Learning to code?

[Dimi]

Hi there,

Quite interested in doing this in my free time, I've come across SoloLearn and their apps in the Google playstore.

They have quite a few options, not sure where to start? For someone who uses Android & Windows on a daily basis what's my best option?

 

[Dimi]

ok, great that you want to learn to code but no one can really advise you one way or another until you can answer a few questions:

What platforms do you want to program for?
What type of things do you want to write?
How much time are you willing to invest?
Do you have any programming knowledge already?

Hey, thanks for the reply.

I'm starting from absolute zero, I want to do something with mobile apps. Be it on Apple's or Google's platform.

I know with Apple I'm looking at Swift and Google Java. Which of the two or any other would I be better of starting with?

 

[Dimi]

You could go that route, or a more cross-platform app route? There's solutions to target both at the same time, even through javascript and html (both useful skills in themselves even without the app aspect).

If you do want to go Swift and iOs native, I am assuming you own a mac?

If you want to go native for both, there's a few great courses I can recommend from Udemy .

https://www.udemy.com/user/robpercival/
https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-android-developer-course/
https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-ios-9-developer-course/

His lessons seem highly rated.