Ask HN: Where do I start to learn how to develop?

[ericseidelman]

I have ZERO coding/development skills. ZERO. Never written a line of code in my life.

Have a great idea for a business. But it's the same old story - finding a tech co-founder is damn near impossible.

So if I'm going to learn how to build a MVP myself, where in the hell do I start?

My product would fall into a user interface/user experience type product vs. a super super technical. It's more of a social community built around a game concept.

[dmose]

You need to understand the fundamentals of a web application before diving in. For example, do you understand how a simple form works? How data is transferred from a web browser to a server and back?

I found that the when I was trying to learn the web, I was too obsessed with learning a particular language..rather understanding the basics first, like static html vs server side html, form POST/GET, Css, Js etc.

My suggestion? Write a series of static html pages with css and js. Get a simple page working with a form, then try to submit that form to a server to process.

Once you have a form posting to a server, try generating the entire static html page you wrote on the server side using a simple scripting language (php, asp.net etc)