Derek Wood
@sheriffderek
@sheriffderek , Director @ Perpetual Education
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a friend who already knows how to do it who will help you at each step
This would certainly be my ideal! (for pretty much everything) and it's surprising how rare it is that someone suggests it.
Based on this, I'm surprised your suggestion isn't to start out by diagraming out the product. I feel like if you had one day, that might have more value than the time spent in a gamified sandbox.
Sounds like it's going pretty well for you. What do you plan to build afterward?
I have several apps in mind - I'm writing a guide on UK tender responses, and will build a larger app around that subject once the guide is done, with a bunch of smaller apps to directly support the guide (freebies to drive interest, essentially). We'll see how it goes; I'm not expecting magic, but it's a good exercise to learn code with a specific goal in mind.
When you're done with the Udemy course, it could be fun to have a chat about it. If you ever want a code review or something - let me know. : )
I just asked my lawyer to send it to me. They had some go-to boilerplate that they adjusted just a little.
I don't think I would have agreed with starting out in Figma a few years ago, but I'm using it more and more to explain things now that it has autolayout and variables. I kinda show a little Figma, show a little HTML, a little Figma, a little HTML and it works great.