Thank you for opening the way for mentoring. For starters, it seems that the industry is big on web development but I am truly into software and app development. If you are able to help me with that, that’ll be great! A little about myself if I am currently active duty navy. I will be transitioning out in Feb 2020. Right now, I am currently enrolled in a nanodegree program with Udacity on Intro to Programming. I have been behind and the confusion is real! I want to get to the point where I can create websites but also create apps(mostly apps and software). I’m having a hard time to figure out where to start and how to do this… I see many mentors for web development but none for software and app dev. I heard there’s certifications in the dev world like C++? I wanted to know where to start, how to begin a side business even with a full time job, and which direction I should go in to become a software dev and app dev. Also what can I get now like certificates and anything else while the navy is still paying for my education and things like that.
Wow! Thank you. I will greatly appreciate any guidance you can give. I am happy to be a mentee of yours. Thank you so much again for opening this opportunity for CodeNewbies like me! I don’t mind going the web development route for now. I’m really excited and can’t wait to work on projects and continue learning.
The information given was perfect. May have been a lot for me to take in but it was perfect! Lol
I was wondering, where do I start? For now, I am in a Udacity course “Intro to Programming.” It has nine modules starting with HTML, CSS, Shell(terminal), PYTHON, and JAVASCRIPT. It was a bit overwhelming once we got into CSS floaters and margins, etc. I haven’t gotten through everything yet. I have gotten through the HTML, CSS, and one PYTHON out of two modules. No JavaScript yet… How much should I know to begin my first project? Should I be focusing on a project now?
Another thing, the internet is fulllllll of “help” but it’s overwhelming especially since I’m definitely still learning. Do you have any advice for someone like me who has a full time job during the day?
Talked with Kadijah about next steps. She wants to build mobile apps, and she wants to do it with web technologies. She’s not sure how to come up with ideas for apps. Told her to carry around a notebook and write down problems she has. These can serve as the seeds for her first app. Once she has that idea, she can start building the interface in HTML and CSS while also learning Javascript. Then, she can layer in interactivity with the Javascript she has learned. Once that’s done, she can learn React and adapt the Javascript app to react. Then, she will learn React-Native to adapt it to a mobile app.
- Promised to send her a good Javascript resource and some of my resources on selecting projects.