I am looking for help to build an app. Someone to teach me or collaborate?
I am a deeply passionate UX Designer, Computer Scientist Grad & DevBootcamp (Cohort 2 - 2012) dropout. Before dropping out, many a speaker there, mainly Roy Bahat, built my confidence and taught me I was able to turn weakness into strength and become a designer instead. Within a year I won a contract at Google, my life was changed.
Rather than contracting a team to design & develop this app, I'd rather do it myself.
To use this as a last chance to prove I can code, that should you not want the role, I will happily take the helm of CTO one day, instead of CEO. I do however feel there are much more technical chaps out there that will do this better than me.One of our cofounders can be the CEO, so long as I stay close to our users, vision, mission, purpose and tech stack!
I am willing to consider paying someone to teach me between now and April. Better to partner with someone who is keen to start pair programming.
We will want to form a team. There are blockchain, social media, AR, AI elements to the APP so varied skills are welcome. I was intending to build this on REACT but open to being told otherwise.
I most sincerely want to change the world, starting with giving people ownership over their identity or their content. If this rouses your interest, please reach out.
For programming specifically you can learn by doing more than reading. Just like Maths you have to have solved a problem or two. So hope the following inspires you and in the case of codeschool's rails for zombies or code academy - it means you can learn by doing.
For some serious inspiration the first ever essay we wrote at Manchester in Year 1 of CS was The Life and Times of Alan Turing. His huge impact still hadn't hit me then. The story of Alan Turing is told in so many different ways that to learn about him is to learn about the type of mind that led us to where we are now. His impact at Bletchley Park breaking the German Enigma code, then at Manchester his work not only seeded AI as we know it but showed how Mathematics could help us understand the code behind nature. These deep roots of CS are what keep you going through the more incomprehensible CS books and difficult challenges.
Looks like I am staying up working a little longer! If only BBC Programs could be streamed on demand I would pay for one daily. There were numerous programs on Turing including an episode from the series The Code - Numbers which was the type of programme that should always be available to the world and makes you wonder why the BBC doesn't unleash it's potential... Another story...
Very well put. I would say the opportunity when self taught is that you can focus on the areas or challenges that excite you the most. "Getting close to the metal with C" is a good example of someone interested in taking things apart and seeing the gears turning the wheel. I studied CS at university specifically to understand how a machine could make chuckie egg jump or dragon ninja kick. You start with Binary, Machine Learning play with some C or Java and suddenly the magic was more than magic - mathematics. Immerse yourself and enjoy it is the most important thing. Back to the point - agreed - programming and computer science can never be mutually exclusive. Everyone's comments on here have me officially addicted to HN. About time.
I am looking for help to build an app. Someone to teach me or collaborate?
I am a deeply passionate UX Designer, Computer Scientist Grad & DevBootcamp (Cohort 2 - 2012) dropout. Before dropping out, many a speaker there, mainly Roy Bahat, built my confidence and taught me I was able to turn weakness into strength and become a designer instead. Within a year I won a contract at Google, my life was changed.
Rather than contracting a team to design & develop this app, I'd rather do it myself.
To use this as a last chance to prove I can code, that should you not want the role, I will happily take the helm of CTO one day, instead of CEO. I do however feel there are much more technical chaps out there that will do this better than me.One of our cofounders can be the CEO, so long as I stay close to our users, vision, mission, purpose and tech stack!
I am willing to consider paying someone to teach me between now and April. Better to partner with someone who is keen to start pair programming.
We will want to form a team. There are blockchain, social media, AR, AI elements to the APP so varied skills are welcome. I was intending to build this on REACT but open to being told otherwise.
I most sincerely want to change the world, starting with giving people ownership over their identity or their content. If this rouses your interest, please reach out.
May the force be with you all. Best, Pavan