How I would learn to code in 2026 (If I have to start over)
If you're sitting there in 2026 trying to figure out which programming language to learn, I have to tell you, you're asking the wrong question. And not for the reason you think.
In this video, I break down the right way to learn coding in 2026. What's actually changed, what's still the same, and what you need to focus on if you want to be a serious builder this year.
The teams shipping production AI right now, whether they are big firms or solo founders building real businesses, are not the ones who have memorized Python documentation. They are the ones who understand what they are building.
By the end of this video, you'll understand how to learn coding better than 95% of the people posting roadmaps on the internet today.
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Resources:
Python Fundamentals
CS50P (Harvard, Free): https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/
Python Data Structures: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/da...
AI Coding Tools
Cursor: https://cursor.sh/
Claude Code: https://claude.ai/
GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Libraries Mentioned
Pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/
FastAPI: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
LangChain: https://www.langchain.com/
Requests: https://requests.readthedocs.io/
Deployment
Hugging Face Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces
Streamlit: https://streamlit.io/
00:00 – You're Asking the Wrong Question
01:17 – Who I Am
01:41 – Why "Which Language" Is Dead
02:26 – Why I Recommend Python
03:04 – Data Structures Explained
04:09 – How Python Runs
04:52 – Project Structure
05:40 – Libraries and Versioning
06:20 – Modularity
07:28 – What Vibe Coding Actually Means
08:43 – 8-Step Development Lifecycle
12:17 – The Flywheel Method
14:15 – The Gen Academy
14:50 – Closing