--- title: How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product... description: Jonathan Adly talks about how he learned to code and built a real software product in 6 months. Adly is the co-founder and CEO of a company that builds... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-code-and-built-a-real-software-product-in-6-months-eg2quyzwv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product in 6 Months | daily.dev og:description: Jonathan Adly talks about how he learned to code and built a real software product in 6 months. Adly is the co-founder and CEO of a company that builds... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-code-and-built-a-real-software-product-in-6-months-eg2quyzwv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eG2quyzWV.png og:image:alt: How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product in 6 Months og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product in 6 Months **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@jonathan_adly_](https://daily.dev/jonathan_adly_) · 7 min read · 28 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Jonathan Adly talks about how he learned to code and built a real software product in 6 months. Adly is the co-founder and CEO of a company that builds software for the military. He's also the author of a book called The Code Game: How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product in 6 Months. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kmhmubin** · 0 upvotes > great article **@ocekl752** · 0 upvotes > Nice article! Congrats for your app. I réalité liker the concept and the design. --- Tags: [#django](https://daily.dev/tags/django), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-code-and-built-a-real-software-product-in-6-months-eg2quyzwv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I Learned to Code and Built a Real Software Product in 6 Months","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-code-and-built-a-real-software-product-in-6-months-eg2quyzwv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-code-and-built-a-real-software-product-in-6-months-eg2quyzwv"},"datePublished":"2020-12-10T00:48:36.502Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T08:06:00.215Z","description":"Jonathan Adly talks about how he learned to code and built a real software product in 6 months. 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