Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to learn more about coding
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@bebetter14 I started out that way. What I did personally, was take a dead module that I really liked and started trying to figure out how it worked. Looked up the commands (Lots of searches for “XYZ Javascript” etc and playing on Jsfiddle.net – -Once I got that figured out, I built up my own module (MMM-Multimonth) and got help from some amazing people on here, including Sam and mmrize - major contribution was from a user who CSSified the whole thing and showed me how to do it.
Knowledge grows as you jump in.
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@sdetweil @BKeyport Thank you both so much. These are great ideas to get started. From what both of you are saying, it sounds like I need to try and come up with an idea for a module and learn from there. Pretty much from the ground up. I really wish I learned more about this growing up. But at least now I have Chat GPT to assist.
Also, thank you providing the links to those helpful modules. These will be great learning resources.
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@bebetter14 Avoid the AI engines. They’re mostly useless, just FYI. Enjoy the process. If you end up with a releasable module, great, if not, hey, it’s a learning experience.
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@BKeyport Thank you for the heads up! I guess I should probably focus on trying to get the modules I have installed now to work before I start trying to make a new one.
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@bebetter14 you can try my MMM-Config module which will present a form for editing config.js
it has some struggles with some modules, but there are ways to work around them
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Just an update. I have been doing the https://www.theodinproject.com/dashboard “classes” and they have been fantastic. Its a great Introduction to how to use Git and Github along with using a terminal. I do all the learning in a virtual machine that runs Linux. It had a great intros to HTML and CSS. I even have my own Github account (https://github.com/inventiveillustrtions) now with my first “project”.
