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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: August 10, 2015, 08:46:27 pm »In your experience with coding, can you make good apps if you have nextvto none experience with coding?
nah.. takes quite a bit of experience. getting all of the ideas out of your head into a useable product takes decent skill. writing stable/maintainable/scalable production software. it's basically an engineering discipline. however, you don't need as much experience to prototype something.
pc!
Can you recommend me how to get started on a prototype?
to prototype without actually coding, there's stuff like Axure: http://www.axure.com
to create actual web-app prototypes, you'd need to pick a programming language to learn.. imho, one of the best ways for a beginner to get into programming is to learn javascript. I'm not a fan of it, but, it makes alot of sense considering you can use it for frontend (browser) and backend (node.js) programming. Plus, there's TONS of examples/templates/skeletons you can learn from to get up and running very quick. There's tons of good introductory books out there on js.
most "code schools" teach ruby for the backend, and javascript/html/css for the frontend.
pC

