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Nika

How did you start with coding? (AKA how did you fall in love with that?) 👀🫶

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I got to the point when I need to hear your inspirational stories. 😅 Trying to force myself into coding. Are there existing such cases that you love only front-end/back-end more?

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Aditya Tiwari
Just start. If building complete applications is the intention, the fastest way to get going is to follow YT videos building fullstack applications end-to-end. Build consistency and momentum over time. All the best :)
Nika
@aditya_tiwari30 Thank you :) I tried YT courses but I need to have my own project – the things is ChatGPT did everything for me. :DD
Konrad S.
@aditya_tiwari30 @busmark_w_nika Never watched any YT tutorial. For me it's textbooks + official documentation + Stack Overflow. And when starting with coding, I'd just stay away from AI tools completely for a time.
Alex
I had an internship a few years ago where I thought I would be solving equations on a chalkboard, but ended up having to build out an application in Python instead. Over the years, that first Python experience gave me a much deeper appreciation for backend, and the frontend roles I've done since which were much easier as a result. Any type of coding just feels like fun digital Lego to me now. I've never looked back, it was love at first byte.
André J
Find an idea your are passionate about. Then adrenaline takes you the rest of the way. thats it. rinse repeat ad infinitum. 🦄
Nika
@sentry_co I have several. BUT I found a quite "cheat-shortcut" I am not comfortable with in the process of learning – AI coded everything for me. :DDD that's not good.
André J
@busmark_w_nika Coding is more research than coding now days. Just ask perplexity: "I don't know how to code, but i want to make a github end of year profile wrapped website, how should I approach it" and then it will give you some instructions. and then you just write them down. And solve each instruction separately.
André J
@busmark_w_nika And always ask second and third opinions. So I use phind.com and chatgpt as the 2nd and 3rd check. Because gpt is a serial liar deluxe dot com
Nika
@sentry_co phind is so cool, I will try it TY! + first phases will be dedicated to pushing quantity so I can remember some repeating patterns.
Kelly An
Really no need to force to do any coding! Try some GitHub’s mini app repo, and run it locally on your computer and try out cursor, the Ai coding software. You’ll soon grasp the fun of it
Nika
@kellyann3644 I know it could be easier with the AI, but my point is to have the skill so I should practice. 😅
Kelly An
@busmark_w_nika no need to build that skill from scratch. An example I’d make is you don’t need to plant the coffee bean to know what’s good coffee 🤭or wine
Favourite Jome
Curiosity and the feeling of building anything I set my mind to.
Konrad S.
When I started coding in high school, it was simply the fascination of teaching a machine to do something useful / interesting. I think my first real program was a snake-game for a Casio PDA in Basic (the snake could move in curves, not just 90°). After reading stories about robots by Asimov and others, my fascination grew, and I was sure that I wanted to develop AI and robots. I still want to do that of course, but decided to something where I could get useful results faster first. And developing and operating a search engine like App Finder is also quite interesting actually. For me, front-end and back-end are equally interesting, and I'm glad that I can work on both. To get started, I think it's very important that you have a project you really want to do, some app / tool / website you want to implement. Then you systematically learn what you need for it. And then you implement it, learning additional things on the go.
Nika
@konrad_sx You explained it really well. To be honest, I do not know anybody who was inspired by the book in such way. But already picked my own project so at least, I have a motivation.
D. Ferencha
In seventh grade, while working on a challenging coding assignment, I got stuck in a time rift. When I was nearing the end, I expected the clock to read 1 a.m., but the clock read 4 a.m. That was when I first realized that this was something I wanted to do in life. ⏳
louis sankey
Launching soon!
codecademy is great, simple step by step lessons and not too dry. All the free material they have will get you far.
louis sankey
Launching soon!
btw I admire your persistence on PH :). I built a product and now I'm ready to launch, but I have no PH network so I don't think my product will do much. But I'm trying :)