Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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i hate everything in the app store so much. 96% of it just caters to stupid people. this is why people hate capitalism.
coding is such an infinite well of possibilities. and what do we find... 25000 knock-off microtransaction idle farming games. industry hyperspecific apps that charge monthly just for the right to use them.
I waste so much time looking for software solutions... i gotta learn to code. to save this godforsaken industry from crumbling.
maybe things will get better when the deep-state is dethroned. googles algorithms hide the best apps underneath all the garbage.
anyways. i imagine there are a few coders here. any thoughts on what entering the field in 2024 is like?
Coding farms and AI make coding a job not worth the time. Crunch is real and you will work harder than any retail employee and make less than a lot of them
Now if you are doing it for free and fun? Yeah, this is the time. Ai can help clean your newbie code. Whether it is gaming or productivity apps, there are so many libraries and engines with tons of already prewritten runtimes that if you learn to code, you can do more than one person really should
It is also easier to learn. When I tried it, literally had to go basic > c > C+ Teachers would still cover a lot of "basic" coding but a year later all you could do was function calls. The online portals for learning like udemy are infinitely better than any 90s/2000s college class
But I am a philosophical/logical autist, not a math autist , so I really could not stand the inherent clunk of C. I took up Javascript and flash/shockwave but those are pretty useless now. Old languages like perl or python still have a niche where some old company too lazy to switch their platforms will pay you $$$$ cause you are 1 of 100000000 who still know the languages
You also mentioned apps. Android and Apple sdks are even easier to learn. Start out making a flappy bird clone or something like a flashlight toggle, take online courses, watch youtube videos, etc. I have seen people with zero coding background make pretty high level stuff like third party streamers and IR controls, etc with enough diligence
So, say I've got a killer app, and verified it's not already out there. No coding experience since managing relational databases with SQL back in 2000, and decent GUI background from then. Should I just head to udemy to learn app-making? Or would you start somewhere else?
On udemy you want two things
Never pay full price because there are always sales
And two, you want to focus on the zero to mastery courses
I would also look at this for general education
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science
Thanks!