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Tarvel:
This is the 4th time I'll be going through python basics, the last time was during the lock down I couldn't focus cos of WAEC, now I'm done with all SSCE and I don't want this pre-admission period to go to waste


I restarted learning 2 weeks ago with my phone (no system). I've been going through PDFs and video tutorials. I'm kind of familiar with somethings so I choose to ignore them... I tried a python challenge on Solo Learn but it was like I knew nothing


How did you guys learn Python??

What exactly did you learn those 4 times? Like list the things

Did the book you used give you exercises and did you do them?

What can you say "I definitely Know this" and what will you say "I've read this before but can't remember how it works"

Give answers to the above question then maybe we'll find out what you're doing wrong

clarkmos15:
Thanks, what is Android studio about

It literally says "Studio for android"... its an IDE(App for developers) specifically design to help developers build android apps.

To answer the original question
Android: Kotlin
iOS: Swift
Both: Javascript or Dart

Nice... didn't realize nairaland had APIs

KingTayo37:
am trying to make a web site that also has an app and shares the same database which pl do you think i should use,i already started learning phyton and java for the app

Since you're learning python, then Django or Flask or FastAPI
They're all good, google will give you their websites, they have ton of videos on youtube, pick one and happy debugging.

You can also use java for the backend with springboot.

Like i said, there are tons of backend languages and you're learning 2 of them. So which ever you feel comfortable with, simply pick one of their web framework and build your backend with it.

Good luck

KingTayo37:
please can you drop the url of these sites

These frameworks are based on languages and require some intermediate proficiency in the languages.

So which programming language do you know well and what exactly are you trying to do?

KingTayo37:
wow,but where do you get framework isthere like a site where you can download them

Yeah they are all have websites with installation guides and Documentation on how to use them.

KingTayo37:
please can you explain framework

You know how you need travel from one place to another, you don't go building a car from scratch but instead just buy one and all you need is to learn how to drive it?..... That's basically the concept of frameworks.

It contains codes that do specific things for you, you just need to learn how to use it.

So instead of doing a lot of work yourself, you just use a framework the way you want to and get things done way way faster.

Django is a great framework but its not popular in Nigeria.

Learn php or nodejs(express). Thats what people fight about these days.

Any one of them will get your jobs in Nigeria, however popular consensus says php will get you more jobs

If you're a beginner, focus on learning basic programming concepts instead of confusing yourself with backend or frontend. All that wouldn't matter if you can do loops, conditional statement, methods or classes.

To answer your question, backend is code that runs on a server and integrates the frontend with a database amongst many other things the backend does.

For backend languages, there are a ton of them each with a ton of frameworks.
So again learn programming first, all the backend languages are basically the same with a slight difference in syntax.

Also python is one the many backend languages.

Emmyloyalty:
Go is the fastest of all web application backend stacks.

I never said it wasn't. I said Node was fast too, faster than php

@OP

Pick anyone, you can easily switch from one to another when you understand the request-response life cycle, database integration, Security and authentication etc.

tensazangetsu20:
Node isn't faster than PHP. It's just hearsay.

Node is faster. On par or just slower than Go

Only matters for large apps though

Firstly APIs is a general programming, in fact computer science concept.

Imagine a tv and remote, you don't change channels by loosing the board and manipulating transitors, you press the remote and the TV does something.

The remote is the API, it gives you access to get, modify or delete channels in the TV, you don't know how it does this, you just know that the delete button on the remote(API) deletes whichever channel you call
So you interact with the API, and not the server directly.

IN JS(the web in general as web apis can be written in any backend language)
you get a series of links, which might take data.

Calling these links will do something
for example:
website/get-all-books.... would give you all the books in the database(usually in JSON for REST API)
website/delete-book/id=1.... would delete the book with id=1

the mechanism that deletes or fetches the book is hidden within the server serving the apis, you don't know how that works, you just know it does what you want it to do

This is a simplified explanation, do read up more advanced explanations

Unknownartiste:
Hello

I scored 270 in jamb and I'm aspiring for medicine, what do I need in my post utme?

And I stand a chance of getting admitted

Target 300+, that'll put your average at 285+ and probably get you in.
I don't know how well people score now but back in my time, 280 as average was enough.

Good luck!

chrisUmendeche:
Yes they can compete real good. That's a simple project they created. They are moving into more advanced ones. You need to encourage them bro.

As much as they need encouragement, they also need criticism and to learn how to take one.

The website is okay but the color scheme is terrible. I don't expect them to be UI designers but at least they should have followed a UI template.

Looking forward to their next work.

That's a full fledged website for a coding interview, with a crazy deadline too.

A github public host with full source code? that's just sinister

Odiaze:
Sir otokx, good day sir, i have a question, please where does uniport mostly set their questions from for engineering aspirants, and how many subjects will i write in the putme as a chemical engineering aspirant.
THANKS.

Subjects: Same as UTME combination

Area of Concentration: No such thing exist in the university. Read everything

donsharwama:
Good Morning..... i really wanna say a big thank you for your detailed input on how to go about this. i'm very grateful

If you're confused about anything, ask and people will put you through.

We all started somewhere too and we still ask questions

Get started bro, you'll get there in time.

Hammyaladin:
I'm interested in learning programming.. please how can I get the frame work for learning HTML??

where do I download it from?

Mehn you need to learn to google things. As a developer, it will be the most rewarding skill in your stack

Anyway, HTML doesn't need a framework, its a markup language for structuring web pages.
You don't download it. You just write it.

Follow MDN's(Mozilla developer network) web developer series or even freecodecamp to get started.

what most people aren't told about programming is that most of the time you've got only yourself and the problem/bug. Nobody's gonna hold your hands at all. Its a lonely world out there.

Even if someone teaches you the basics, are you gonna ask them to teach you algorithms, data structures, design patterns, architecture patterns and other advanced, more complicated parts of programming?..... Learn to stand on your own from the beginning.

First thing you should learn before learning programming is how to get your hands dirty with information scattered over the internet, find them, and spend time understanding them else how will you read the documentations of all the languages and frameworks you'll be using?.

To learn this, you pick a video from youtube or a book and get right with it, then learn more from iteration, googling, stackoverflow and getting dirty with the documentation.

For HTML, i recommend Mozzila Developer Network(MDN) or W3schools or even sololearn, html is easy!
For Java, its one of the oldest and widely used languages in the world, there are tons of youtube videos, and websites to teach you this.

I'm not quite sure how HTML and JAVA are related and I think you're just throwing languages around. Maybe you should start by learning the different specialties of programming and which languages can be used for them, before even learning any languages.... Again, getting dirty with information.

Good luck mate!

CapedBaldy:
I'm 20 years old and earlier this year I started teaching myself HTML and CSS. I understand how it works and I was really into it but during the lockdown I lost interest and stopped practicing. For some time now, I've been trying to get back into it. I've finished the books I use in learning but I've just lost all my enthusiasm for web design.

Right now, I think I need to learn a real programming language. I'm thinking of learning python. I had an idea for an app I would like to make but I'm not sure whether to just dump web design or finish it before moving on to something else.

What do you think is the best course of action?

Nothing stops you from doing both simultaneously.

If you're lacking interest in HTML and CSS, give it a rest and try other things. In time you can come back to it, they're not even hard to learn.

Also I hope your app idea isn't a mobile app, it would make more sense to learn java/kotlin instead, or go the hybrid route with JavaScript/Dart

Finally as a warning(more like a heads-up), real programming languages are no joke. It would take you weeks to do basic things, and months before you can code your app.

Good luck!

teewhydope:
please do you have a video tutorial that explains how to integrate django into flutter

I don't even have a channel let alone recording devices.

Anyway I checked YouTube and there are some tutorials that you could find helpful.

I only learnt how to create API with DRF and then used the official "Fetch data from internet" tutorial on flutter.dev

Alot of googling and stack overflow for times I ran into problems.

Probably a webGL/HTML5/javascript game framework like phaserjs

Beautiful though and 5 minutes of my time wasted yet enjoyed

OGWILLS123:
please is it paid or free ?

Free

codeigniter:
it more expensive than digital ocean in d long run but AWS free tier is ok for proof of concept or mvp stage apps

so eventually you'll switch host?

TheCarpenter:
If your project is small, go for HEROKU. Personally I haven't tried AWS but the testimonies from people who have doesn't seem positive. You may end up been debited/charged.

As for DO, their lowest charge is 5usd per month.

its small but could grow.

How easy is switching host with an intact postgres database?

TheCarpenter:
NL Bot is mad.

Anyways, as for graphene part of your response, YES.
Its preety easy tho, with some crazy rules....

interesting, someone recommend it once on reddit

Maybe its a better replacement to DRF. I'll definetely check it out

OGWILLS123:
bro please which app is this.

Thanks

Acode

TheCarpenter:
LoL

DRF import giving you issues? Lol...

Maybe you haven't started importing from Differnet Django modules in big projects or probably, you do use phone to code.

Still a learner, but I have used a handful of django modules and hate having to memorize(or look up the docs) to find where AbstractBaseUser or get_object_or_404 is.

Its a pain already and DRF just add to it with its own modules

TheCarpenter:
NL bot just kicked my ass again. Sorry I won't be able to type it here again. But graphene is just easier for me understand

I wonder what answer you typed that annoyed the spam bot, twice.

I might just decide to build my next project with graphene just to get my hands dirty with it.

does it allow you to post data, modify it in the views and save it? If i understand correctly, its just an advanced query pattern

1stSonOfLucifer:
lol, can one be ever grounded with Django? That framework is big walai. Anyways that aside.

Me personally don't even understand DRF. I guess I'm dull ni. But you see graphql? Thanks to it.

Lol at the first line. Truer words have never been said. Django is so big you can use it for a year and still be an amateur.

that aside, I've read the docs of graphene but never saw a reason to ditch DRF for it. Could you explain why you prefer it? DRF needs less code to achieve the same thing and feels more native(like django) than graphene

codeigniter:
use free tier of AWS Ec2 that where I deployed mine africonn

I've been thinking about a good hosting solution for my django server but also considering the cheapest(possibly free) as the app is free(don't even want to include ads as i detest that thing).

could you explain the EC2 free tier. I'm currently looking at the pricing and to be honest, its confusing calculating the amount after the 12 months free period.

Is it cheaper compared to digitalOcean?

I wouldn't want to be switching host mid-way.