This blog includes a series of videos and references to help new users or enthusiasts better understand how to use open source and free technology tools. The quick links includes more information for accessing many of the tools covered along with other references to learn more for taking advantage of these tools.
This is a follow up video with some more progress on the site, and some real time development demonstrating how to solve HTML errors, and creating new pages.
Key updates in this video and in the sample code:
- Try to update the nl2br then back to br2nl in real time - Get the image folder working to upload images to the site - Product view page - Create a product details page
All of the sample code is in the below repository:
This is a post to begin a series that will strive to focus on how to create and think through how to build usable code without having to rely on AI.
Having played with and attempted to learn with varying degrees of success how to code in a few languages, I decided that building a website which I had as an idea for a while, might be helpful to others.
The Goal is not only to attempt to create a useful project - I think there are lots of much more advanced projects out there, but this will focus on simplicity - but also detail the step-by-step process that goes into a dynamic website development.
Using the 'Coding withOUT AI' title is probably a bit of a buzz word or click bait, but I also feel somewhat strongly that it is really important. Much of what artificial intelligence (already a weird thing for the world to get hyped about - what other industry promotes how artificial their stuff is?) - can do particularly around coding is at a relatively junior level. However, that is a problem, because senior developers will eventually need junior developers to replace them overtime. The juniors need to go through the process to become seniors. If AI is hand-holding all the time in an effort to gain "speed" or "efficiency" then what ends up missed? That is an important and potentially unknown point!
I alone won't fight off the AI revolution - it will take its course as all new technologies do - and really that isn't my goal. What I am hoping is to be another drop in the ocean-wide discussion that there are other ways to learn how to code, how to host web services, and how to logically think through and apply documentation to specific problems.
The VERY MUCH WORK IN PROGRESS code is at the below repo:
