In my previous attempts I became frustrated by my slow progress, but now I’ve finished Learn Python the Hard Way and I’m reading through The Django Book while working on a prediction market webapp that uses points instead of real money. Not a particularly original or groundbreaking project, but it’s good to actually be making something that might be useful at some point.
An example that it could be useful for could be gaming communities like Minecraft, when it comes to prioritising the implementation of features requested by the users. I’d like to create a reddit-like structure for it, but if it ends up being something I actually launch with user-controlled sub-communities whoever has control over judging the outcome of a bet will have a controversy-causing amount of control.
I’m useless at HTML so I’m either going to have to learn that properly too for the front end or I’ll have to enlist my already overly-busy friend to help with that side of things. Or I’ll just have something really minimalistic copied from online HTML tutorials and whichever free WYSIWYG editors I can find.
On the html side, grab a free template (quite a few sites out there offer nice ones). I find that it’s easier to keep working when my project at least looks decent. Also, at least for me, I feel more comfortable showing it to friends for advice when there’s some superficial polish.
Also, when you see something (a button, control or effect) on a site, open the source. A decent percent of the time you’ll find it’s actually open source already (lots of js frameworks out there) and you can just copy directly. If not, you’ll still learn how it’s done.
I’m trying to learn to program. Again.
In my previous attempts I became frustrated by my slow progress, but now I’ve finished Learn Python the Hard Way and I’m reading through The Django Book while working on a prediction market webapp that uses points instead of real money. Not a particularly original or groundbreaking project, but it’s good to actually be making something that might be useful at some point.
An example that it could be useful for could be gaming communities like Minecraft, when it comes to prioritising the implementation of features requested by the users. I’d like to create a reddit-like structure for it, but if it ends up being something I actually launch with user-controlled sub-communities whoever has control over judging the outcome of a bet will have a controversy-causing amount of control.
I’m useless at HTML so I’m either going to have to learn that properly too for the front end or I’ll have to enlist my already overly-busy friend to help with that side of things. Or I’ll just have something really minimalistic copied from online HTML tutorials and whichever free WYSIWYG editors I can find.
On the html side, grab a free template (quite a few sites out there offer nice ones). I find that it’s easier to keep working when my project at least looks decent. Also, at least for me, I feel more comfortable showing it to friends for advice when there’s some superficial polish.
Also, when you see something (a button, control or effect) on a site, open the source. A decent percent of the time you’ll find it’s actually open source already (lots of js frameworks out there) and you can just copy directly. If not, you’ll still learn how it’s done.
Good luck!