Getting started writing code can be a challenge at best, and a nightmare at worse. Yes, there are hundreds of different tutorials online about how to build a rest service, web app, mobile app, or even trail an AI model, but more often than not, there isn’t anything on taking that first step.
What tools do you need to write code? How do you configure a lap top for development? What is an IDE? Do you really need a mac? These questions typically go unanswered as most don’t know to ask them.
Well, that ends today. Not only am I asking them, I answering them too.
Software
Set Up: What you need to write code.
Setting up a dev machine can be one of the more annoying things you ever have to do, especially if you use multiple languages, and multiple versions of a language. Thankfully for us, we now have tools that allow us to separate technologies by directory and project, which makes keeping things clean and organized much easier.
Languages: The right tool for the job.
As all things in life, there is always the right tool for the job. Technology is really no different. In the current market today we can more or less divide tech roles into four main groups; Backend, frontend, mobile, and AI/Data. Now before anyone grabs their pitchforks, yes there are more roles than that, but these four main categories will give us a base to where we can start talking about languages, stacks, and what role includes what tech.
