I am very new to coding.Any apps for beginners?... recommend free apps only plz.As I am a student.. I can't afford much

You'll need to pick some language to start with. That's a preference issue mostly.

When you say "coding", do you mean front end, back end, web, desktop, db management, OS specific?

Not trying to be a dick by asking, but hard to recommend anything without knowing your focus. Many tools are great for their specific use case. Very few are good all around.

That said, especially when you are new to a language, picking a focused IDE over a general code editor may be beneficial. Eg... Grab a free trial of phpstorm, instead of jumping into vscode, sublime, emacs, etc...

Just my $0.02.

Internet?

GitHub

apps? use the internet, learn how to google and find the shit you want to learn and learn it.

Internet search is by far and wide the #1 skill you need to learn. Developers are opinionated neckbeard virgin fucktards, so don't ask them questions, see what they respond to other fucktards.

I answer this from both an Ivory tower as well as a decade and a half(maybe more) of dev experience. Just google shit man, get an education if you can.

@AleCx04 This. People who can't search are so annoying and always stuck.

@lamka02sk 100% with you. This is why I seldom answer technical shit in here or comment on that. A simple search would suffice but no, it is all "sir, plz sir recommend x" <--- like, just google shit man, just look into what you want. That is literally how I fucking started way the fuck back, I googled and got answers.

Google
Udemy
Codeacadamy
Sitepoint

Pick some kind of tool / game / project you want to make, and use the Internet to work out how to do it.

Every major tool has FREE documentation from an official source and every language is free to use - that's worth using.

Here... follow the link in the next post and begin your journey, where ever that may be.

@C0D4
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Lol. When did this become stackoverflow?

Are we just shitting on everyone who asks a question?

Given the millions of shitty, worthless youtube videos out there on "learning to code", perhaps OP is just asking for a trustworthy source.

I get it. I am old also. I had to teach myself. But, my god, do we have to be upset that it isn't as hard now as it was then?

Perhaps we should require everyone learns at least qbasic before they get to post?

@Ratpack309 it does not matter, the same principle is applied for all scientific fields "what did you try first?" is the norm. Walking in here with the idea of "yes sir, I want to develop sir" is just not enough, particularly when in 20-fucking-21 and before since mtrfking 2008 and before all you had to do is open up a browser and "how to create <x software application>" was enough. wanting to program, and coming here and asking how to get started is just minimal, when there are literally millions of resources for all possible fields.

a question asking how to do X in an established field? ok you might get an answer, a question asking how to start with programming? c'mon man, like that shit is not all over the place in the internet

Don't use apps.

We're living in an age where learning is free and you can get resources across the world in an instant (literally the internet exists)

why would you even imply you need an app, let alone trying to avoid paid ones... look around you... I guarantee that not a single good programmer on this website learned from some app....

what we used was google and asking the right questions... (in some instances books, but I never liked that approach myself... again, it can be completely free on the internet)

just sit down and google "how to start with <your_language_of_choice_here>"

and follow the damn tutorial on how to setup the project and run it

Most languages are free and there are usually a few free IDEs per language.

VS Code is the Swiss Army Knife of code editors.

For learning, Udemy has tonnes of free courses

The university of YouTube is pretty good too if you know what you're looking for

W3Schools is pretty good for absolute beginners

I think most of us are speaking from an angle of a developer delving into a new language. But someone completely new to programming has some basic stuff to learn about programming itself. I am talking meta level.. not the language constructs and stuff.

I found that sololearn app in the playstore was a good time kill when i had nothing else to do. It was not that bad and i learnt whatever basics of html, css and js from there.. cant say much about quality, but definitely not useless for starting out.

@AleCx04 Thanks 👍