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Would you mind going briefly into what "I learned to code" entailed? Did you identify the languages/technologies you needed to learn at first? How did you go ab
by princess3000 13y ago
Would you mind going briefly into what "I learned to code" entailed? Did you identify the languages/technologies you needed to learn at first? How did you go about learning them, etc.? There's a ton of info about learning languages out there but a lot of it tends to be abstract, I'd be very interested in hearing how you learned within the context of actually launching a product.
- spencerfry 13y agoSure. I wrote a little bit about it here http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program and I'll write more about that on my blog in the near future. We're using Ruby on Rails as our backend code and mainly picked that because that's what most of my friends were good in and I knew that I could go to them with any questions.
- wmat 13y agoGiven the title of this HN post, you should really be linking to your blog post, not the product itself. I clicked around your site a bit searching for your "learning to code" story to no avail.
- onlyup 13y agoI think this is an error on your part, not the OP. The title was set up to show off a product IMO.
- wmat 13y agoI respectfully disagree. A title such as "Show HN: My Employee Rewards Site" would have been more applicable. However, I don't begrudge the OP, as he's certainly gaining lots of useful feedback for his site. I just can't help but feel slightly gamed ;)
- spencerfry 13y agoNot my intention. I'll follow up with more how I learned to program posts. I have some from a few months ago. See http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program for example.
- ruswick 13y agoI agree. Call me crazy, but it just seems intuitive that the title "I learned to code to launch my new startup" should be about, ummm, learning to code. I also think that the blog post would have been much more pertinent to the OP's experiences and conducive to good feedback. Conceivably he chose the title because he wanted feedback on his experiences while learning to code, yet he got feedback about the product in general. If he was looking for advice about the site in general, a Show HN would have been more appropriate.
- onlyup 13y ago"I learned to code to launch my new startup" .. and here it is. That's implicit to me.
- dbrian 13y agoI did the same thing but it doesn't really matter. It's on the frontage which I'm sure was his goal. I'd say mission accomplished.
- princess3000 13y agoAwesome, thank you 8]
- fab101 13y agoGreat work on the look and feel of the portal. Looking forward to read your story on the blog. Not sure why adsense at my place of work blocks your blog for the reason: Not allowed to browse Anonymizer category.