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A comment on Ask HN: What got you out of coding tutorials and into developing software?.
In my case I wanted to text flight information to the family when one of us was traveling.
We were saving our flights in a google spreadsheet.
I hadn't coded anything beyond tutorials at this point, and had no real understanding of, well, anything.
It took me 6 months to write a script that would take data from the Google Sheet and use a free text api to send an SMS to 6 numbers.
I learned:
- APIs
- cron
- python scripting
- deploying to a server
Mind you, everything I learned, I've now learned a better way for. But at the time it was invaluable for confidence and building interest.
Good luck!
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In my case I wanted to text flight information to the family when one of us was traveling.
We were saving our flights in a google spreadsheet.
I hadn't coded anything beyond tutorials at this point, and had no real understanding of, well, anything.
It took me 6 months to write a script that would take data from the Google Sheet and use a free text api to send an SMS to 6 numbers.
I learned:
- APIs
- cron
- python scripting
- deploying to a server
Mind you, everything I learned, I've now learned a better way for. But at the time it was invaluable for confidence and building interest.
Good luck!