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Python and Java

You sound like you have a brilliant idea up your sleeves. If so you should probably look for a technical co-founder. Now to correct some few things
1) "App developer" is the wrong description for the job. Your idea is basically going to be an app front-end communicating with a web-service (preferably restful web-services) backend and then interacts with a db preferably a combination of PostgreSql and ArangoDb(No-Sql DB) which will be preferably hosted on a cloud platform such as Heroku(my favourite ).

2) Please never try to hire a software engineer if you are not one yourself

and Oh if you are interested in having a technical co-founder try to get referals from your friends or you could PM me.

My biggest advise is not to try and hire one by yourself if you are not a software architect or at least a software engineer. You should probably find out from your friends that have apps who did it for them. Or you could contact me

Badyear:
Yes!, Thank you for a very good advice but why the hmmmm if i may ask

Because this is a fresh upcoming niche in software development as related to Nigeria and you could bet that you will surely enjoy yourself and of course make enough money to live nicely. #WelcomeToTheSoftwareWorld.
By the way you can also check out Machine Learning (just recently got into it and i'm loving it). All the best

It depends on how good you are:

if you are very good with php then you can easily do the Job using the laravel framework(Very awesome framework)

else if you are very good with C# then the choice stack would be Asp.net Web Api and angular js with SqlServer database

you can easily upload those video and images files to a folder on the server and then store the relative path in the database

you can pm me if you need more advice

This is going to be a very big war. I'm already enjoying it "C# vs Python"

Preboy:
Haba bro... you wanna bring the legendary UE4 vs Unity war to nairaland?

Anyway, I can simply end this here by saying;
I didn't quite shoot down unity, hence why i used the word "better". Unity 5 is quite good too

Buh then let's be honest, Unreal is crazy when it comes to graphics. I know it's not the best(cry engine, rage, source, konami's fox and some others are better) buh in the world of indie developers, Unreal rules Graphics. I do follow unrealdevs on Twitter and Facebook and trust me unity Dev do not compare.

Also Unity is way popular that unreal, how come unity 5 with all its new graphical abilities can't attract AAA designers?

Time will tell

C# all the way

@Op are an A.I computer scientist

I don't advise going to any school. What i do advice is buying internet access, a laptop and studing yourself. There are lot's of resources online, you can start from FreeCodeCamp.com and W3Schools. I think that's all you need. Welcome to the Developers world

Edit: (Sorry i was not looking while typing and auto complete was on) It wouldn't be a bad thing to learn programming but if this is a new startup then it would make more sense to get a technical co-founder who shares your vision.

If you are not a beginner to software development then you can learn both simultaneously else i do believe you should learn c# first. At least with c#.net you can build highly scalable web-apps using Asp.net Web Api then you can also build cross-platform apps using xamarine and desktop apps using the WPF and Universal framework.

That's very immature and He isn't that good with javascript

I think everything lies in this question "What does sachng offer or is going to offer that is better than google or is as good as google?".

FINgames:
where do you school?
which school?

I almost completing the NIIT 3 yr software engineering course and about going for my 1 yr top-up for Bsc. Though I'm mostly self-taught.

FINgames:
please what school offers software engineering as a course in Nigeria.

None that i know of. I am not schooling in a Nigerian University.

arduino:
Anyone needs my help?

Yes, do you know of any store in lagos where i can get all arduino equipments

Does Nairaland have a public api

anthropino:
Straight away.

DONT LEARN ALL LANGUAGES. LEARN ALGORITHM.

Learn to implement algorithm in the language of your choice. You can learn the prog languages in the world but if you dont learn algorithm design you have learnt nothing.

To put it in Language of Leisersson " if you want to be good programmer learn programming lang for ten years or learn algorithm for 2 years"

Which one would you choose. By the way Leiserson is Author of the book "Introduction to Algorithm" which is a classic,

Though I recommend Algorithm design by Tardos as a favorite

This is exactly the point. The key is learning algorithms and my bro since you know python just focus on learning algorithms and implementing it in python and moreover you can also give erlang or haskell a try but algorithm is the key

yunglary:
I am 15 years in Babcock University(200L) and am verrry good in Java, Android, C# and i know d basics of many other languages. And i have friends who are also like me because we practice together. So do you mean we cannot participate because we are underage(Though my friends are above 18)
This is how everyone behaves in Nigeria, even before i was allowed to stay in Babcock i went through crises from the officials threatening to send me home. This is how Nigeria looses talent. When i was in ss1 i was not allowed to go to Nta science competition because of the same age reason. i watched a video of a 12 year old boy, an IOS developer who was at Ted Midwest exhibition , i know that one day , after my University i would travel abroad and when i start shining there, this same people that add age restrictions to stuffs would come out and say US keeps capturing our talents, that is why we have alot of Nigerian Doctors and Surgeon abroad.

I Feel your pain brother, I'm also about 16 years old software engineering student in 300L and tired of the naija mentality of age restriction

DanielTheGeek:
Thanks VenantCode, you could join me tho.

sure but i am still trying to be a guru like you

goomatyila:
100% HR Recruiters awareness of Computer Science.
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70% of the people asked what is computer programming have no clue what it is,
they assume its someone who can fix harddrives better than technicians.

20% of the people think they are IT guys who do networks and engineering.

5% Actually know they people who write computer software(make copies).

3% People who have an idea that they are but not sure whos the right one for the job.

2% Is recruiters who are programming hiring programmers.

People don't know anyone who masters JavaScript can create their own libraries like angular, react, etc... but they will ask for someone who knows angular.

Like programmers who understand multiparadigms. they hadly get the jobs because recruiters don't know everything.

that's why we prefer freelancing

Thanks alot man we really need people like you in Nigeria

badthinds:
I suggest you learn Java, XML and Sqlite

I do agree with Him but just wanted to add that you should be patient and really study it deeply. It will help you alot

Though i'm still a student in this area. I belive that Hadoop is the future of high scale RDBMS

Vt-x can be enabled from the system configuration tab of your system bios. On most system it doesn't come enabled by default

I'm one

DanielTheGeek:
Opera Mini on mobile phones is f**king retarded, do not use it to test your projects..i repeat do not use it for testing purposes.

It doesn't have good support for JavaScipt.

I do agree, even uc browser has better javascript support

Must it be phalcon php

Why is your website suspended

Yeah, but that is kinda old already. With the notion of websockets you don't need to continously poll the server unecessarily.