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I need some advice about where should i start?

Hi i’m a 16 years old Just getting started and i want help from you all about how should i start. Like for example should i learn SEO and freelance online? Or learn to code? I don’t really know where should i start. And i want to be a digital nomad like you all

Thanks.

on November 5, 2019
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    Hi! I'm 17, tho I started a little bit earlier than you. My personal advice wouls be to learn coding first. I'd also recommend starting with open-source projects, as it makes it easier for others to point out mistakes in your code and help you improve. Once you've got a bit of experience, try building and launching a real application. You will probably not build the next Google (my first app never sold anything btw) but you'll learn a lot about the business & human side of building things. Try again, maybe you'll fail maybe you'll win, but each time you'll have more chances of making it until one day you'll do. I started coding when I was 10 and only this year have I started building stuff people care about (especially with my latest product, Sitesauce, where I'm finally getting some real traction, but that's because I've applied everything I've learned before when building other projects that weren't as successful). Good luck mate! 😁

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    I'm a proponent of real-world experience over courses.

    I recommend starting with a problem to solve or a project you want to make and then learning everything necessary to complete it. Whether that's code or anything else. And whether you ultimately ship it or not.

    If you don't have ideas, then freelancing is a great way to force yourself to learn things and solve problems. (As long as you take jobs that you don't know how to do.)

    I'm a bit older than you... 35... but I started my first company at 19. I learned everything I know about coding by Googling, at the exact time I needed to do each thing. Today, I'm a skilled developer, but I purposely do as much as I can with no-code tools. So you never know with specific skills... for me, learning code was correct, and it's helped me immensely in my career, but I don't know if it'd be the correct thing today or not.

    The most helpful things I've learned are the universal "business" concepts that sometimes come from code, sometimes from talking with customers, sometimes from dealing with legal/admin stuff, etc.

    The only way to learn those things is to build real things! Good luck!

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    Have you tried learning to code? How did that go?

    What do you want to build?

    Is there anything you wish was out there that you can't find?

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    If I were in your shoes:

    I would learn to use figma / learn to design.
    I would learn to code
    I would learn to market/sell

    If you don't like any of them, try to work through it. If it's really hard / really doesn't stick, find someone to partner with. I do all 3. It's very useful to know a bit of everything, and to be really good at some things.

    The best way to do this is through starting a project and seeing it through to the end, IMO.

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      +1 for Codecademy, that's hoe I got started with PHP (through I think that's a paid course now unfortunately).