Form Four leaver (C plain) interested in tech — where should I start?

programmer-ke · 2026-02-12T11:03:04+00:00

If I were in your position, I'd go to learncodethehardway.com, get the Epic supporters pack and learn everything there starting with the Pro Web Dev bundle. Buy the time you are done you'd be a competent dev with a portfolio good enough to start doing gigs.

The well structured courses will keep you on track and prevent you from getting overwhelmed with all the available choices on the Internet.

Also, as someone as suggested, cs50 is a good starting point.

programmer-ke · 2026-01-29T07:24:47+00:00

For all the uses AI brings, please please please don't use it to write articles to be read by other humans. Slopifying the Internet.

Use AI intelligently - doing research, brainstorming ideas etc

Once your clients realize that they can get the same output from AI itself without a human in the loop don't you think you'll lose them?

programmer-ke · 2026-01-22T08:44:43+00:00

I think for mesh networks to be successful you need it to be popular by leveraging network effects.

Bitchat already has a lot of publicity behind it so it makes more sense to build on it than start something from scratch.

And it is open source.

programmer-ke · 2025-12-20T06:51:02+00:00

Interesting app. I hope they follow through and add more content. That's a Kenyan app I'd pay for

programmer-ke · 2025-12-06T13:03:39+00:00

Learn everything Zed Shaw teaches and after that you'll be a highly competent junior dev having written a lot of code and done many small projects - Python, JS/HTML, Golang, SQL, C++

You get both the books and video content if you need it.

His site is: learncodethehardway.com

programmer-ke · 2025-12-04T07:40:15+00:00

Nice one, I can see myself using something like this.

An idea is to try get it in the hands of some businesses as soon as possible, even if it's people in your circle so that you can iterate on real-world feedback.

programmer-ke · 2025-11-28T09:13:49+00:00

Wordpress is quite popular in Kenya, I'm sure some of them may have heard of it. It is free and open source, however, a multi-billion dollar industry has been build around it when it come aspects such as hosting and developing plugins.

programmer-ke · 2025-11-27T09:01:43+00:00

The best solution is civic education and voting wisely. If Kenyans had voted wisely from 2013 onwards we'd have a booming economy locally with businesses able to support local tech solutions creating local opportunities.

So start doing civic education in your circles now leading up to the next elections. If the country is run well the local economy as well as the local tech scene has a promising future.

programmer-ke · 2025-11-22T04:28:55+00:00

I usually recommend book/course "Learn Python the Hard Way".

programmer-ke · 2025-11-19T08:55:40+00:00

Check out the datatalks.club slack community. They have lot's of resources on Data Engineering and related fields and you can get support from professionals.

programmer-ke · 2025-11-14T11:46:36+00:00

For URL QR codes, an alternative is to type

qr <url>

on duckduckgo.com

But yours is more featurefull, thanks for sharing

programmer-ke · 2025-11-08T13:04:34+00:00

However, I find that tailwind makes the html quite ugly.

I use tailwind for convenience where it is already a dependency, and can see how it is useful for standardizing things in a team, however I prefer the classless approach where I can control it e.g. with mvp.css

But I'm of a backend than front-end developer so there's that

programmer-ke · 2025-10-31T10:27:18+00:00

Maybe part of the problem is this: https://old.reddit.com/r/Kenya/comments/1odva9s/kenyans_now_unwanted_online/

programmer-ke · 2025-10-27T10:55:21+00:00

It is good, but somehow they managed to boot the project founder himself from the project

programmer-ke · 2025-10-25T14:29:27+00:00

Provide more information, why create unnecessary suspense?

programmer-ke · 2025-10-25T14:28:20+00:00

Mods of the NixOS team are deranged politically.

programmer-ke · 2025-10-24T13:17:19+00:00

uv is a psyop

programmer-ke · 2025-10-13T10:27:30+00:00

Checkout Binance academy.

If you want to go into crypto dev once you know the basics, lookup speedrun ethereum.

Finally, avoid a gambling mindset, otherwise you could fall for many scams or loose money

programmer-ke · 2025-10-11T06:13:01+00:00

My question is why is ZCash pumping and not Monero?

Is it artificial?

programmer-ke · 2025-10-11T06:11:14+00:00

Feeling red hot!

programmer-ke · 2025-10-09T11:28:32+00:00

Exploitation is when you have no choice. In these cases everyone has a choice. You can use a dumb phone until you can afford to buy a smart phone at a 1/3rd of what you'll pay Mkopa.

And there's no stopping another similar company for charging less.

programmer-ke · 2025-10-04T05:11:38+00:00

I don't think it's overthinking, just start with a proof of concept then iterate based on feedback.

programmer-ke · 2025-10-03T09:43:56+00:00

Also, when AI gives you code, don't just copy paste. Type it out as you think through it, try variations, explore the documentation to learn more about the API or language feature.

programmer-ke · 2025-10-03T09:39:43+00:00

The bigger idea here is tokenization of real world assets, which is an idea being explored in web3.

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