The CodeUpStart Mission.
At CodeUpStart, our mission is to help anyone learn to code by building REAL PRODUCTS.
Although I’ve been programming for a while now and had classical Computer Science training, I really struggled to bridge the gap from all the theory I had picked up in school to actually and practically build the products I needed for my previous startup, Rocketrip.
As a product, Rocketrip had four different systems, a gift cards e-Commerce system, a consumer travel site like Kayak, a backend enterprise travel management system and finally an analytics platform.
Although I eventually managed to build all four systems of the MVP myself using Python and the Django Framework, it took a while for me to actually put the pieces together on all the technologies I needed to build it and I remember digging into every resource and mentor I had around me to figure it out.
That was the moment I realized how existing programming resources make it REALLY HARD for people to build real apps. The resources out there for coding are more complicated and use bigger terminology than are necessary. And often what one resource is teaching you about a particular programming language doesn’t get you anywhere because it needs 10 other things to make it really work!
As a result, things get really muddled really quickly and you either have to spend hours and hours figuring it out yourself or just give up.
Having been through the long and hard road, I am absolutely convinced that the skill of coding up real apps can be taught in a much more simple and practical way, and I want to make break down all the complexity to actually make it EASY for others to build real, production-ready apps.
So enter CodeUpStart.
All the creators at CodeUpStart are experienced engineers who spent years breaking down problems at startups and they all know the pain of digging into theory-focused coding resources not tied to real world application at all. We are now looking to take something that can be confusing to a lot of people and make it really simple and practical so you will want to learn it. And with our focus on REAL products, you will find that it’s not as hard to learn to keep up the motivation and gain the confidence to become a creator yourself.
As to our approach, in all our projects we’re going to be taking you through each and every step to recreate real apps like Kickstarter, Tinder and so on, from what a coding editor is to using the terminal application (for mac users) or the command prompt (for windows users) to how to deploy your technology stack (if you don’t know what this means, don’t worry, we’ll explain it too).
So even if you’re not technical or are a beginner programmer, fear not as you will be up and running with launched apps on your hands sooner than you think!
It’s a magical moment when people that we’ve been working with on our projects go “Hey, this is not that hard, I can actually do this!” and it is our goal to create millions of those moments every day.
