Software Developer (in training)

Germaine

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May 19, 2016
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Good day all

I recently signed up for a software developer course and I decided to do it inline because I can't do it full time due to the fact that I am the sole provider at home.
I decided to do software development because I often get great ideas for apps but can't code even though I have been learning on sites like codecademy and codeschool but they just teach the basics and I needed to learn more then just basics and I started learning code by starting off with html,css and javascript basics.
The hard thing about this was I don't have internet at home and could only do it thru a free internet app that give an hour a day very slow speeds of 9kb per second which is extremely slow because I could only do a few lessons a day , it helped in a way because I now have a good understanding of how to make simple webpages and make them look nice but that can't help me with what I really want and that is why I signed up for software development.
I do not know how long this will take because I go over the lessons a few times to make sure I understand but somehow my marks reach 90% and 80%+ which is not good enough for me , well I cant expect to concentrate full time on it as I need to do my job 1st and go online only during spare time or breaks, though I would love to visit an actual developer on weekends ( I don't work weekends and I'm mostly home) who would help me and coach me by helping me develop actual working applications on all devices and OS's like maybe build an app on one platform and then teach me to make it work on all these platforms that would mean so much to me and I would be forever grateful and in that persons Debt I may have to repay by including that person in my Ideas if they interested.
I will be updating or posting new progress in this Journey once a week or twice a Month to interested parties thinking about doing the same thing and I will also leave research site references if needed.

Thank you for taking the time to read this I hope I find a willing good soul willing to share a skill with me.

keep well and Happy coding
 

Faziki

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Ok so, a friend and I was asked to make an app for IOS and Android we only knew the basics. Now we taking on project that is a bit above our fireplace, but hey! if you dont push yourself you wont get where you want to be.

dont just sit back and think that you cant do it. google project on github try to make them and run them on your phone, play around see what you like write down the things you think that you will forget. draw the ideas on paper and the layout of the code where to start and where to end and puzzle it together.

no one is a born coder with knowledge of everything and good at it. everything is a learning curve !

if you want to learn like a boss and not pay our ass off for studies. go to a internet cafe or a friends house that has internet and as him if you can download this guys videos. like they say in his comments he has a black belt in programjitsu. he covers everything you ever dream of.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston


if you feel like you know the stuff you can go to any institute that offers the course and only pay for the exam, write the exam, there is your papers.


Regards,
Faz
 
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gkm

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Also, do not limit yourself to the internet. Books are in my opinion often a better way to learn something, since a book takes more trouble to have a flow that makes sense.
 

flippakitten

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Grab yourself an Oracle VirtualMachine and a copy of uBuntu and install that at home.

You won't need access to the internet at home and it will help you learn backend type stuff, which you will need depending on your app.
 

rward

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Go here and grab documentation that can be read and searched offline: http://devdocs.io/


Figure out which language you want to learn more about and read what the different functions do.

Along with a dosbox/virtual machine you should be able to start pushing out sccripts or sites soon.

Read read read read read
 
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