When Should I Start Building On My Own
How much should I know before starting a project on my own? How much should I know before learning a particular library? Should I just dive in headlong and fill in required knowledge as I go? At what point can I really say I know X (insert library or framework or language in here) ? Just take a cup of peanut and sit back let us talk about these These are the questions that have been plaguing me in my (short) journey to software developing. There are just so many conflicting opinions out there. There is the opinion of just starting headlong, but there is the danger of creating some gaps in knowledge - not knowing some fundamental principles that guide that field. On the other hand, trying to know the basics before building can lead to the so called tutorial treadmill where you keep hopping from tutorial to tutorial, never feeling ready. Taking myself for example, I’d decided to start writing for more than 6 months before I wrote my first post. I just never felt ready, lik...