How many hours worth of coding practice would it take to get a decent dev/coding job in the US?

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I have no CS degree, or coding background; how many hours worth of coding practice would it take to get a decent dev/coding job in the US?

(I'm aware that there are companies who will hire on the basis of portfolio strength as opposed to a CS degree)

Assuming I'm an average person with no tech background, would you be able to give me a *range*?

Does 1,000 hours sound about right?

Posted 17-Oct-15 14:11pm

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PIEBALDconsult 17-Oct-15 20:53pm

No.
Consider: two candidates solving the same set of problems -- which is better, the one who takes more time, or the one who takes less time?

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2015-10-17T17:24:00

There is no answer to your question because the question is wrong.
You don't measure skills in hours of coding.

Supposing the interviewer is skilled, you will unlikely get the job and never keep it for long if you don't have the needed knowledge.

Coding is only a small part of this king of job. You need to master the techniques that are teach to student that are studying for a CS degree.

This job is not about coding, it is about transforming/translating. Real life problems need to be translated to something compatible with computers and then, the result is translated in a computer language by coding. The most important part is the first translation, and for this, you need to know analyse techniques.

Example of how wrong is your question:
I have zero hours of coding in Python, but I am able to do corrections in pieces of code provided in this forum.