{"id":1169,"date":"2014-08-14T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:20:50","slug":"podcast-back-to-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/podcast-back-to-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"029 : Novice No Longer goes back to apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ask<\/a>I was still working retail when I truly felt\u00a0what it was like to be\u00a0a novice. I was just starting the second chapter of a book on Objective-C (after two other books and a video course couldn’t help me) and the words were beginning\u00a0to sound like gibberish. I just couldn’t make it any farther in my journey to learn programming.<\/p>\n

Each of these resources\u00a0contained a small disclaimer in the intro: some prior programming experience required. At that point in my life, I had done a little HTML and CSS, and figured that experience was a solid foundation for learning more advanced programming with the right guidance.<\/p>\n

But nothing made sense. And it wasn’t a matter\u00a0Googling terms I didn’t understand\u00a0\u2014 I didn’t even know what I should be Googling or how to determine a helpful answer. Everything I read went over my head, and it was impossible to sort the helpful information from the advanced stuff that I\u00a0really<\/em> wasn’t ready for yet.<\/p>\n

That’s when I discovered Programming in Objective-C<\/em><\/a> by Stephen Kochan. It taught a language I was interested in learning, and didn’t require any prior programming experience. I didn’t need to learn\u00a0C before tackling\u00a0Objective-C. The book simply started from the beginning. It was for novices like me.<\/p>\n

Programming teaches you a new way to think. Yet even after finishing\u00a0that book, I still remembered what it felt like to be in the dark. When I talked to other people interested in learning to code, I saw them in the same place I was years before…and I wanted to help.<\/p>\n

That’s why I launched Novice No Longer, to help people build apps even if they had no prior programming experience. I launched the podcast in order to further this goal. Over time, the podcast drifted away from this vision, and became more a business\/entrepreneur\/lifestyle design podcast. It’s been amazing, and I’ve had some amazing<\/em> guests on the show, but it’s time to get back to the original vision.<\/p>\n

I’m taking a break from the podcast for a short while for the revamp. When we return, we’re going to have some top app developers on the show, like Jeremy from Tapity<\/a> and Dan Councell from Realmac Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is there someone you’d like to see on the show? Let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m also introducing a brand new segment<\/strong> to the show, called Ask a Developer<\/a>. Each week, I’m going to play a question asked by you, the listener, and my guest and I will do our best to provide an answer. It’s a chance to get your biggest questions answered by the masters.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what’s changing:<\/strong><\/p>\n