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Hello everyone, I just enrolled into Laracast, as I have a SaaS idea in mind I want to build and generally always wanted to learn development. There has been so much confusion on where to start, what languages, paid or not paid etc.
From y research PHP and Laravel just seem like a great overall language to build apps, possibly work as a freelancer and of course use these skill to land a php job. I am in my thirties with no technical background so this would be a complete change for me.
Is just following the beginner path the best place to start? Any advice from the community?
@gluning Going through the Bootcamp (https://bootcamp.laravel.com) may be a good starting point, as it will walk you through building a “real” application from start to finish, so you’ll get familiar with the process and the components you’d need to build an actual real world application.
@martinbean Thank you!
One question though, wouldnt this path require me to understand PHP and stuff beforehand?
@gluning The more you know the language PHP, the more effective and productive you will be with a framework written in PHP like Laravel.
It’s not a hard prerequisite (just like you get WordPress developers who have a poor understanding of PHP), but it will help enormously. Especially when you get things like syntax errors.
My suggestion is start with HTML, write a code to print "hello world". File=hello.html Next, go to MySQL, create a table with name test and fields id and description, test (id,description) (1,myFirstDescription) Next, go to PHP, create a code that connect to MySQL and get contents from test and print in hello.html. If you know all this, use Google and ask "what is Tailwinds?" and "what is a class?". If you understand, you may try Laravel.
Thank you @frankhosaka! I did actually build a recipe website using html through Odin Project. But it sounds like I maybe shouldnt have done the yearly plan and first started with some basics on html, css, maybe even some js before diving in here.
You could start here https://onramp.dev/en
@Snapey Appreciate the link. From here I see a lot of free resources on the basics of html, css, js, php before diving ito laracast.
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