learning code

Joey Rigor Kontak Mobile Apps February 26, 2016

with an idea

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Learning code is actually not that hard.

Specially if you are learning it by building an app of what

you really like to code.

This post will show

how learning code can be fun.

Not intimidating as some people think it is.

This post will show

how we can turn your passion, your idea into

something that will help other people.

First, a little secret.

Creating apps does not start by coding.

It starts when

you have an idea that other people will find useful.

That will make their lives easier.

How do we do this?

Think about your passion.

What you're good at.

How your idea can help other people in their personal life

or in their work.

And then think about

how people will interact with your idea.

And will have fun using it.

Draw it

in a blank piece of paper.

Think how parts of your idea can be connected into one

system.

By designing it,

you can dwell into the details how your idea will work.

How your interface will look like, the step-by-step

processing involved and of course, the output. The

solution.

Coding

or putting that idea and its design to a working app, is

only the third step.

But it will be much easier

since you already designed

what you are going to program.

As an experienced coder,

more than half of my time

building a program is thinking about how to design and how

to build it.

Most development frameworks

even has prototyping tools to

make designing your apps easier.

Where you don’t even have to code

to create a working prototype

of the app you wanted to build.

You just drag and drop

the elements comprising your

interface based from the drawing you did a while ago.

You know how apps work.

These tools is a little bit more

harder to learn.

But with your experience using apps in your smartphone, I

think you can hack it.

Now that you’ve designed

the app you’ll going to build, the next step is learning to

code it.

Come on. It’s coding

we’re talking about here.

Rome wasn’t build in a day.

AboutMeAs a software developer, I have always been interested in learning new things regarding technology. In how I can share what I’ve learned specially to others with professions outside my field. 

This interest became a passion as I see a lot of people using technology in their daily lives but have no idea how it works. Much less how it was build. Sadly, almost all of us are mere consumers.

My previous blogs and those to follow will try to convince everybody, in my own small way, to learn how to code. How to become creators of technology.

Don’t worry, grasshopper. Future posts will continue

where we ended here.

But with more details.

Don’t worry, grasshopper.

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