Welcome to the Code Newby Podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours. I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about how to build an app from idea to maintenance with Kyle Lee, senior developer advocate at AWS.

You want to release the MVP, the minimum viable product, the most ugly MVP that you can,

and get it out there that's something that's functional, because once you do that, you're

going to feel much more accomplished and you're going to be more motivated to keep pushing forward.

If you have a question for Kyle after listening, don't miss the Ask Me Anything

session he's hosting on the CodeNuby Community Forum.

Just head to community.comunity.org and you'll find his threat on our homepage and he'll

answer you directly in the comments.

That's community.cognuby.org.

In this episode, Kyle talks about having some trouble with JavaScript and then diving into mobile development instead, his advice for learning the basics of mobile app development, and where he draws inspiration after this.

Thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me, Sauron.

So we're really excited to talk to you today about app development.

But first, let's get into your coding background.

How did it all start for you?

It started about six years ago in 2014. and I kind of started off by dabbling in web development. I was jumping around from job to job. Well, second job, I was jumping around,

and my primary job was working at a restaurant. And I wanted to get out of the restaurant because

I really didn't like it there.

So I started looking into web development and I learned HTML CSS.

And then when it got to JavaScript, I couldn't figure out what the keyword this meant.

And I-

That's a big one.

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