Hello No-Code friends,
I originally posted this one in the ideas and Validation group but thought it would be perfect for no coders who may have a 2020 goal to learn to solve problems with Python.
I've been developing in Python over the last couple of years and absolutely love it! All things from web scraping with Requests and BeautifulSoup to data analytics in Pandas and Numpy and a bit of API development in Flask.
I love to learn and share knowledge and have set myself a big hairy audacious goal in 2020 to reach 1,000 YouTube subscribers (currently 50 odd).
There are tonnes of Python tutorials already on YouTube so I thought I would take a different approach and kick things off by addressing specific questions, challenges etc from beginners. Maybe you have a 2020 goal to learn Python?
I have created a couple of videos that are very tongue in cheek for a friend Scott who is learning Python - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq1YsG1H2jMXq_YJrM0cqC_odD0NMRwR0 but would like to take things a little more seriously and get disciplined with uploading content on a regular basis.
Let me know your thoughts!.. and if you are interested, don't' be surprised if your comment ends up in a YouTube video!
You might be preaching to the wrong choir.
Many no-code users are doing it not because they can't learn programming, but because there are inherent advantages for using no-code (No deployment is the first that comes to mind).
I'm a developer with >10y of experience yet whenever it makes sense I avoid coding.
Very curious about other people's perspectives.
With that said, you might have a niche within no-code of people who can't program, yet need to complement no-code tools with some basic script (one off page scraping, maybe?). But in that case you probably need to dig to find where is no-code best complemented with lightweight code.
Best of luck!
Hey, super good point! I also wonder the split, Indie Hackers should add polling.
I agree, there's going to be some crossover between both camps for a while. What ratio of code / no-code is the magic mix for cost, time, upkeep?
Right now I'm using a no-code frontend from webflow and smashing it together with a django backend. Goal is to have more functionality and granularity with django modules while not getting too hung up with the design elements.
I'm a new dev so things like DB, packaging, and deployment are really tough. Also, I find that I can follow along with a tutorial but there comes a point when you need to diverge from the tutorial pathway (in order to create something new) and my mental models of how more robust software should be designed just don't exist.