that out, determine the languages that you need to make it work.

As a word to the wise, make sure that you want to move forward with coding before jumping in. It’s going to require long hours in front of the computer — day in and day out.

In other words, coding can be excruciating work, so you need to make sure that you’re up for the challenge.

2. Take an Online Course

Learning the basics of coding can feel overwhelming at first. If you try to teach yourself everything, you could wind up spinning your tires.

My advice is to start with an online course that can teach you coding from the ground up — along with some useful tricks that you can use to work faster and more efficiently.

Luckily, there are a ton of sites that can help you figure out how to write code.

Top Online Coding Courses

  • Codecademy:  Codecademy is a free coding school and a great option for beginners.
  • Pluralsight:  Pluralsight offers a comprehensive learning experience with videos, lessons, and assessments. This is another great option for beginners.
  • HarvardX CS50:   HarvardX CS50 is a free program that’s available on edX as a self-paced, 12-week course.

3. Attend a Boot Camp

After you take an online codeing course and see if you like coding, the next step could be to enroll in a coding boot camp.

As the name suggests, a coding boot camp is an intensive, multi-week course that packs as much training and knowledge into a short time period as possible. You’ll sit through comprehensive training sessions, work with peers, and take tests. In the end, you’ll typically receive certification and access to employment resources.

As a disclaimer, coding boot camps are not easy — especially for working professionals. But if you can make it through, you can potentially fast-track your career and walk into an entry-level coding gig or connect with recruiters.

Best Coding Boot Camps

  • Nucamp:  Nucamp provides a 17-week boot camp for front-end developers and a 22-week boot camp for full-stack web and mobile developers.
  • Flatiron School:  Flatiron School is another leading boot camp provider that offers courses in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity engineering, and product design.
  • Code Platoon:  Coding is an increasingly popular career choice for veterans returning home from service. So, if you have experience working for Uncle Sam and want to explore a career in coding, you should look into Code Platoon , which is a special coding boot camp specifically for those in the armed forces and or their spouses.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is programming a good career.

For the most part, yes. But, it’s not for everyone. Whether or not coding is the right career path for you depends on whether you enjoy technology and problem-solving. Coding takes a lot of time and effort, and it isn’t something you can learn overnight. The best coders put years of practice into their craft and are continuously learning.

That said, if you become proficient in coding, you could make a lot of money and work remotely. At the same time, people often put a lot of time and effort into learning coding only to wind up working tedious entry-level jobs that don’t pay much.

To avoid this, spend some time planning your journey and enter into the field with a clear purpose. With a bit of planning, you could increase your earning potential and avoid falling into a career that you don’t enjoy.

Is it hard to learn how to code?

Yes, but coding isn’t rocket science. The truth is that anyone can learn how to code with enough practice and the right instructions. That said, some languages and concepts are a lot harder than others. As with any skill, coding becomes increasingly difficult as you advance. There’s a big difference between learning a language like HTML and an advanced language like Go or Ruby on Rails.

At the same time, more advanced skills command more money. The more work you put in learning new languages and expanding your portfolio, the more you can differentiate yourself and earn.

Can you make a lot of money programming?

You can make a lot of money with coding, especially if you branch off and work for yourself.  Advanced coders can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year writing code and helping their clients bring digital solutions to market. So, suffice it to say that there’s a lot of money and job security in this field.

Another way to make money is to hook on with a startup and help design software that makes the company skyrocket in value. Just make sure to be smart about how you structure your contract so that you get a fair slice of the pie if the company grows in value.

The Bottom Line

The secret is out: A lot of people are learning to code because it’s one of the best new skills you can have. And if you become good at it, your programming skills will directly boost your cash flow and lead to an exciting career.

Furthermore, there are many different ways to help build software that solves real-world problems. Just know that it will most likely take a decent amount of time and effort to get up to speed.

Ultimately, being a software developer is a journey — not a destination. There will always be new concepts to learn and master.

If you’re a detail-oriented person who loves learning and spending time at your computer, coding is the perfect skill to pick up. And who knows? Coding could very well supercharge your journey to financial freedom.

Whatever you decide, here’s to finding a trade that pays well and gives you the flexibility to do what you love.

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In today’s digital age, coding skills are highly sought after, and the demand for talented web developers continues to grow. What if you could leverage your coding skills and get paid for it? The world of online coding offers many opportunities for developers to monetize their expertise from the comfort of their homes.

As we delve into this adventure, we will explore the top options and platforms that allow you to get paid to code online. Whether you’re a seasoned programmer or just starting your coding journey, this guide will provide valuable insights into how you can earn income by coding online.

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Whether interested in web development , mobile app development, data analysis, or software engineering, a forum or gig awaits your unique skill set. In the following sections, we will delve into the top opportunities and platforms that can help you turn your coding prowess into a lucrative online career. Get ready to explore the exciting world of getting paid to code online! Get Paid to Code Online

In today’s technologically advanced world, the ability to code has become a valuable skill. There are a few ways to get paid online using your coding knowledge, such as through freelancing platforms or participating in coding contests. In this section, we will explore these options in more detail.

Freelancing

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One popular way to get paid to code online is through freelancing. As a freelance web developer , you can work on a range of projects by providing your services to clients across the globe. Some popular platforms for finding freelance coding jobs include:

Creating an appealing portfolio showcasing your skills and previous work is crucial when starting as a freelancer . This can help potential clients understand your abilities and make it easier for them to decide whether to hire you for their projects.

Coding and Web Development Contests

Participating in coding contests is another way to get paid to code online. These competitions allow coders to showcase their own skills online and win cash prizes or job offers. Some popular coding contest platforms are:

  • HackerEarth

Practicing regularly and staying up-to-date with the latest coding techniques and algorithms is crucial to excel in these contests. Doing so increases your chances of ranking higher in the contests and, in turn, winning more substantial rewards.

Online Coding Courses

If you have a knack for teaching, you can get paid to code online by creating and conducting online coding courses. Platforms such as Udemy, Teachable, or even YouTube allow you to earn money programming and share your knowledge and expertise with others. By establishing yourself as an online coding instructor, you can generate passive income while strengthening your coding skills.

Ultimately, getting paid to code online offers numerous possibilities, from freelancing money coding and participating in coding contests to teaching coding courses. By focusing on your strengths and continuously honing your skills, you can create a successful career as an online coder.

Popular Programming Languages

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Python is an interpreted, multi-purpose programming language with rapid growth in recent years. It is widely used for data science, machine learning, cybersecurity, and development operations. The popularity of Python has led to high demand and increased salaries for developers. With an average salary of $95,000 and growing job opportunities , Python is a popular choice for programmers looking to work online.

Javascript is another popular choice for programming and is often used for web development . It ranks #2 in job postings and average salary among programming languages, demonstrating the strong demand for Javascript developers. Being proficient in Javascript can open up various opportunities for online work in web development, game development, and more.

Java is an object-oriented, class-based programming language, making money one of the most in-demand languages across various industries. Java developers are sought after in many fields, such as mobile app development, web development, and back-end infrastructure. Java developers can find plenty of online work through freelance platforms or remote job postings.

C# is a universal programming language developed by Microsoft for use in the .NET framework. Popular in game development and Windows applications, C# developers can find opportunities in various industries. As the technology continues to evolve, potential online work in C# development may include augmented reality and cutting-edge technology.

PHP is a server-side scripting language that is mainly used for web development. Although other programming languages have gained popularity for web development in recent years, PHP continues to be widely used for developing websites and web applications. PHP developers specializing in online work can still find many opportunities to earn income , such as creating and maintaining plugins or website themes for content management systems like WordPress.

Objective-C

Objective-C is an object-oriented programming language predominantly used for Apple’s MacOS and iOS platforms. Although Swift has largely replaced it, Objective-C is still used in legacy projects and some applications. Developers who are proficient in Objective-C can find online work to maintain or update older macOS and iOS applications or work with teams that still utilize this language.

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Online Courses

Learning to code online is a popular choice for aspiring software developers . Numerous platforms offer online courses where one can learn a range of programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. These courses usually include video lectures, study materials, quizzes, and hands-on projects to help students gain practical coding skills. Some popular online course platforms include Coursera, Udacity, and edX. Students can find courses ranging from beginner to advanced levels, covering crucial coding topics and practical applications.

Coding Bootcamps

Coding boot camps are another option for those learning to code quickly and efficiently. These are intensive, short-term programs designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge required to enter the field of software development. Bootcamps typically last a few months and offer full-time and part-time options to accommodate different schedules. Some boot camps even provide job placement assistance upon completion, making them an attractive option for those looking for ways to make money and transition into a coding career. Examples of well-known coding boot camps include General Assembly, Le Wagon, and Ironhack.

Codecademy is an online learning platform specifically designed for learning to code. It offers an interactive, user-friendly interface with practical coding exercises and immediate feedback on coding tasks. This makes it an excellent choice for beginners, who can practice and gain confidence at their own pace.

Codecademy offers a range of free and paid courses, covering programming languages like Python, JavaScript, and Ruby, along with web development concepts such as HTML and CSS. Additionally, they offer specialized courses on data science, machine learning, and more.

To summarize, learning to code online can be done through online courses, coding boot camps, online programming tutorials, and platforms like Codecademy. These options cater to different skill levels, time commitments, and learning preferences, offering flexibility for students who want to develop their coding skills.

Developing Skills

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One of the critical skills required in the coding industry is problem-solving. Writing code often involves encountering and troubleshooting a range of issues that can arise during the development process. Focus on building your problem-solving skills as you learn to code and take on projects. You can achieve this by:

  • Understanding the core programming concepts
  • Learning different programming languages and their syntax
  • Practicing regularly by taking on new challenges, such as coding tasks and algorithm problems

Improving problem-solving abilities will make you more efficient in tackling complex coding tasks, ultimately allowing you to make money coding and perform better as a freelance coder or in a coding job.

Another crucial factor in getting paid to code online is your coding speed. Your speed will naturally increase as you gain more experience and become proficient in coding practices. This can help you meet deadlines and complete more projects, translating into higher earnings. Some helpful tips to boost your coding speed include:

  • Mastering keyboard shortcuts for your code editor and programming environment
  • Developing a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Regularly participating in coding competitions and time-bound tasks

Developing your speed will make you a more attractive candidate for coding jobs and help you complete your freelance work and projects faster, allowing you to take on even more work.

Portfolio Building

Building a solid portfolio showcasing your coding projects and skillset is crucial to get paid coding opportunities. Prospective clients and employers are more likely to hire you if they see examples of your successful work. Some tips for building a dynamic coding portfolio include:

  • Creating a personal website to showcase your coding projects
  • Participating in open-source projects to gain experience and demonstrate your problem-solving skills
  • Listing your completed projects, along with their challenges and successes
  • Highlighting your unique skills, certifications, and experience

A well-curated and professional portfolio will help you stand out among competitors and increase your chances of finding paid coding opportunities online.

Monetize Your Coding Skills

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Many developers earn significant income from sharing their experiences, knowledge, and expertise about programming on their blogs. To monetize your blog, you can use a range of strategies, such as:

  • Displaying ads (e.g., Google Adsense)
  • Affiliate marketing
  • Sponsored content
  • Offering premium posts or programming tutorials for a fee

For success, consistently provide informative and practical content covering a range of topics such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more. Build an engaged audience and establish yourself as an authoritative source in the programming community.

YouTube Channel

Besides blogging, creating a YouTube channel is another effective way to monetize your coding skills. You can post instructional videos, tutorials, and discussions about programming languages, frameworks, and libraries on your channel. Monetization options include:

  • Displaying ads (e.g., YouTube Partner Program)
  • Sponsored video content
  • Offering premium tutorial series for a fee

Remember to optimize your videos for search, use attractive thumbnails, and engage with your audience to increase views and subscribers.

WordPress Plugins

If you have experience with WordPress development, creating custom plugins can be a lucrative business. Many developers monetize their skills by:

  • Developing niche-specific plugins and selling them on marketplaces (e.g., CodeCanyon,  WordPress.org )
  • Offering customization services for existing plugins
  • Providing support and maintenance for your plugins
  • Offering extended features or updates through paid subscriptions

For success, ensure your plugins are well-coded, easy to use, and meet the needs of your target audience. Maintain clear documentation and provide reliable customer support. This will help you build a positive reputation and increase sales.

Job Opportunities

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When looking for opportunities to get paid to code online, there are a range of options for you to explore. This section examines job opportunities in Salesforce, software development jobs, and freelance websites .

Salesforce is a popular platform for customer relationship management (CRM). As a Salesforce developer, you can work on creating custom applications, building integrations, and developing reports and dashboards. Employers often look for developers with a strong understanding of Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning components.

Some websites where you can find Salesforce job opportunities include:

  • Salesforce.com  Careers

Software Development Jobs

Software development jobs are diverse, encompassing a range of roles such as front-end developer, front-end, back-end, full-stack, and mobile app development. Popular programming languages for these jobs include JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#. Job opportunities range from entry-level positions to senior roles and can be found through numerous online platforms.

Some websites to find software development jobs include:

  • Stack Overflow Jobs
  • GitHub Jobs

Freelance Websites

Freelancing is another way to get paid coding online by working on client project-based tasks. Many platforms connect freelancers with clients in need of coding services. You can find hourly arrangements and project-based opportunities depending on the platform.

Popular freelance websites for coding money programming jobs include:

  • PeoplePerHour

Ultimately, you can get paid to code online by exploring job opportunities in Salesforce, software development, mobile apps, and freelance websites. Please keep improving your skills and maintain a strong online presence to increase your chances of landing your desired coding job .

Online Coding Platforms

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Online coding platforms offer a range of opportunities for coders to improve their skills, showcase their talents, and earn money . We will discuss three popular online platforms: CodeChef, Udemy, and the freelance network.

CodeChef  is an online platform that hosts regular coding competitions, allowing programmers to develop and showcase their skills. Participants can also earn cash prizes and other rewards for winning a range of challenges. CodeChef provides a learning environment featuring resources such as:

  • Problem archives for practice
  • Algorithm tutorials
  • Discussion forums for collaboration

Udemy  is an online learning platform where individuals can create and sell courses on a range of topics, including coding and programming languages. To get paid on Udemy , instructors must design and publish engaging lessons. Benefits of Udemy include:

  • An extensive user base, providing global exposure
  • Instructor support and resources
  • Set your course pricing

Freelance Network

A few freelance platforms, like PeoplePerHour, Codementor, and Freelancer PeoplePerHour ,  Codementor , and  Freelancer , connect clients with freelance coders and developers. These platforms enable coders to:

  • Bid on projects matching their skills
  • Set their prices and working hours.
  • Access a large pool of potential clients.

To succeed on freelance networks, creating a compelling portfolio showcasing your expertise, specialization, and past projects is crucial.

By participating in online coding platforms such as CodeChef, Udemy, and freelance networks, programmers can grow their tech skills further, demonstrate their abilities, and get paid for their work.

Paid Coding Contests to Make Money Coding

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Paid coding contests are an excellent way to test your programming skills and earn money online . These contests often provide cash prizes, and sometimes other rewards, to the top participants. Such online competitions can be found on platforms like CodeChef or HackerRank, which offer contests like Cook-Off or timed challenges. When participating in these contests, it’s crucial to remember that practice makes perfect – the more you experience, the better your chances of success!

Some popular coding contests include:

  • CodeChef: Monthly coding competitions with cash rewards for top participants
  • HackerRank: Timed coding challenges for developers of all skill levels
  • Topcoder: Global programming competitions with prestigious prizes and client projects

Another way to prepare for coding contests and improve your skills is through online tutorials. Various online resources offer comprehensive guides for programming languages, frameworks, and problem-solving techniques. By leveraging these resources, you can enhance your coding skills and prepare yourself better for competitive coding contests.

Some popular tutorial resources include:

  • Codecademy: Interactive learning platform with courses for web development, data science, and more
  • LeetCode: Collection of coding challenges and technical interview questions to improve problem-solving skills
  • Codewars: Gamified coding platform to hone your skills through coding challenges (kata)

Along with these resources are many community-driven platforms, such as GitHub or Stack Overflow, where you can find open-source projects to contribute to or ask for help from fellow developers. You can use these platforms to expand your knowledge base and stay updated with industry trends.

By participating in paid coding contests and utilizing online tutorials to improve your skills, you can earn good money, boost your programming repertoire, and make yourself more marketable in the industry.

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In this article, I will show you 20 ways to make money. You can earn a decent income while learning to code.

I will explain each of the ways and guide you on how you can start earning from that source. Everything depends on you how much effort you put into it. But your dream of earning with your favorite programming language is going to true today.

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1. Become a Programming Tutor

Do you know many new beginners around the world who need your help in the programming language you know? You can earn 15$ to 50$ per hour by helping the student programmers to learn a programming language. Below are some websites where you can start tutoring programming students.

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2. Make and sell Web Plugins

If you had some web developing skills, especially in JavaScript, then you can earn a decent amount of money by making plugins and sell them in different marketplaces.

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You can make your own price for the plugins. Other developers and people need some plugins to solve their daily life problems or make their work easy. Below I mention top marketplaces where you can sell your plugins.

  • TemplateMonster Marketplace
  • WordPress Marketplace
  • Mojo Marketplace
  • Creative Marketplace

3. Online Courses selling

You can teach your favorite programming language to other students who are struggling to learn a programming language. There are many students around the world who are looking for some online courses to learn something new. You can earn up to $1000 a month or more by selling courses. Below I mention top websites where you can start an online course teaching career:

  • Skillshare.com
  • Simplivlearning

4. Coding Competitions

There are many websites that do free coding competition and let you earn a good amount of money through it.

If you are a master in any programming language then you should start participating in code competition and try your skills on it. Below are the top websites for coding competitions:

5. Freelancing

Freelancing is the top-earning source of every programmer right now. You can develop a program, app, or game for someone and they will pay hourly. Most top programmers are paid 30$ hourly. You can start your freelancing career right now:

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6. Develop Mobile Apps

You can develop mobile applications and upload them on a different marketplace like the play store, apple store and etc. By integrating ads on your mobile app you can earn a good amount of money. Topmost popular ad company which you can use is Admob from google.

Develop a useful mobile application for android or iPhone and upload it on any marketplace once you get some users you will get money when every user sees ads on your App.

7. Blogging

Blogging is another way of earning by sharing your skills with others while making money by showing them ads. In that way, you need Adsense to monetize your blog. You can earn $1000 or up to $10,000, which depends on the audience of your blog.

8. Develop a Game

Gaming is a billion-dollar business these days, due to the new smartphone technologies and mobile games. You can develop a 2d or 3d game using a game engine and place ads on it using Admob or Unity Ads.

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  • Apple Store

9. Earn with Quora

Quora is the top Question/Answer website where you can ask questions and top experts answer them. Do you know you can make money by asking questions and answering other people's questions? Awesome!

You can start your publication ( Spaces ) in Quora. Quora gives your the opportunity to start your publication ( Spaces ) and another developer will join your space and answer the other questions or publish articles on your space. Guess what? you can now earn with the space partner program which is recently launched.

10 .Write Articles

As a programmer, you can write some tech articles or programming articles and earn a lot of money with it. You just need a creative mind and then start typing and share your knowledge with the world. Below I mention my most favorite websites for article writing which pay you.

  • vocal.media
  • Copyhackers
  • Wow Women on Writing
  • Developer Tutorials

11. Design Websites Theme

If you are a web developer, then you are familiar with front end development. Do you know you can design websites theme and sell them for a good amount of money? There are many people around the world who need your themes for their websites. Below I mention some top websites for selling your website themes.

  • Theme Forest.
  • Templamatic
  • BuyStockDesign
  • Creative Market
  • Design Cuts
  • ThemePlanet

12. Sell Your E-BOOK

By the title, you understand you can write your own e-book on any programming topic and sell them online. Many programming authors are earning a full-time income by writing E-book.

  • Amazon Kindle
  • Kobo Writing Life

13. Programing Channel

Youtube allows many creators to make their career on their platform. You can make programming videos and start your tech channel, and using Google Adsense, you can monetize your every video. Many Youtubers are earning a full-time income.

To start your channel you can check out some videos on youtube on how to start a youtube channel you can learn about the youtube policies for monetization.

14. Open Source Coding

You can start developing an open-source program or software and make it available free for everyone, and you can ask for support from your software users, and in exchange for their support, you can keep updating the software for them. Many programmers use funding and donation sites to collect payments from users and keep updating the code.

One of the examples I had is phaser.js which is a game developing in javascript framework and people who use that framework support the developer on Patreon. Below I mention some websites where you can collect donations and support.

  • Buy Me a Coffee

15. Build a Web App

These days mobile and websites take the place of desktop applications and everything is done in the browser. So why not create a useful web app and sell their subscription to your users. You can charge your users monthly or yearly.

16. Bug Bounty Hunter

Bug Bounty Hunters look for errors in the code of big websites and software and report to the developers of the respective software or websites and the owner of that software or websites pays them. Bug bounty hunters can earn up to $3,650 for just one error. Below I mention some websites for getting started on your bug bounty hunter career.

17. Podcast

Start your Programming Podcast and monetize your audience. Do you know the sponsor's company look for podcasters who have an audience, and you can earn passive income by podcasting your programming skills. Below I mention the websites where you can start your podcasting and even monetize them.

18. Sell the Ownwership of a Completed App or Game

You can create an app or game, upload it to any marketplace, and you can sell that app or game at a good price to anyone. That’s right, many programmers who create apps and games just directly sell them to others. Flippa is a top website for selling mobile apps, games, websites and etc.

19. Sell SasS

You can develop software that will solve your user's problems. That means the user will buy your subscription in order to use the software.

For selling software with a subscription, you can start it by creating your websites.

20. Solve Programming Questions

Many students are struggling with programming questions. If you are a master of any programming language, then you can help that student in their studies in exchange for a decent amount of money. Below I mention some top websites where you can answer programming questions.

If you have programming skills, then don’t waste your time by just sitting and waiting for your job letter. Why not start earning right now with the ways I mention. Feel free to leave your response. Till then Happy Earning!

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Starting the journey of programming and competitive coding , every coder wants to test himself/herself in the waters. To do so, he/she has to participate in various competitive coding challenges and competitions. But the challenge that every coder faces in the beginning of the journey is which website to go for such coding challenges and competitions, which is the best website for coding competitions, what is the benefit of attending a competitive coding competition, and many more.

Top Websites for Coding Challenges and Competitions

In this article, we have addressed the questions that you face in such situations and curated a list of top 15 websites for coding challenges and competitions. If you are about to begin your coding journey, we recommend you to refer to this article for a complete reference of the opportunities you can take advantage of using the mentioned websites for coding challenges and competitions.

Here are the top 15 coding websites/contests for competitive programming:

1. GeeksForGeeks

GeeksForGeeks organizes a bunch of programming contests every month through the practice portal which includes a number of job-a-thons for freshers to get hiring opportunities in a significant number of companies. Besides, there are many other monthly, weekly and daily basis challenges hosted regularly on the websites such as:

  • Monthly Job-a-thon : It is a contest for individual participants. Participants get the opportunity to get hired by a bunch of companies that shortlist for interviews as per their own criteria.
  • Bi-Wizard Coding : A coding competition exclusively for students. The top 100 students get chances of winning exciting rewards and also access to free courses.
  • Aim GATE : A monthly challenge that is a great opportunity for GATE aspirants to judge their preparations.
  • Interview Series : A weekly challenge that gives a great opportunity for aspirants to practice a lot of questions based on important data structure and algorithms concepts for the preparation of interviews.
  • Problem of the Day : A new problem every day to strengthen the base of data structure and algorithm.

The key features about the contests are as follows:

  • Chances of winning exciting rewards, GeeksForGeeks merchandise .
  • Access to free courses .
  • Chances of getting letter of recommendation from the CEO .

2.  The ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Competitions

The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Teams of three, representing their university, work to solve the most real-world problems, fostering collaboration, creativity, innovation, and the ability to perform under pressure. Through training and competition, teams challenge each other to raise the bar on the possibility. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. Some interesting stats about ACM-ICPC are:

  • It is spread across 80 countries
  • The registration for the contest in India starts generally in August .
  • The regionals in India are held generally in December
  • The winner of the world finals gets an award of $15000 , each continental champion also receives awards. There are also prizes for being the first solver of a problem

Refer to our complete guide on How to prepare for ACM – ICPC to begin your ACM-ICPC journey.

3. Google Kick Start

Google Kick Start is a global online coding competition, consisting of three-hour rounds of a variety of algorithmic challenges designed by Google engineers. Participants can compete in one or all online rounds held throughout the year, and will have the opportunity to develop and grow their programming abilities while getting a glimpse into the technical skills needed for a career at Google. Some important facts about Google Kick Start are:

  • It consists of 8 online coding rounds.
  • The winner gets cash prizes .
  • Top participants may be invited to interview at Google .

Refer to our complete guide on How to prepare for Google Kick Start to begin your Google Kick Start journey.

4. Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam is Google’s prestigious coding competition, a global battleground that urges all programmers to showcase their coding skills. A thrilling opportunity for all code-lovers, Google Coding Jam is a one-of-a-kind platform where programmers are pitted against each other and against time by putting their coding skills to the test. The champion gets the coveted Google Code Jam winning title and cash prize of $15,000 !

The Google Coding Jam comprises several rounds and a Code Jam World final. Each round brings with it challenging algorithmic problems; contestants have to pass each of these preliminary rounds, and finally, a total of 25 coding wizards reach the end game to fight for the cherished champion’s title.

You can also see and try previous year’s problems from our Google Code Jam archive page.

5. Google Hash Code

Hash Code is a team programming competition, organized by Google, for students and professionals around the world. You pick your team and programming language and we pick an engineering problem for you to solve. This year’s contest kicks off with a Qualification Round, where your team can compete virtually from wherever you’d like, alongside your virtual Hub. Top teams will then be invited to compete in our virtual World Finals. Some facts about Google Hash Code are:

  • Registration generally starts in February .
  • Winners get cash prize of $4000 .

You can also see and try previous year’s problems from their Google Hash Code archive page.

6. The ICFP Programming Competitions

The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) has been held annually since 1998. It is a challenging three-day open programming competition for which there is no entry fee. The enthusiast can participate from any location without any size limit for team formation. The team will be given 72 hours to complete and submit their entry through the internet. The aim of this competition is to showcase the programming languages and tools that the participants admire the most. This is one of the top programming competitions to apply for.  The ICFP for 2022 will be from 11th to 16th September .

7. Facebook Hacker Cup

Hacker Cup is Facebook’s annual open programming competition which is open across the world for participants. This is one of the top programming competitions to apply for. These coding competitions focus on problem-solving and algorithmic coding skills to advance through every year’s online rounds, and after making it to the global finals they will be earning the grand prize. Some facts about Facebook Hacker Cup:

  • It consists of 4 online rounds which include Qualification round, round 1, round 2, round 3 and one onsite final round .
  • All of the 25 finalists get cash prizes .

Refer to our complete guide on How to prepare for Facebook Hacker Cup to begin your Facebook Hacker Cup journey.

8. Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft Imagine Cup is held annually. The program invites participants to take on real-world problems that are submitted by NGOs, IGOs , and nonprofit organizations that can then take on as part of the Imagine Cup project. The main idea behind conducting such coding competitions and programming competitions is to code with a purpose that can help create new solutions. Some important facts about Microsoft Imagine Cup:

  • You must be at least 16 years old and actively registered as a student .
  • Students participate in a team of maximum 4 persons .
  • There are cash prizes and other benefits like training and mentorship from experts for global finalists.
  • There are also three regional finals.

9. Codeforces Coding Competitions

Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming competitions. It is one of the most popular websites for its exciting features. This is one of the top programming competitions to apply for. The polygon feature for creating and testing problems and social networking through internal public blogs. The participants are divided into ranks based on their ratings.

The best thing about Codeforces is that the contests are regularly conducted here as every month they organize nearly 6 contests. Also, participation in the contests is free and open to everybody.

 Codeforces offers various types of coding challenges and features such as:

  • Short format Contests with a duration of 2 hours .
  • Educational Contests of 2-2.5 hours duration are conducted 2-4 times in a month.
  • You can challenge or hack other contestants’ solutions as well.
  • You can also solve problems from previous contests for learning objectives.

Refer to our complete guide on Best Tips to Get Started with Codeforces to begin your Codeforces journey.

10. Codechef Coding Competitions

CodeChef organizes programming competitions at the start of every month and conducts two smaller programming contests at the middle and end of the month. It also offers various algorithm tutorials and forum discussions to help your journey in computer programming more easily.

There are four types of contest Codechef host:

  • The Starters
  • The Long Challenge
  • The Cook-Off
  • The LunchTime

Refer to our complete guide on How to become a 4 star coder on Codechef in only 3 contests to help you kickstart your Codechef journey.

11. Topcoder Coding Competitions

Topcoder is a crowdsourcing company with a global community of developers, designers, data scientists, and competitive programmers . These coding competitions are conducted twice a year and are held both online and offline. The participants take challenges from across the world from all the leading brands such as Google, IBM, and eBay . They also conduct individual matches online every week that can help participants gain experience and do well in the competition.

12. Atcoder Coding Competitions

AtCoder is a programming contest website based in Japan. From this weekend, we will provide problem statements in both English and Japanese and AtCoder will be an international programming competition! There are three types of official contests in AtCoder:

  • AtCoder Grand Contest (AGC) . This is our best contest. The problems will have high originality and require interesting observations.
  • AtCoder Regular Contest (ARC) . The problems may be a bit typical compared to AGC problems, but still, we think most of you can enjoy them and they are good for practice.
  • AtCoder Beginner Contest (ABC ). This is mainly targeted at those who are new to competitive programming. The problems will be easy and educational.

13. HackerEarth

HackerEarth is an Indian software company headquartered in San Francisco, US, that provides enterprise software that helps organizations with their technical hiring needs. HackerEarth is used by organizations for technical skill assessment and remote video interviewing. All challenges organized by HackerEarth are listed on the Challenges Page. These challenges can be divided into the following categories. Monthly Programming Contests: Currently they have 3 monthly contests based on difficulty level. 1st of every month from 21:30 IST (16:00 UTC) to Midnight for a duration of 2 hours & 30 minutes. The website offers thoughtful challenges mostly good for experienced programmers. They host monthly coding challenges and hackathons. Their challenge Code Monk is quite popular among programmers. ThoughtWorks , Amazon , Accenture , Walmart Labs , IBM , and Intuit are some leading companies of HackerEarth.

14. HackerRank

HackerRank is a competitive coding platform where it allows you to practice various coding problems and participate in many challenges. It provides various hackathons, and coding challenges and some companies conduct their hiring test here. The platform also gives you badges by solving challenges on the HackerRank website, and these badges will be added to your profile. This is one of the top programming competitions to apply for.

15. Leetcode

Leetcode is one of the largest tech communities with more than millions of active users. It offers various weekly and biweekly programming competitions for the participants. This also helps in job interview preparation; discussions are also provided on LeetCode. It hosts contests for 90 minutes where you can solve the challenges in their online editor, aka, playground in any one of the supported programming languages.

Conclusion:

Though the above mentioned coding websites are very common, there are other websites as well that are widely used by other users worldwide for coding practice and challenges, such as:

  • Khan Academy
  • and many others.

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What’s the best way to make money coding? How soon can you earn income with your programming skills?

How can a programmer make extra money? How much can you earn coding from home?

If you’re interested in learning coding to start a new career, congratulations!

Learning how to code is one of the most profitable skills you can teach yourself.

If you enjoy coding and are not making money online, you are missing out big.

The job market is booming and there’s a high demand for skilled developers worldwide.

Even if you are new to tech and know HTML and CSS, you can monetize your skills.

If you learn popular programming languages like JavaScript, Python, Java, or PHP, you can offer your skills online and start earning money coding.

The best part?

You can find work opportunities everywhere. Online and offline, in your area and globally, too.

And thanks to the growing demand, the average salaries for web developers and most tech jobs are very lucrative.

To help you get started, I’ll show you the best ways to make money coding in this article.

I’ll walk you through the fundamentals of earning money with tech skills, passive income ideas for programmers, and smart tips to get paid to code.

Whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate developer, you will find helpful tips to earn money by coding and boost your income with your tech skills this year.

Let’s dive right in!

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Introduction: Making money coding from home

Before we discuss the different money-making methods, let’s look at a couple fundamental questions:

What is the best way to make money coding?

First, whichever method you decide to focus on, always pick something you genuinely love doing .

It’s much easier to stay motivated when you’re enjoying what you do.

Unlike most jobs out there, these opportunities give you the absolute freedom to decide what to do and when to do it.

Second, everything you do online is scalable .

Whether you offer tutorials, write blog posts, create online courses, or sell plugins or software, your income compounds with time.

As more people find your content online, your chances of making a sale increase.

Third, remember that none of these methods is a get-rich-quick scheme .

They all require a lot of hard work until you can pay your bills with coding.

With that said, always think long-term .

Plan out your work well in advance.

Set yourself clear milestones for along the way. This will help you maintain your focus because you will know exactly what to do next to achieve your goals.

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Is it easy to start making money as a developer?

Since there are so many different tools you can learn, there is no straightforward answer to this question.

It all depends on what you wish to learn and achieve by learning tech skills.

You can learn some tools in a matter of days and start making money right away.

But with most programming languages, you need more time to become proficient enough to start making money as a programmer.

For instance, if you’re interested in learning front-end web development, you could start with your first mini jobs in just a couple of weeks. Or even sooner.

On the other hand, if you choose to specialize in data analysis and machine learning, you will need more time to gain enough confidence to start working and earning your first bucks.

But all in all, the best part of coding and web development is that it’s a skill you can learn by yourself and set your own pace with it.

You don’t need a college degree or years of experience.

Start by learning the basics of one programming language.

After that, it’s time to start practising on small, real-world projects of your own.

Make money coding: Table of contents

Here are 12 money making methods to monetize your coding skills:

  • Method 1: Freelancing
  • Method 2: Full-time job
  • Method 3: Tech entrepreneurship
  • Method 4: Mobile applications
  • Method 5: Blogging
  • Method 6: WordPress themes and plugins
  • Method 7: Scripts and software
  • Method 8: YouTube channel
  • Method 9: Coding course
  • Method 10: Programming tutorials
  • Method 11: E-books
  • Method 12: Work for local businesses
  • What’s the best way for you to make money coding?
  • Where should you start to make money coding?

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1: Freelancing

I’m a huge fan of freelance work, both online and offline.

You can decide which projects to take on, how much you work, and where to work.

You can earn money freelancing while learning to code or even working a full-time job.

Even with just relatively little coding experience, you can start looking for small jobs to practice your skills, create new contacts, and earn a little cash on the side.

As your skills improve and your confidence grows, you can take on more demanding jobs.

You decide how many gigs you accept. If you want to become a full-time tech freelancer, nothing’s stopping you from doing that.

In fact, that is what I did back in 2017.

I never studied web development or worked in tech.

But when I started learning to code in 2016, I knew I wanted to help others with my knowledge.

With a lot of hard work, I became a full-time freelance web developer .

It gave me the freedom to work whenever, wherever. It’s definitely been one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life and one of the best money making methods for techies.

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How much money can I make freelancing online?

The average freelance web developer salary is $83,156 annually in the US.

Here are a few hourly rate examples for freelance web developers:

  • Basic one-page web development: $15–40+ per hour
  • CSM code customization (WordPress): $30–75+ per hour
  • Full custom website coding: $75–150+ per hour

However, that’s not where you will start.

Your hourly rate will be very low in the beginning.

This is because you are still learning.

In other words: you are getting paid to learn and practice new skills.

Hence, I recommend seeing your first freelance gigs as paid practice. You’re not an experienced freelancer yet, so you can’t charge a full rate yet.

Any experience you get now is incredibly valuable for your future.

Every little job you get helps you build a solid portfolio. That is your key to getting bigger, better-paid jobs in the future.

If you put in the “cheap” hours now, you can charge much more for your work in the future.

As your skills improve, you will not only know more about the technical part of freelancing. You will also gain valuable experience for communicating with clients and managing your projects.

For more details, head over to my article on how I made my first $1,000 freelancing online .

In the long run, there really is no limit to how much money you can make freelancing.

It all depends on how much you’re willing to work. When your freelancing business takes off, you need to start turning down projects.

Your income will also fluctuate a lot.

For instance, if you build websites, you’ll probably see a summer slump, when people aren’t in the office.

Come September and you’ll see an upward trend again.

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How can I start freelancing as a programmer?

First, decide what you want to build for your clients.

If you love working with HTML and CSS , you should apply for front-end web developer gigs.

If you’re good at Python, you can find tons of interesting jobs in back-end development, data analysis, or even machine learning.

The very first thing you should do is to go online.

Start by updating (or creating!) your LinkedIn profile. Do that right now.

Second, look for work among the people around you: friends, family, relatives, colleagues, people you see daily at the coffee shop, supermarket, or hair salon.

Do any of them need help with creating or updating their website?

If it’s difficult to find work locally, don’t hesitate to explore freelance job opportunities online.

What skills do I need to start freelancing?

Which programming languages and technologies should you learn to become a freelance developer?

You need to know what you want to build before you can choose the right programming language to learn.

You must know what types of projects you want to work on.

Otherwise, you may end up spending weeks and months learning a language you can’t use for the type of work you enjoy.

Here are five in-demand tech freelance skillsets to make money coding:

  • WordPress web development: WordPress powers over 40% of all websites worldwide. The demand for freelance WordPress specialists is extremely high. To build WordPress websites for clients, learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
  • Front-end web development: Front-end developers are responsible for the “visible” part of a web project, i.e. the front-end or client-side . To become a freelance front-end developer, learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Back-end web development: Back-end developers are responsible for the server-side programming. They develop the “logic” for storing and processing data. To become a freelance back-end developer, learn PHP, Python, Ruby, or Java.
  • Mobile app development: For iOS mobile app development, learn Swift and Objective-C. For Android development, learn Java.
  • Data analysis and data science: Data analysis, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all based on analyzing big data. To become a freelance data specialist, learn Python.

How to start freelancing as a beginner programmer online?

There are a number of websites where you can sign up as a freelancer.

Online freelancing platforms allow you to reach a bigger audience than your local social circle.

I landed my first small coding jobs through the Upwork freelancing platform.

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Back then, I was entirely new to freelancing and wanted to validate my skills and build up my confidence.

When I started learning to code, I didn’t even think about making money with it. At least not anytime soon.

I thought I needed a college degree and years of experience to be taken seriously.

Also, it seemed like a very distant thought to get paid for doing something I really loved and enjoyed . I mean, I was learning coding simply because it was so much fun.

But one day, a work colleague told me to go online and see what I could find. I came across Upwork, read some positive reviews, and signed up.

First, I did some basic HTML and CSS jobs for $10–30.

But after a while, I started charging ten times as much. It was pretty good considering I was only doing it occasionally.

When I got my first $3,000 job just 3 months in, I couldn’t believe what was happening. Not too bad for a beginner!

How to find freelance tech jobs online? 6 smart tips

Here are 6 freelancing tips on how to make money online as a developer:

Tip 1: Choose one platform and stick with it

Getting freelance work online is strongly based on reviews.

Having positive reviews from past clients increases your chances of landing a job. It’s the best social proof that makes your profile seem legit.

When you do a good job for a client, they can write a short review that is visible on your profile page.

When new clients see positive reviews on your page, they are more likely to hire you.

Hence, you want to gather as many reviews on your profile as possible.

To do this, focus on a single freelancing platform.

Check out these popular freelancing platforms to get started:

  • Freelancer.com
  • Peopleperhour.com

Each of them has a slightly different setup. Go through their payment terms and see what people are saying about them.

Don’t spend too much time choosing one.

If you’re not sure, just go with Upwork. I had a very positive experience with them and there are tons of beginner-level coding gigs available.

Tip 2: Create your profile

When you are new to freelancing and coding, I know you can’t boast with years of experience and high-profile portfolio projects.

But don’t worry. That doesn’t mean you should leave your profile empty.

Here are a few tips to create an Upwork profile that gets you hired :

  • Upload your photo
  • Add a video introduction
  • Add your language skills
  • Add your education details
  • Write a value-driven profile title
  • Add a profile bio text
  • Showcase work samples in your portfolio
  • List your tech skills
  • Choose your experience level
  • Add your employment history
  • List any certifications

Add relevant skills to your Upwork profile

Tip 3: Find the right jobs

Once your profile is set up, start browsing through beginner-level job openings:

  • What skills do they list as requirements?
  • Can you find any matches with yours?

If you feel like you’re not ready to apply for small jobs yet, simply improve your skills in relevant areas based on your research.

Once you feel confident enough, it’s time to start applying for your first jobs!

Tip 4: Keep your bids low in the beginning

Your first freelance jobs are primarily for learning.

Explain why you are willing to work for a low price, e.g. tell your clients you’re just starting out and are more interested in doing a great job in exchange for a positive review.

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Tip 5: Don’t take on big projects

Start very small, don’t be too ambitious .

It’s better to go for the easiest jobs first to gain confidence in your skills.

You don’t want to have to tell your client that you can’t finish the job. That’s going to leave a bad taste in your mouth, too. It’s definitely not good for your confidence.

Right now, you simply want the easiest job possible.

Remember: you want that first positive review for your profile page.

Tip 6: Be honest and direct

Only list your real skills on your profile , even if it’s just basic HTML and CSS at this point.

If you get a job offer for a project that’s too demanding, learn how to say “no” right from the beginning.

Be confident in your skills from day 1. Don’t underestimate yourself.

Also, clarify the job requirements with your client up front. Make sure you both understand the expectations, milestones, and deadlines.

If you run into a problem or a disagreement with your client, you can turn to the platform to clarify any issues. A detailed list of requirements in the chat history will help solve the problem very easily.

What is the fastest way to start freelancing?

The quickest way to start freelancing online is to learn HTML and CSS .

Both languages are easy to learn, insanely popular, and in high demand on the freelance job market.

If you plan to become a front-end developer in the future, you can start making money in a matter of days or weeks .

The most simple jobs for freelancers online are usually something like fixing broken links, adjusting CSS for some styling, or adding some new content to a website.

As soon as you feel confident in your skills, just go for it.

Set up a professional-looking profile on Upwork. List your skills and let your personality shine through in your profile bio.

Then, start bidding for a few projects. Only target very small, easy gigs at this point.

Keep your rates low. Explain that you are offering low rates because you want your first reviews.

Respond to potential clients promptly and clearly.

If you want to learn more about getting started with freelancing, grab your copy of my popular guide on how to make your first $100 from small freelance jobs .

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2: Full-time job

Feeling like climbing the corporate ladder?

In that case, you could consider learning coding to get a full-time developer job in the future.

Learn the necessary skills, build a stellar portfolio, and start applying for jobs.

Join a company you find interesting and see where you can go.

The job market for developers seems is booming – and it has for years already.

In the US alone, the employment for computer and IT occupations is estimated to grow 13% from 2016-2026 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is faster than the average for all occupations.

The demand for skilled developers is high and continues to grow.

What tech specializations can you learn and start a career with?

Let’s look at four popular entry-level specializations you can choose between:

  • Front-end web development
  • Back-end web development
  • Mobile app development
  • Data analysis and data science

#1: Front-end web development

Web developers create websites and web applications. If you want to earn money as a web developer, you can choose between front-end and back-end web development .

As a front-end developer, you are responsible for the visible parts of a website project.

Front-end developers create everything that the user can see and interact with.

They work closely with graphic designers and product designers. It is your job as a front-end developer to code the website to look the way the designers intended.

What skills do front-end web developers need?

For an entry-level job, you will need to learn three languages:

  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to create the actual content like text, images, links, etc.
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to style and design the content created with HTML
  • JavaScript to add interactivity and dynamic features to a website

Learning three languages for an entry-level job may feel a bit daunting.

However, you can easily learn the basics of HTML and CSS in just days or a couple of weeks.

Learning how to master JavaScript will take longer.

But you will continue to practice your HTML and CSS skills along the way, since these three languages work seamlessly together.

How much does a junior front-end developer make?

According to Glassdoor , the average salary for an entry-level front-end web developer is $81,135 annually in the US.

For more details, read my guide on how much front-end web developers make .

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#2: Back-end web development

Back-end web developers create everything that is not visible to the end users on a website.

They create and code the programs for storing and processing data from users.

Features like logging in, creating user profiles, messaging, or uploading files are all created by back end web developers.

Back-end developers need to work closely with front-end developers to make sure the website has all the required features and works smoothly.

What skills do back-end web developers need?

Here are a few popular back-end programming languages :

  • Python is a very powerful, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming language.
  • PHP is a server-side programming language used by nearly 80% of all websites, including all WordPress-powered websites.
  • Ruby is a popular language for creating web applications, especially in startups; easy to pick up and yet very powerful.
  • SQL is a language for managing databases.

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How much does an entry-level back-end developer make?

According to Glassdoor , the average salary for an entry-level back-end web developer is $84,900 annually in the US.

#3: Mobile application development

Mobile developers build applications that run on mobile devices, like cell phones and tablets.

The challenge in this field is to create a user-friendly and intuitive functionality with the smaller screen size and without a proper keyboard.

Most mobile developers build their apps for two of the biggest app stores:

  • Apple App Store is the home for the apps for all iOS devices (iPhones, iPads)
  • Google Play Store hosts all the apps for devices running the Android operating system

If you wish to build apps for iOS devices, you need to learn two programming languages: Objective-C and Swift.

For app development for Android devices, you would learn Java.

Even though the market for mobile apps is not booming like it was a few years back, there is still high demand for skilled and professional developers in this field.

How much does a Junior Mobile Application Developer make?

The average salary for an entry-level mobile app developer in the U.S. is $106,687, according to Glassdoor .

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#4: Data analysis and data science

Data analysts and data scientists work with massive amounts of data, processing it to find insights that can bring value to their employer.

In general, data analysis is heavily focused on statistics and searching for patterns in the data.

Thanks to the growing popularity of machine learning and artificial intelligence, data science is one of the most financially lucrative skills you can learn.

There are tons of daily, practical applications for data-based insights, from Alexa to suggestions for movies you’d like to watch next on Netflix.

If you enjoy working with statistics and sifting through data to discover patterns and valuable insights, this could be your field.

What skills do data analysts and data scientists need?

Here are the most popular languages and technologies for data analysis and data science:

If you’re curious to learn more, the free Understanding Data Science course at DataCamp teaches you the very basic fundamentals.

How much does a junior data analyst and data scientist make?

According to Glassdoor, the average annual salary for an entry-level data analyst is $76,843 in the US.

The average annual salary for an entry-level data scientist is $129,055 in the US.

3: Tech entrepreneur

Start your own tech startup or coding business!

How many times have you thought to yourself, “there should be an app for this..” ?

If you are into mobile development, you can start coding your own apps and become a tech entrepreneur.

Alternatively, if you have a great business idea and want to team up with other techies, you could launch your own tech startup.

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Your idea doesn’t even have to be anything revolutionary. The most successful startups have an incredibly simple business idea.

All you need to do is to offer people a way to do things more easily or quickly by using technology.

One successful and viable startup idea is to create a web application.

Team up with backend and front-end developers and create a tool you believe in.

I chose this path as a developer and started my own web design business back in the day. And honestly, I’ve never looked back.

For more details about how I started learning coding, check out my post Learning to Code? This is What I Learned in 6 Months .

How to learn coding and become an entrepreneur?

If you want to become a tech entrepreneur, here’s how you can get started:

Step 1: Gather, research, and develop business ideas

Every successful company has one thing in common:

They bring value to their customers.

If you can find a way to help people with an everyday task or solve a problem for them, why not make a business out of it?

Make sure it’s something you know a lot about and enjoy spending time with.

Step 2: Research the current market and competition

Find out everything you can about the current market:

  • Is there demand there?
  • Who is your ideal customer?
  • Who are your competitors?
  • What are their strengths and weaknesses?
  • How can you reach and target potential clients?
  • Will you offer your product or service locally, nationally, or globally?

In the beginning, you might only offer one service locally.

As you learn more and become more confident in your skills, your portfolio will grow organically.

You can reach a bigger client base by offering a wider range of services or by extending your marketing beyond your local area.

Step 3: Figure out your unique selling point

Your unique selling point (or USP) sets you apart from your competition. It helps you stand out from everyone else on the market.

It’s the reason why your customers will choose you over all other providers.

For me, my USP was something as simple as a friendly and approachable image. I’m here to help my website clients to achieve their goals, not mine.

Also, I learned that most website clients struggle with managing an entire team of designers and developers.

To make their lives easier, I decided to offer a full-service package. I take care of the design, the development, and all communication. My clients only have one contact person and I take care of everything for them.

Don’t overthink you USP.

Most customers are willing to pay extra for simple solutions that make their lives easier.

Step 4: Craft a benefit-driven product or service

Based on everything you know so far, start refining your ideas.

Figure out whether you will offer a product or a service to your customers.

  • Products require bigger investments up front. Once everything is set up properly, they scale well.
  • Services can be offered with very little investments, as long as you have the right tools to manage your customer base.

Of course, starting your own business entails much more, but you get the idea.

It’s all about helping your future customers with a benefit-driven solution to a specific problem.

4: Mobile applications

We all have them on our phones, right?

It’s no secret that mobile apps are still in high demand.

The good news?

They aren’t that difficult to create.

In fact, you can even find software these days that take care of all the programming for you.

However, most of us prefer to code our apps from scratch.

Nevertheless, you’ll also need a good bunch of design and marketing skills to turn your app into a business.

Where should you start, then?

First, you need to decide which platform you want to target:

  • Android devices (sell your apps on Google Play)
  • iOS devices (sell your apps on App Store)

Both use different programming languages and technologies. Thus, you need to know what you want to build before you can learn the right skills.

Let’s take a quick look at both specializations:

Mobile apps for Android devices:

If you’re building and selling apps to Android users, Java is your #1 programming language to work with.

The best thing about Java is that it’s such a versatile language. It doesn’t restrict you to just mobile app development.

To get started right away, try these two learning resources:

  • Beginning Android Development Track : This was my first Android dev course with Team Treehouse and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s perfect for absolute beginners.
  • Android Development Tutorial : I’m a huge fan of Derek Banas’ YouTube channel, and this is just another one of his beginner-level videos you should definitely check out.

Mobile apps for iOS devices (iPhones and iPads):

If you want to target iOS users, you need to learn Swift and Objective-C .

If you are serious about getting your first app on its feet quickly, you can create a very basic iOS app within a few days.

Just remember that you need an Apple computer to create iOS apps. The development tools required only run on a Mac.

If you can’t get your hands on a Mac right now, use a PC instead and create apps for Android users.

Here are two courses to get started:

  • iOS Tutorial: How To Make Your First App : In this free YouTube tutorial, Chris shows you how to program an iOS app from scratch. Super easy to follow!
  • iOS 13 & Swift 5 – The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp : This is one of the best-rated courses on Udemy, with over 50 hours of step-by-step video tutorials from the amazing Dr. Angela Yu.

What you should do next:

Once you’ve chosen your platform, it’s time for market research.

The best apps are simple. They solve a very specific problem for their users.

Here are a few questions to think about:

  • Who is your target audience? (Be very specific)
  • What’s their biggest problem?
  • How can your app solve that problem?

Focus on a field you have experience in. The more you know about the topic, the easier it is to find pain points to solve with your app.

Keep your first app ideas simple and easy. Have fun with it and don’t bite off more than you can chew!

5: Blogging

I might be just a tad biased, but one of the best ways to make money coding is to start a tech blog.

Even if you just started learning how to code, you can share your experience with others who are just one step behind you.

If you’re familiar with web development basics and you know some HTML and CSS, you can build a basic blog website from scratch.

But an even faster way to get a coding blog on its feet is to use a Content Management System (or CMS).

WordPress is the most popular CMS worldwide with tons of powerful tools to help you create the best possible content you can.

I use WordPress for this blog, too, and I love it!

WordPress.org Content Management System

What can you blog about?

Choose a tech topic that you feel genuinely interested in.

You will spend a lot of time researching, creating content, and engaging with your readers. To make your life easier, pick a topic you love.

Choose a topic that’s very specific – a niche topic.

Niches are small, targeted fields that serve a specific target audience.

Niching down is the only way you can truly help you readers.

Plus, it’s easier to generate traffic through search engine optimization when your topic is narrow enough.

Here are a few niche examples:

  • Front-end web development career tips
  • Mobile app design tips for iOS applications
  • Coding course platform reviews
  • Career path tips for data science with Python
  • JavaScript programming tutorials and hacks
  • SQL tutorials for beginners
  • Web app development tutorials for Python and Django

Your topic needs to be something people are already searching for online.

When you start writing SEO friendly blog posts with relevant keywords, your blog will generate free, organic traffic through Google.

The more in-depth, helpful content you publish, the more traffic you will see.

How can you make money with a coding blog?

Here are four ways to monetize your tech blog:

  • Display ads: Join a display ad network for bloggers and set up ads on your blog website. Every click and view will earn you 100% passive income. The income will be very small at first, but will grow once you get more traffic.
  • Affiliate marketing: Why not recommend your favorite courses to your readers? Become an affiliate partner, link to your favorite course, and earn a commission every time someone purchases through your link.
  • Sell your own products: Set up an e-commerce system with WooCommerce or Shopify, or sell digital products with SendOwl or Gumroad to make money with your coding skills. Write an ebook, design cheatsheets for popular programming languages, or offer 1-on-1 tutoring for an hourly rate.
  • Sponsored content and collaborations: Once your blog generates more traffic, it becomes a lucrative platform for brands and companies to promote their products to your readers. You can easily make $1,000–2,000 per month from sponsored blog posts alone when you get 10,000+ monthly visitors. Check out this blogger rate card to see how much you can charge for sponsored content.

For more details on monetizing a blog, check out this post about how people make money blogging .

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How to start a programming blog:

For a full tutorial, check out my guide on how to start a successful programming blog from scratch .

The best part about starting a tech blog to make money?

Low start-up costs.

You can start your tech blog for less than $50 for your first year.

Not too bad, considering you can make anything between $500 to $5,000 per month from blogging.

To get your programming blog on its feet quickly, you need to find a reliable web hosting provider.

I’ve been using Bluehost for most of my websites since 2016. Their setup is easy and their team is quick to respond to my questions.

Before you sign up, compare a few providers. You don’t need anything fancy at this point, though.

Go with a cheap shared hosting plan to save money. You can always upgrade in the future.

I recommend Bluehost, and I’ve gone the extra mile to negotiate a deal for you:

My readers have access to an exclusive discount with hosting plans starting at just $2.95 per month .

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Again, you want to plan out your blog well in advance. The last thing you want is spend days and weeks creating content that doesn’t perform well.

As with all content online, your blog posts will perform best if they genuinely help your readers .

You need to find the pain points of your target audience and provide them with solutions to their problems.

For example, I blog about topics that are relevant to absolute coding beginners.

It’s my way of giving back to the community that once helped me start an entirely new career in tech. And I’ve never looked back.

Ready to start?

Head over to my guide on how to start a programming blog for a full step-by-step tutorial .

6: WordPress themes and plugins

If you want to make money coding from home, creating and selling useful WordPress themes and plugins is a lucrative option.

WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the Internet. Needless to say, the demand for user-friendly, helpful themes and plugins is extremely high.

If you have experience in a specific industry, for example, figure out a simple plugin that helps websites in that industry to generate more visitors, leads, and revenue.

Or simply create a small plugin that makes it easier to use WordPress every day. If you’ve used WordPress for a while, you will probably have a few nifty ideas already.

The free version of your plugin should include the basic features.

Additionally, offer a premium version with even more tools that solve problems and help users save time, for example.

Here are a few platforms where you can sell WordPress themes and plugins:

  • Mojo Marketplace
  • TemplateMonster
  • Themeforest

Themeforest by Envato Market - WordPress themes and website templates

7: Scripts and small software

Building a piece of software might sound intimidating. But if you keep it small, this way to make money programming is one of the best ones.

You can also sell helpful automation scripts that help people save time at work, for example.

How does it work, then?

First, you find a specific market that you like working with. The people working in that field will be your target audience, so it helps to know as much as you can about them.

Coding software is all about helping others by solving problems for them.

You want to find a specific issue you could solve for this target audience.

Most often, you already know a few pain points that people are struggling with.

Remember to find out more about your competitors, too.

Here are a few platforms for selling your scripts and code:

Don’t forget to work on your marketing skills! You need to know how to promote and sell your final product to the right audience.

8: YouTube channel

YouTube is one of the best platforms to make money coding by publishing video tutorials.

If you haven’t already, check out these top YouTube Channels to learn programming and web development this year.

Find something you’re really good at. Make sure it’s also something you genuinely enjoy teaching others.

Find out what beginners are struggling with in that area.

Then, record short videos of yourself solving those problems.

Your setup doesn’t have to be anything fancy.

You can simply record what you do on your screen and see how your viewers respond.

Traversy Media YouTube channel

To make things easier for yourself, make a long-term plan for your YouTube channel:

  • Figure out a logical learning path that you’ll guide your viewers along.
  • Start with the basics, assuming your viewers no absolutely nothing about the topic.
  • Proceed to more advanced topics like building practical projects with code.

Millions of people are learning programming online. Sadly, most online courses lack a guided learning experience using real-life projects. Focus on that!

Now, how can you make money on YouTube?

How to make money with programming skills on YouTube:

You can publish your videos on YouTube for free.

YouTube pays money to content creators for views.

The more views your videos attract, the higher your income will be.

To make money coding on YouTube, you have two options:

  • Publish full tutorials on YouTube: If YouTube is your main income source, publish full-length tutorials that cover everything your target audience needs to know. In-depth, high-quality videos keep people engaged and you will generate longer views with multiple ads and higher income.
  • Promote your main product on YouTube: If you’re selling an online course, use YouTube as a promotion channel. Publish short videos where people can learn the basics. Drop a link to your course website so that people can find your in-depth tutorials, too.

9: Online coding courses

Coding and web development skills are in high demand around the world. The tech job market is growing much faster than the average for all industries.

The global e-learning market was worth $215 billion USD in 2021. It is forecast to reach almost $400 billion USD by 2026, and $645 billion USD by 2030.

Thus, we can expect to see a lot of demand for high-quality coding courses for years to come.

In other words:

Millions of people want to learn how to code!

If you are serious about making money with your coding skills, creating an online course is one of the most scalable strategies out there.

You can sell your course through an online learning platform like Udemy .

Development courses catalog on Udemy

If you’re not familiar, Udemy is a massive e-learning platform with thousands of individual courses for learning anything you can imagine.

For more details, read my full Udemy review .

Teaching others what you know doesn’t require you to be the best programmer in the world.

You simply need to be one step ahead of someone to teach them what you know.

Of course, you should possess a solid skillset in the field you want to teach.

Also, you want to make sure you’re on par with your potential competitors.

Thus, if you love teaching others and you know how to explain complex topics to beginners, why not try it out?

How to make money creating online courses:

The best way to break through on massive online learning platforms is to focus on a specific niche.

Find an area of expertise, combine it with your tech skills, and see if there’s demand for a course like that.

When you’ve built your course curriculum, it’s time to produce your content.

To reach more potential students, set up a blog with some free tutorials to build some authority and traffic.

Then, send your visitors to your online course. If they liked your free tutorials, they are likely to purchase your course, too.

Once you’re all set up, the learning platform of your choice will take care of marketing and everything else.

Your course will earn you passive income, and you can start working on your next course already.

10: Online programming tutorials

If you don’t want to create a full-scale coding course, you can also monetize your tech skills by offering coding tutorials online.

After all, if you’re enjoying coding, why not teach others what you’ve learned?

What’s the best way to monetize coding tutorials, then?

Start by setting up your own website.

Sign up for web hosting and register a domain name.

I’ve negotiated a deal for my readers with Bluehost, starting at just $2.95 per month . You will even get a free domain name for a year.

Set up a clean and well-structured website.

If you want to build a full-scale coding tutorial website, you don’t need to code it from scratch.

Right now, you simply want your website up and running so that you can start selling your tutorials asap.

Use WordPress to get your website online today.

Structure your tutorials well. Pick a very narrow topic and plan an entire tutorial learning path. Each tutorial should cover a specific milestone for a bigger project.

In the beginning, it’s perfectly OK to simply record your screen while you work on simple projects.

Add a few comments, helpful tips, and a voiceover for extra guidance.

Ta-dah! You just created your first video tutorial!

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How to make money with online programming tutorials:

What about the money? How do you make an income with tutorials?

You have a couple of options here:

  • Make money with display ads: Sign up with a display ad network and populate your tutorial videos with a few ads. Every time someone sees or clicks an ad, you’ll earn passive income. If you upload your videos to YouTube, you can monetize them easily with the Google AdSense display ad program.
  • Sell subscription plans or memberships: Set up an online shop and restrict access to your tutorials to members only. Monetize your content by selling lifetime memberships or monthly subscriptions.
  • Create an online course: If you don’t want to spend time on creating your own website, use a platform like Teachable or Skillshare to publish your tutorials as a course. They take care of most of the “boring” stuff, such as billing, which is a massive time-saver.

Creating a website for coding tutorials takes a lot of work.

But once everything is set up, you can focus on marketing and growing your traffic.

Slowly but surely, you should start seeing your income increase as your audience grows.

11: E-books

Similar to courses and tutorials, e-books allow you to sell your knowledge to anyone who’s one step behind you.

Pick a topic you enjoy researching and spending time with.

Here’s how you can create the perfect e-book:

  • Know your target audience: Figure out a problem your e-book solves. How does it make your readers’ lives easier? What’s in it for them? The better you know your target audience, the easier it is to pick a pain point your e-book helps them solve.
  • Map out your e-book contents and chapters: Each chapter should represent a milestone along the way to the solution your e-book delivers. This will ensure that your e-book is easy to read and follow.
  • Cover the topic thoroughly: Your e-book should be at least 10,000+ words long. That’s enough to explain and discuss a very narrow niche topic.

If you plan your e-book carefully and do your research well, it should take a few weeks or a few months to finish writing it. It depends on the length and depth of your topic.

When you finish writing and editing your e-book, make sure you let at least a few people read it before you start selling it.

Here are my recommended e-commerce tools for selling e-book products:

  • SendOwl allows you to upload your e-book as a PDF and sell it worldwide.
  • GumRoad is similar to SendOwl, but they charge commissions of up to 9%.
  • WooCommerce is free e-commerce plugin for WordPress. If you own a WordPress website, extend it into an online shop with WooCommerce.

Sendowl homepage

12: Work for local businesses

One of the easiest ways to find your first clients is to look in your area.

Go through your contacts and local shops and businesses. See if they have websites that are outdated, difficult to use, or even broken.

In general, small local businesses can’t afford a $10,000 website makeover. Instead, they’re interested in simple and affordable solutions.

As long as you can show them how your skills and solutions match their needs, they’re likely to hire you.

And it doesn’t need to be anything too big if you’re just a beginner. Simply offer a little facelift for their website, for example.

Once you get your foot in the door, that client will most likely contact you for future work.

With that said, keep in mind that your first gigs won’t pay too much.

But remember that you’re still learning. With each small project you finish, you’ll gain valuable experience in working with clients. And as a bonus, you’ll get a real-life project to showcase in your portfolio.

What’s the best way to make money programming for you?

Ok, you should have a nice overview of a few different ways to make money as a programmer.

The next step is to find one or more methods you feel most drawn to.

Remember that there is no best path for making money with programming.

You need to be aware of which methods align the best with how you work and what you know.

Here’s a short summary to help you combine your current skills and passion with programming:

  • Writing skills: If you love technical writing, start a programming blog or write e-books to sell online.
  • Speaking skills: Good speakers often make great teachers. Start a YouTube channel with video tutorials or create an online course.
  • Teaching skills: If you’re a good teacher, you’ll know how to help others learn. Build an online course or offer tutorials on your website.
  • Design skills: Are colors, typography, and layouts your thing? If so, why not combine them with your coding skills and become a full-stack web dev freelancer? Alternatively, you could consider creating beautiful website themes or templates to sell.
  • Project management skills: If you can hold all the strings firmly in your hands, consider building your own software. Alternatively, you can start your own small web development service business.

The bottom line is to find things you love and excel in. Pair them with your tech skills and you’re all set.

Oh and one more thing: focus your efforts on only one money-making method at first.

Make sure you establish a steady foothold with that before proceeding to the next one. Taking on too much too soon will just make you feel scattered and overwhelmed.

Stay focused, find your passion, and turn that into determination to keep going!

I want to make money coding. Where should I start?

So you’re ready to get started? Awesome, congrats!

To get started the right way, you need to get into the right mindset.

I see a lot of beginners overthink this. They just end up feeling too overwhelmed, setting unrealistic expectations for themselves.

But what it all boils down to is this:

Whatever method you choose to make money coding from home, you need to find the biggest pain point of your target audience.

As long as you can solve those problems, you’re a potential candidate for the job.

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How I started making money coding from home

Let me quickly explain how I started making money with my tech skills a few years back:

I started making money coding with small freelance jobs on Upwork.

They were quick and easy HTML and CSS adjustments I finished in 1-2 hours each.

But to be honest, it was downright daunting to apply for those first gigs.

I had no professional tech experience, so I had zero confidence.

But I knew I had to start somewhere.

How did it turn out?

I landed my first small freelance jobs after a handful of applications. It took time, but it was worth it.

After a few months, I quit my job and started my own web development and web design business.

I’ve never been short of work. I can choose my clients and decide when and where I work.

My job has given me the absolute freedom in life . I am my own boss and decide when I get out of bed, take a nap, or work remotely when I travel.

Sounds good?

Here’s how you can get started right now:

Step 1: Define your goals and your why

The first thing you need to figure out is your “why” :

  • Why are you learning coding?
  • What do you want to build in the future? 
  • What do you want to achieve in the long run?

Read my article on how to start learning to code from scratch. It will help you find your why and start your journey towards becoming a professional developer the right way.

Step 2: Make sure your skills are in demand

Learning what you love is one thing. But finding someone to pay you for helping them with your skills is a different thing.

And this is where most beginners get it wrong. They want to sell their skills instead of solutions .

They want to create supply without knowing if there’s demand in the market.

Let me explain:

For example, let’s say you’re learning Python. You love the language and you want to become a Python developer. And hey, nothing wrong with that – that’s a great goal!

But before you start planning your future career, what you should ask first is:

  • Can I make money with this skill?
  • Where can I find jobs?
  • When will I be ready to apply for them?

If you want a full-time job, your chances for finding one depend on where you’re looking.

In some areas, you’ll find more jobs for Python skills than in others.

If you want to start freelancing, some skills are easier to monetize than others.

You’ll find much more job openings for front-end developers than for complex data science projects.

Thus, you can learn enough HTML and CSS to find your first jobs in a matter of weeks. But mastering large-scale data analysis with Python takes more time.

For more details, check out my guide on the best programming languages and skills for freelance developers .

Step 3: Create your portfolio website draft

When you know why you want to do this and you’re sure that there’s demand in the job market, you’re all set!

Now you need a portfolio website. You’ll use it to reach your target audience and promote your services to them.

Here are a few points to be mindful of when creating your portfolio site:

  • Target audience and ideal clients: Match the features and design to appeal to your target clients.
  • Core service or product: Set a clear core offering that draws from your unique selling point (USP).
  • Secondary and complementary services: Offer complementary services in the future to produce even more value to your clients.
  • Site structure and content: Keep it simple. Draft some short text for your Homepage, About page, Contact page, and Services.

At first, it can be just a simple one-pager about you and what yo do.

As your skills improve, you can add more content that appeals to your target clients.

When you finish a project, add it to your portfolio to showcase your best skills.

You’ll find all the resources you need for setting up your website right here.

My first portfolio website was build around my core service of building simple but beautiful websites for small businesses and other freelancers.

Later, I added a couple of secondary services:

  • Website care and maintenance plans
  • Search engine optimization (SEO) for websites
  • E-commerce solutions for SMEs
  • Site speed optimization for WordPress websites

I tried to keep everything as clear and simple as possible.

The most important lesson I learned was: nobody cares about my skills per se.

Freelance clients don’t care which programming languages I know.

They want to see how you can help them and solve their problems.

Hence, don’t just list all the programming languages and tools you work with on your portfolio site. No one cares. The average client doesn’t know what they mean.

Instead, tell them how you can make their lives easier with the services you provide.

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Step 4: Get web hosting and register a domain name

Now your portfolio website needs a web hosting plan and a domain name to go online.

You can pick a domain name based on your name, for example.

Make sure it’s professional and reflects who you are and what you do.

As for web hosting, there are hundreds of providers you can choose from. You want to look for:

  • Reliable uptime (your website can’t be offline!)
  • Easy and helpful support features
  • Solid technical performance

I launch all my websites and new projects on Bluehost.com .

They have a quick and easy signup process, and you get a free domain when you sign up for hosting.

As a little bonus, I’ve negotiated an exclusive hosting package for you starting at just  $2.95 per month  (yep, that’s a shameless affiliate link).

Start with the Basic plan. It’s enough to get you started. If you need to, you can always upgrade.

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You need to pay for a minimum of 12 months up front. But the cost is still very cheap, $35.40 for an entire year.

Step 5: Create a homepage

When you’ve finished your signup and you’re logged in to your hosting admin area, you can create a homepage right away.

The quickest way to create your portfolio website is to use WordPress . It’s a powerful but easy-to-use content management system or CMS.

If you want to create your website from scratch, just write a few HTML and CSS files to get your homepage set up.

For a very basic website, start by writing a few paragraphs of content. Write a short bio about yourself and why you’re learning coding and web development.

Also, add a link to your LinkedIn or Twitter profiles! This helps your visitors find out more and connect with you.

Now upload your files to your web server:

If you’re using Bluehost , you’ll find a root folder on your hosting account called “public_html” . That’s where you can upload your HTML and CSS files via FTP. Just make sure you name your homepage file “index.html” .

For a step-by-step guide, check out my post on how to build a website from scratch .

Congratulations! You now have a portfolio page online!

Step 6: Start learning the right coding tools

Now that you have your portfolio all set up, it’s time to find the best resources to start learning coding.

Whenever you finish a small project of your own, upload it to your portfolio page for the world to see.

To get started, feel free to use free online courses to learn the basics.

Check out Codecademy or freeCodeCamp to get started, for instance.

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If you have the time, try out a couple different programming languages to see which one you prefer working with.

Then, go through a beginner-level course to get more familiar with it.

Check out these free websites to learn coding for beginners to get started.

For more courses and tutorials, use these hand-picked web developer courses and books sorted by category:

  • HTML and CSS Courses
  • JavaScript Courses
  • Python Courses
  • PHP Courses

These should get you well on your way!

If you have any questions about the courses and other material, just drop me a line in the comments below!

Step 7: Build projects for your portfolio

When you learn to code, build as many practical (and meaningful!) projects of your own as possible.

As you work your way through coding tutorials and exercises, take breaks to build something on your own.

See how comfortable you are with applying what you just learned to your own side projects.

If you need to use a cheatsheet as a reference, that’s perfectly OK.

But if you still need to follow a tutorial for every line of code you write, you need more practice.

The solution:

Build more projects!

You’ll find great ideas and inspiration in most coding courses and books.

However, the best side projects are the ones that help you solve a problem for yourself .

Think about how you could create a simple app or program that helps you in your daily life.

Here are a few things your own programs could do for you:

  • Filter and sort emails automatically
  • Rename and organize your files
  • Generate reports at work
  • Scrape the WWW for the most recent news stories on a specific topic

Here are a few helpful resources for building fun coding projects:

  • Free guide: How to finish your coding projects faster (15 smart tips)
  • 24 JavaScript projects for beginners (with source code)
  • 30 Python project ideas (beginner + advanced level)

Remember: anything is possible with coding!

Start small and find solutions to problems by dividing them into smaller pieces. Setting up milestones helps you tackle bigger projects without feeling overwhelmed.

Then, finish one milestone at a time until you achieve your goal.

Once you have build a portfolio that showcases your skills, start applying for jobs!

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By now, you may already be brainstorming ideas for monetizing your coding skills. That’s great!

To make your journey easier and smoother, here are a few smart tips for earning money coding from home:

Tip #1: Learn the right skills for YOU

Coding and tech are vast fields with tons of skills and specializations.

One person can only learn and know so much.

I see lots of beginners learn skills they will never need.

In fact, most beginners pick their first programming language based on what other people have told them.

After a few months, they realize that it’s not the right tool for the type of projects they want to work with.

To save time and make money faster, pick a specialization you enjoy. Do it now.

If you are a visual person and love designing beautiful web pages, learn front-end web development.

If you enjoy working with logic and rules, back-end development may be your thing.

If analyzing data feels exciting, learn data analysis skills.

Read more in my full guide on what programming language you should learn .

Tip #2: Be strategic about your projects

If you want to get hired fast, you need a professional-looking portfolio.

Your portfolio showcases your best work samples to potential clients and employers.

Needless to say, it should include relevant, targeted projects that your ideal client or employer finds interesting.

For example, let’s say you want to make money coding by building websites for restaurants.

When local restaurant owners visit your portfolio, they want to see beautiful restaurant website examples.

Summing it up:

Build projects that help you land your next job. Everything else is a waste of your time.

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Tip #3: Learn to say “no”

When you start building your tech career, the last thing you want is to burn yourself out.

I see tons of beginner developers say “yes” to every work project they can get.

And I totally understand it. When the gigs start coming in, it’s hard to say “no”.

But you have to learn it.

Every project is like a small job. Every client is essentially your boss.

With 10 projects running simultaneously, it gets hard to keep track of everything. You will feel overwhelmed with emails, meetings, deadlines, and feedback.

Soon enough, the quality of your work will take a hit and your clients won’t be happy anymore.

So although it may not be easy, start practising saying “no” asap. You can thank me later.

Tip #4: Charge more than you feel is right

If you are new to tech and just starting out with making money from coding, I know you don’t want to scare off clients by charging too much.

But freelancers tend to undercharge for their skills.

Sure, part of it is because of imposter syndrome.

When you do what you love, you usually don’t see the value you deliver.

Plus, if you are just getting started, you may not even realize how much you know already.

If you are not sure what to charge, check how much your competitors charge in your area. You don’t have to match them, but you also shouldn’t sell yourself too cheap.

Tip #5: Ask for testimonials

The best way to sell your skills is word-of-mouth.

Happy clients spread the word about your services to people they know. There’s always someone who needs help with their website.

When they hear how you helped a client, they already trust you more than your competitors.

Getting testimonials and referrals increases your reach, saves you time on marketing, and generates better leads.

The best way to get positive testimonials?

Treat every client as if they were your only one.

When a client feels like they’re your #1 priority, they will be more than happy to tell others about your services, too.

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Tip #6: Create multiple income streams

Making money coding is a vast field of different monetization opportunities.

You don’t need to limit yourself to just one monetization method.

In fact, I strongly advice against putting all your eggs in one basket.

The smarter way is to set up at least two income sources.

For example, if you freelance, that’s a great primary income source.

But freelancing is sometimes seasonal, and your income will fluctuate.

To balance things out, set up a passive income stream. Sell an e-book or promote affiliate products on your blog, for example.

Multiple income streams help you build an entire empire of tech-related side gigs.

A reliable passive income source allows you to take time off, too.

Tip #7: Take care of your taxes

Last but not least:

Stay on top of your taxes at all times.

Freelancers and self-employed techies receive their payments in full.

Hence, you need to take care of deductions for taxes, insurances, retirement, etc. when you get paid.

The last thing you want is an angry letter from the IRS about missing payments.

Luckily, financial stress is very easy to avoid.

Speak to a professional accountant before you embark on your freelance journey. It can save you a lot of stress.

Yes, you can. To make money coding, you need to learn how to build something useful and meaningful with code. When your code solves a problem or answers a question, it delivers value. Whenever you provide value, you can expect companies to pay for it. You can learn the skills online using coding courses, tutorials, and bootcamps.

The average annual pay for computer programmers working from home is $64,974 annually in the US. That’s an average hourly rate of $31.24. Your income depends on how you monetize your coding skills. Freelancing, blogging, selling online courses, writing e-books, and offering paid tutorials have different expected income levels.

Yes, teenagers can make money coding, too. Check with your local authorities to make sure you follow all regulations. You can start a coding blog, take on freelance jobs, develop mobile apps, sell e-books, or offer online coding courses, for example.

Yes. When you are new to coding, you will start slow, but your earnings will ramp up quickly. Learning to code is still lucrative, with plenty of income opportunities: freelancing, blogging, selling your own e-books, producing online courses, and more.

Freelancing is the fastest way to make money coding if you are new to tech. You can apply for your first jobs with basic HTML and CSS knowledge, and increase your hourly rate as you gain experience. The best way to make money coding depends on your strengths: good writers earn money selling e-books and blogging, while good speakers make great online course instructors and mentors.

Final thoughts: How to make money coding

I hope you’re still with me – this was a long post! I hope you found a few ideas on how to make money coding from home.

Learning how to code is an insanely powerful way to acquire new skills you can use for a huge variety of jobs in the future.

You can make money with your coding skills when you are still learning. You don’t need a degree. You don’t need years of experience. You don’t need to be the best developer out there.

You simply need to know how to solve people’s problems and answer their questions.

Learning the skills you need to make money programming doesn’t have to be expensive.

I invested between $20 to $30 in two courses on Udemy before I got my first online freelance jobs.

Not sure where to start learning? Check out my post with the best websites to learn programming and web development .

So when can you start making money coding then?

If you want a full-time job, I recommend freelancing while you are learning.

Working with clients gives you valuable experience that employers want to see.

Plus, by the time it’s time to apply for your first full-time job, you will have a portfolio with real-life projects to showcase your skills.

That’s what I did, too. So yes, I maybe a bit biased. Nevertheless, I soon landed bigger, better-paying jobs and became a full-time freelancer.

If you are ready to start today, steal my freelancing secrets and grab your copy of my popular $100 freelancing guide !

What are your plans for making money with coding? Share your thoughts and ideas in the comments below!

Happy coding! – Mikke

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How to Solve Coding Problems with a Simple Four Step Method

I had fifteen minutes left, and I knew I was going to fail.

I had spent two months studying for my first technical interview.

I thought I was prepared, but as the interview came to a close, it hit me: I had no idea how to solve coding problems.

Of all the tutorials I had taken when I was learning to code, not one of them had included an approach to solving coding problems.

I had to find a method for problem-solving—my career as a developer depended on it.

I immediately began researching methods. And I found one. In fact, what I uncovered was an invaluable strategy. It was a time-tested four-step method that was somehow under the radar in the developer ecosystem.

In this article, I’ll go over this four-step problem-solving method that you can use to start confidently solving coding problems.

Solving coding problems is not only part of the developer job interview process—it’s what a developer does all day. After all, writing code is problem-solving.

A method for solving problems

This method is from the book How to Solve It by George PĂłlya. It originally came out in 1945 and has sold over one million copies.

His problem-solving method has been used and taught by many programmers, from computer science professors (see Udacity’s Intro to CS course taught by professor David Evans) to modern web development teachers like Colt Steele.

Let’s walk through solving a simple coding problem using the four-step problem-solving method. This allows us to see the method in action as we learn it. We'll use JavaScript as our language of choice. Here’s the problem:

Create a function that adds together two numbers and returns that value. There are four steps to the problem-solving method:

  • Understand the problem.
  • Devise a plan.
  • Carry out the plan.

Let’s get started with step one.

Step 1: Understand the problem.

When given a coding problem in an interview, it’s tempting to rush into coding. This is hard to avoid, especially if you have a time limit.

However, try to resist this urge. Make sure you actually understand the problem before you get started with solving it.

Read through the problem. If you’re in an interview, you could read through the problem out loud if that helps you slow down.

As you read through the problem, clarify any part of it you do not understand. If you’re in an interview, you can do this by asking your interviewer questions about the problem description. If you’re on your own, think through and/or Google parts of the question you might not understand.

This first step is vital as we often don’t take the time to fully understand the problem. When you don’t fully understand the problem, you’ll have a much harder time solving it.

To help you better understand the problem, ask yourself:

What are the inputs?

What kinds of inputs will go into this problem? In this example, the inputs are the arguments that our function will take.

Just from reading the problem description so far, we know that the inputs will be numbers. But to be more specific about what the inputs will be, we can ask:

Will the inputs always be just two numbers? What should happen if our function receives as input three numbers?

Here we could ask the interviewer for clarification, or look at the problem description further.

The coding problem might have a note saying, “You should only ever expect two inputs into the function.” If so, you know how to proceed. You can get more specific, as you’ll likely realize that you need to ask more questions on what kinds of inputs you might be receiving.

Will the inputs always be numbers? What should our function do if we receive the inputs “a” and “b”? Clarify whether or not our function will always take in numbers.

Optionally, you could write down possible inputs in a code comment to get a sense of what they’ll look like:

//inputs: 2, 4

What are the outputs?

What will this function return? In this case, the output will be one number that is the result of the two number inputs. Make sure you understand what your outputs will be.

Create some examples.

Once you have a grasp of the problem and know the possible inputs and outputs, you can start working on some concrete examples.

Examples can also be used as sanity checks to test your eventual problem. Most code challenge editors that you’ll work in (whether it’s in an interview or just using a site like Codewars or HackerRank) have examples or test cases already written for you. Even so, writing out your own examples can help you cement your understanding of the problem.

Start with a simple example or two of possible inputs and outputs. Let's return to our addition function.

Let’s call our function “add.”

What’s an example input? Example input might be:

// add(2, 3)

What is the output to this? To write the example output, we can write:

// add(2, 3) ---> 5

This indicates that our function will take in an input of 2 and 3 and return 5 as its output.

Create complex examples.

By walking through more complex examples, you can take the time to look for edge cases you might need to account for.

For example, what should we do if our inputs are strings instead of numbers? What if we have as input two strings, for example, add('a', 'b')?

Your interviewer might possibly tell you to return an error message if there are any inputs that are not numbers. If so, you can add a code comment to handle this case if it helps you remember you need to do this.

Your interviewer might also tell you to assume that your inputs will always be numbers, in which case you don’t need to write any extra code to handle this particular input edge case.

If you don’t have an interviewer and you’re just solving this problem, the problem might say what happens when you enter invalid inputs.

For example, some problems will say, “If there are zero inputs, return undefined.” For cases like this, you can optionally write a comment.

// check if there are no inputs.

// If no inputs, return undefined.

For our purposes, we’ll assume that our inputs will always be numbers. But generally, it’s good to think about edge cases.

Computer science professor Evans says to write what developers call defensive code. Think about what could go wrong and how your code could defend against possible errors.  

Before we move on to step 2, let’s summarize step 1, understand the problem:

-Read through the problem.

-What are the inputs?

-What are the outputs?

Create simple examples, then create more complex ones.

2. Devise a plan for solving the problem.

Next, devise a plan for how you’ll solve the problem. As you devise a plan, write it out in pseudocode.

Pseudocode is a plain language description of the steps in an algorithm. In other words, your pseudocode is your step-by-step plan for how to solve the problem.

Write out the steps you need to take to solve the problem. For a more complicated problem, you’d have more steps. For this problem, you could write:

// Create a sum variable.

Add the first input to the second input using the addition operator .

// Store value of both inputs into sum variable.

// Return as output the sum variable. Now you have your step-by-step plan to solve the problem. For more complex problems, professor Evans notes, “Consider systematically how a human solves the problem.” That is, forget about how your code might solve the problem for a moment, and think about how you would solve it as a human. This can help you see the steps more clearly.

3. Carry out the plan (Solve the problem!)

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The next step in the problem-solving strategy is to solve the problem. Using your pseudocode as your guide, write out your actual code.

Professor Evans suggests focusing on a simple, mechanical solution. The easier and simpler your solution is, the more likely you can program it correctly.

Taking our pseudocode, we could now write this:

Professor Evans adds, remember not to prematurely optimize. That is, you might be tempted to start saying, “Wait, I’m doing this and it’s going to be inefficient code!”

First, just get out your simple, mechanical solution.

What if you can’t solve the entire problem? What if there's a part of it you still don't know how to solve?

Colt Steele gives great advice here: If you can’t solve part of the problem, ignore that hard part that’s tripping you up. Instead, focus on everything else that you can start writing.

Temporarily ignore that difficult part of the problem you don’t quite understand and write out the other parts. Once this is done, come back to the harder part.

This allows you to get at least some of the problem finished. And often, you’ll realize how to tackle that harder part of the problem once you come back to it.

Step 4: Look back over what you've done.

Once your solution is working, take the time to reflect on it and figure out how to make improvements. This might be the time you refactor your solution into a more efficient one.

As you look at your work, here are some questions Colt Steele suggests you ask yourself to figure out how you can improve your solution:

  • Can you derive the result differently? What other approaches are there that are viable?
  • Can you understand it at a glance? Does it make sense?
  • Can you use the result or method for some other problem?
  • Can you improve the performance of your solution?
  • Can you think of other ways to refactor?
  • How have other people solved this problem?

One way we might refactor our problem to make our code more concise: removing our variable and using an implicit return:

With step 4, your problem might never feel finished. Even great developers still write code that they later look at and want to change. These are guiding questions that can help you.

If you still have time in an interview, you can go through this step and make your solution better. If you are coding on your own, take the time to go over these steps.

When I’m practicing coding on my own, I almost always look at the solutions out there that are more elegant or effective than what I’ve come up with.

Wrapping Up

In this post, we’ve gone over the four-step problem-solving strategy for solving coding problems.

Let's review them here:

  • Step 1: understand the problem.
  • Step 2: create a step-by-step plan for how you’ll solve it .
  • Step 3: carry out the plan and write the actual code.
  • Step 4: look back and possibly refactor your solution if it could be better.

Practicing this problem-solving method has immensely helped me in my technical interviews and in my job as a developer. If you don't feel confident when it comes to solving coding problems, just remember that problem-solving is a skill that anyone can get better at with time and practice.

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We used to give students dozens or hundreds of small targeted programming tasks, drilling each aspect of the syntax – the words and symbols – of programming. That worked well as a starting point, except now generative AI tools can solve all of these problems. Educators can try to ban these tools (good luck with that!), or embrace them. We chose to embrace them in our new course, where students learn to program – supported by a generative AI assistant.

What does the course explore?

The course re-imagines what learning to program means now that generative AI is available to handle more of the low-level syntax issues that have historically slowed down and frustrated students. The more students struggle with finicky syntax details, the less time and energy they have to accomplish their programming-related goals like starting a business, writing apps for social good, or contributing to projects that are meaningful to them.

Generative AI clears the decks for us to focus on more valuable, high-level skills that students need to become effective programmers. For example, generative AI struggles to solve large problems; we still need humans to divide those problems into bite-sized chunks – a process known as problem decomposition – each of which AI can solve well. People are still needed to test code to ensure it’s doing what was intended, and to ensure that the code is used to help, not harm, society and its vulnerable groups.

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The head of a screw is most likely to strip in an old screw that's been screwed in and out many times. But whether you're working with an old screw or a new one, your technique can also create an issue. For example, using the wrong screw bit when twisting the screw can sheer off some of the grooves. Likewise, being too heavy-handed or trying to torque the screw too quickly can have the same effect. And twisting the screw from an awkward angle so that the screwdriver or screw bit is not correctly engaged can certainly strip your screw in a hurry. 

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