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by jaypreneur 5354 days ago
When you say "learn some coding yourself" exactly how much does this entail?

For instance, I know HTML and CSS. I am slowly learning Javascript. I am fairly confident I could learn to code the front-end in a reasonable amount of time.

Is that "learning some code yourself" or do I need to know more?

If I need to know back-end (or should), how extensive? I only ask because while I'd love to really know how to code.... I know it'd take far too long to become truly proficient. So, I'm just trying to portion my time out effectively because I can spend my time on my business in a lot of other ways as well. I don't want to spin my wheels learning to code when I'll never truly be the technical guy who you go to for code (I just don't have years to learn). I just want to learn enough to be respected and know what's going on.

If anyone could give me a good resource to attain that level of knowledge, that'd be great. There just seems to be so much I could learn and if I go the wrong direction, it could be (somewhat) a waste of time and I want to avoid that.

Thanks again for the reply.