Where to start with wix coding in order to use it well...

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I’m sure this has already been discussed elsewhere on the forum, so I apologize if bringing it up again erks anyone.

But as someone who has merely started to dip their toes in the waters of the coding world… I would LOVE to get some insight into where everyone who now has a fairly good knowledge got to where there are now and tips for a newbie like myself on where to even begin if I want to get a good handle on this.

I can get overwhelmed when wanting to start something new because my mind runs rampant with every avenue I could possibly go down and every aspect that exists of this new challenge and it makes me freeze like a deer in headlights :joy:

So here’s hoping that I can push myself to get over that block by asking for some good old fashioned advice from those who have been there done that.

Thanks in advance!!

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Where to start?

There are surely a lot of possibilities of learning techniques.
I myself started here as a totaly beginner without knowing anything about corvid/velo and all the JavaScript-stuff.

My learning-technique is —> learning by doing.

I just jumped into the cold water and tried to swimm, and now i can say, that i can swimm already. That means, now i am already able to understand a part of JS and it’s commands, functions and all the other things.

My advice ----> Take a daily look ontoo this forum. Read every post, even if you do understand anything. With the time you will recognice more and more the structure of VELO-CODING and all it’s syntax.

You will also need some basics like…

  1. knowledge about functions
  2. knowledge about loops
  3. You should know the differrence of strings/numbers/boolean and other ones
  4. You should be able to define variables and constants (var / let / cons).
  5. And of course you should be able to handle with ASYNC-AWAIT or .then() commands.
  6. You should have some knowledge about ARRAYs —> xxx =
  7. And perhaps even do have some knowledge about OBJECTS.
  8. Another important thing is the usage of DATABASES.

The biggest part of all this information, you will find here… (the VELO-API)…
https://www.wix.com/velo/reference/api-overview/introduction

All i have learned about CORVID/VELO is from this FORUM. —> almost daily training!

After about 6-month you will already be able to write first improved and more complex code, like you do it right now.

You can also use the GOOGLE-SEARCHBAR or the SEARCH of this FORUM, and take a look at already done examples, or switch to private tutorial-sites and example-sites, like…
https://russian-dima.wixsite.com/meinewebsite

…or …
https://www.nasriya.net/to/link?id=zk43MGUGjJPMrb3e

…or…
https://www.wix.com/velo/examples

and so on.

You even can go to GitHub and take a look there.

There are so many possibilities, where you can learn from. :wink:

Just keep trying and never give up. Then one day you will be able to programm dynamic and flexible codes, or even develop apps for VELO, who knows.

By the way, yes there are different type of coding.
-hard codings / fixed coding
-flexible/dynamic coding.

You will surely be able to start with hard codings and after some time you will ugrade it to more flexible type of coding.

Like shown in this example…
https://www.media-junkie.com/pflegeservice

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Hi @lisamthorpe ,
You might find this helpful: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/create-a-professional-website-with-velo-by-wix
It’s a course which was build in collaboration with CodeCademy and it takes you from the ground up.

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Amazing, thank you for laying out each area of knowledge. Super helpful, really appreciate it :slight_smile:

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Ooooh perfect, thank you!!