I signed up to Rob Percival's "Complete Web Developer Course" in March 2015 and reignited my passion for coding. Back in the day I was a kickass QBASIC programmer(2002 - way after QBASIC had gone out of fashion.) But since then I've only picked up the QT4 C++ library.
The internet has come of age and it's a lot easier for a fair weather amateur to learn coding now. Stack Overflow is proof of my point