December 6, 2016 6:37 pm
Published by Mark TregoThere’s no way around it. Programming is one of these things that takes time, effort, dedication and lots of headaches to get good at. There are plenty of ‘gurus’ out there willing to sell you the secret of learning to code in x amount of minutes. But the truth is this; there is no one ‘big’ secret. You can’t cheat, because anyone who’s done it the hard, slow way will spot your inelegant code in seconds. There are, however, several little tricks you can try to kick start your learning, become more efficient with your coding, and pick up the fundamentals easily.
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November 29, 2016 8:57 pm
Published by Mark TregoIt happens all the time. You, or someone you know, has a great idea for an app, website, or a business that will need one or both of the above. This idea is useful, as yet non-existent and will actually make money. But you (or someone you know) has no idea how to make that idea into a reality, because your coding skills are non-existent. Instead you’ll have to spend money on a team of people to do it for you, and be left with little to launch and grow your idea thereafter.
Whether you’re already a successful entrepreneur or merely an average Joe having a lightbulb moment, you will need technical skills to ‘make it’. You don’t have to be an expert programmer and you don’t need to master web design, but you certainly need to understand some basic principles. Even if you don’t want to do it all yourself, you’ll need to be able to talk to the people who do it for you and understand what they say.
So, here are 5 coding-related skills that all successful entrepreneurs should have.
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November 23, 2016 8:01 pm
Published by Mark Trego‘Web developer‘ is one of those jobs that most people don’t actually understand at all. One reason for that is because the term is such a broad one. ‘Web development’ can entail anything from web design or web content development to network security configuration or even client/server-side scripting. Confused yet? Basically, web developers are the people who build websites, in every sense of the word. But the job can be loosely broken down into two categories; front end web developers and back end web developers. What’s the difference? We’ll tell you. But first…
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