What can one with no prior coding knowledge do before beginning SoloLearn courses, in order to get the most from the experience?

Question

There are too many posts asking what to do after! Now that I've made it through most of the courses, my prerequisite list would include:
0. Basic math, algebra, and logic
1. FAQs and badge descriptions
2. Follow some high level members and mods
3. Read the boards
4. Open posted codes and manipulate/test them in the playground
5. Prepare a pocket in your mind for keys to the coding universe!
Also, I wouldn't consider any challenge until after completion of its corresponding course.
Care to add anything??

Answer 1

You have not posted another opinion, merely that you disagree with mine. I appreciate your opinion of my advice. What advice you have for a beginner here at SoloLearn is what I'm interested in, and have posted it as a question here.
I have recommended SoloLearn to many friends and family members, several of whom have never even considered a computer program. My 9-year-old nephew is too young, but more specifically, he does not understand algebra, so he is immediately lost. Once he learns algebra and logic, what should be his first experiences with SoloLearn, so that he doesn't miss out on the support network and information trove the community here uniquely provides?
How would you guide a friend to begin here, now that you've been here awhile? What did you find later, and perhaps wished you had found sooner, and vice versa? Doing it all over again from the beginning, how might you start? If you enjoyed the way you discovered SoloLearn, what path did you find? What paths did you make? Or should there specifically be no plan for a new person opening SoloLearn for the first time?

Answer 2

well said 👍