I would love to know programming, but dont know where to start either. My focus is build android apps. Would like to learn programming to build apps for all world, but dont know how to do it and where to start. And i dont want make money with this, i just want to do this just for fun. Any advice? which language is better for a person who dont know nothing? which programs i need to install to start? Any book or tutorial recommendation ? im lost lol. thx

  • NotNotMike
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    21 days ago

    Somewhat unorthodox opinion, but it doesn’t matter what you choose if you’re in this for the long haul. Just pick a course, site, language, etc that motivates you. The best course in the world won’t teach you a thing if you quit after a few days. So use a site you find pretty or funny and use a language that will be useful to you.

    I personally learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript from W3 Schools, and just built a site using what I was learning. The site doesn’t really handhold you, it shows you features, more like a reference guide, and I just built some nonsense with it.

    And while I didn’t learn a ton from it, it taught me enough to get started and over the last decade or so I’ve just continued to learn from whatever resources I stumble across, gradually building knowledge over time. I rarely use the same educational resource twice, and now that I’m experienced I often just reference documentation directly and am very rarely doing tutorials.

    For Android it looks like Android has a course you can take or you could try any number of sites like Udemy, Coursera, Edx and search for “kotlin”, a modern mobile app language that’s pretty popular.