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Find a local SCORE small business chapter, a local ToastMasters International, and see if there is a real estate investment club in your area (my REI uses Meetup.com, also hit up BiggerPockets.com).

Read these books: - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason - The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle - The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

Cut your "fat" or excess costs (especially the big 3- housing, cars, food), live frugally, save everything you can, invest it starting while you're young, and you'll do well.

>What makes me nervous about looking stuff up online, is that anyone can post anything, and I am skeptical of a lot of the information I see (I know, I know, I’m online right now).

You don't have to trust a single random person. Watch a couple videos and read a few posts from different sources to help solidify your understanding and hopefully alleviate some of that skepticism. A lot of 401k providers and brokerage companies will have information about savings, investing, etc as well. So that could be a resource you might be more comfortable starting with. For example, I have accounts at Charles Schwab and they have a knowledge center to help people learn. You can start somewhere like that and supplement it with blogs or YouTube videos on the subjects.

>I did start playing soccer and volleyball, I’m just awkward and always scared I’m bothering people.

Those sound like great hobbies to have! I am also awkward but being around the same people again and again helps me build the courage to talk to them more. I wouldn't try to think of it like you're bothering them. Ideally you would be looking to build relationships that are mutually beneficial. Some of them might have good experiences and life lessons to share with you and you with them.

>I think my parents reaction to my questions set an expectation in my mind that people just don’t want to deal with me.

I'm not sure how to help on this. Have you tried reflecting on why you have this feeling? Have you put in effort to learn things on your own? A lot of people just want someone to tell them how to do everything because they are lazy. If you come off like that, maybe your parents are just tired of trying to give you advice or help you. We all have access to a huge wealth of free information through the internet and libraries these days but people have to be willing to use them.

> I am thinking of creating it with C Sharp

First, forget about C#. You'll need to go native (Swift / Obj-C) if you are doing for iOS or some steady cross-platform solution if you are targeting both platforms.

> What market should I am for Android or IOS? (What makes more revenue)

Second, you choose the market according to your target audience. Generally (but only generally), iOS is more profitable. For simple non-specific apps you better go with 2 platforms.

> What are the costs of a normal app? ( I want to make it cost free )

The rule of thumb here is free app + in-apps. There are exceptions: rare, complex, specific apps or really cool games which can afford to be paid.

> How should I market my app?

The general answer is: buy motivated installs and let the app do the work for you (make people share it and go viral).

> How should I revenue my app ?

Ads and/or in-app purchases.

> Also where should I find my designers for the app?

There is a lot of sites where you can hire a freelance designer: upwork, people per hour, etc. But bear in mind that you'll need a guy with the experience of prototyping iOS apps. You can try https://www.invisionapp.com

My advice - go to the gym join group exercise classes - typically people in these classes become a community pretty quickly - so having a community that holds you accountable to fitness would be good.

Alternatively go to a meetup.com event. Can join a kickball/softball/volleyball league make friends be active in the community, or just make awesome friends who will support you and help you grow.

Watch motivational youtube videos and read about personal development. I like these folks:
Jim Kwik
Jim Rohn
Jordan Peterson
Tony Robbins
Les Brown
Eric Thomas
Mel Robbins
etc.

Try an effective fad diet like Keto. r/Keto is a super supportive community and if you can be disciplined youll see results pretty quick.

Try to meet some peers that you can relate too as well.

Hope this helps and best of luck to you! Keep your head up! We all go through seasons!

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It's pretty hard when you're just starting out, because too often you're building sites just as exercises or just to teach yourself, and it's not as rewarding. My recommendation is to think of the sites you want to build later on, and start building them with the skills you have now. But instead of puling data from a database, you should just hard code everything (basically prototyping without backend functionality). You'll eventually repackage it into smaller bits, but it'll help to have the portions of the modules there.

One way to build new sites is to hop on http://www.programmableweb.com, choose the newest API published, and build a site completely based off of that API. It might also be helpful to learn how to use OAuth early so that's not a barrier later on. But if you're not at the API level, again, just hard code everything.

Building the "obligatory blog" can get boring after a while, so just make sure to mix it up.

You can also user http://itsthisforthat.com/ for ideas to build joke sites.

you will probably want to start working with a game engine. a friendly community for a nice game engine (jMonkeyEngine) is here

Check out the engine here

They have a lot of examples and it uses java, a programming language that is quite easy to learn.

you should also look into 3D modeling. maybe you are into that. There is a huge need for 3D modelrs..

With Web Development, you start with HTML(format) and CSS (style/layout). Learn to design pages. Then you learn JavaScript (behavior) to add functionality. Here's a good short youtube series by google on separating your front end concerns between the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60O1CJqh8IM It's old, but important in understanding how to look at these front end languages.

You learn HTML and CSS first because they're not really programming languages, but they're still important to web construction. Many times, you'll have a general layout or template written in HTML but the specifics of your site (whether to have <form> to sign in or a <a> to log out) can be generated with JavaScript or your backend language based on your business logic.

Don't worry about the back-end for now. Back-end languages are great for security and accessing databases, but with all the APIs available, you can develope fully functional (and useful) websites without databases. So yeah, you start with the front end. You can find some great tutorials on https://tutsplus.com/ I'd also recommend Jon Ducketts HTML & CSS book as well as his one on JavaScript and jQuery.

Once you are comfortable with the front three languages, then you Bootstrap for CSS, jQuery for JavaScript, and maybe even Ajax if your javascript skills are good (Ajax can be complicated though so maybe hold off on that).

If you havn't, you should work through CodeAcademy.

For Python, I started with the Python tutorial, which got me to where I am today, so it can't be too terrible. If it's not working for you, I've heard good things about Learn Python The Hard Way, but I've never tried it myself. As to the tutorial, 90% of what I do on a daily basis is covered in chapters 3,4, and 5. If you have those down, you can pick up the rest on an as needed basis.

Some other programmer will tell you that I'm a horrible person for not telling you that chapter 9 is the most important chapter in the tutorial. They might be right, I don't know. I almost never use that stuff unless I absolutely need it, and my experience with Haskell has been teaching me that I almost never need it. On the other hand, there's a few million programmers out there that will tell you that the stuff in chapter nine is the most important thing to happen to programming since the computer, so I figured that I should at least give you a heads up.

Given your background, I'm guessing that you're probably looking to do some sort of Python server backend? As I said in my post, web tech isn't my area of expertise, but I'll try to help where I can. For a beginner, your best bet is Flask. It's not as full featured as the more popular Django, but you'll have a much easier time understand what it's doing. That's not to say that Flask isn't powerful, but Django does by default a lot of things that Flask only does when you specifically ask for it.

I hope that's of some help to you. Let me know if you want some more specific guidance or if you get stuck on a concept. Or just if you have any questions.

I would recommend Codecademy , it has alot of well explained tutorials for HTML, CSS, PHP, Python and Ruby. It will guide you through every step you take and instantly show results of what you made.

It also lets you practise on other's creations and allows you to create and practise on community's tutorials

Diese Themen werden in jedem Informatikstudiengang behandelt, je nach Prof und Ausrichtung der Uni mal besser und mal schlechter. Wenn du solange Selbststudium betreiben möchtest, schau dir mal Code Complete sowie Clean Code an, die bringen dir vermutlich aktuell am meisten.

You're better off with a mentor who can look at what you're seeing and watch you as you draw, so you really need someone local and physically present.

Here are some resources anyway to start you off.

http://www.saveloomis.org

Books:

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

Keys to Drawing by Bert DodsonDodson

How to Draw What You See by Rudy De Reyna

I would like to suggest a few things that have helped me. Yale has an online course on game theory (the teacher is excellent). You can move at your own pace and the notes are included. It's on iTunes, youtube, and their website, but here is a link http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159. One of the suggested readings for this class , Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff, is an excellent read, fairly cheap, but very insightful. Hope this helps somewhat.

I'm 24, so probably would not be the "mentor" you're looking for, but if you wanted some advice as a "friend"/redditor, feel free to PM! A lot of the things you mentioned are things I went through when I was 22-23.

Also, I would definitely recommend that you read these books: The Power of Habit, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It puts things into perspective and helps with forming a practical action plan.

Dang, double post. :( Right, I'm completely by myself. I've pretty much picked the econ teacher at my school's brain (and refer to her as a "renound economist" when I need a source for something she's said, haha) I'm pretty familiar with Adam Smith--mostly his 1776 "The Wealth of Nations"---but I've never heard of Ricardo. I'll have to look him up.

Diese Themen werden in jedem Informatikstudiengang behandelt, je nach Prof und Ausrichtung der Uni mal besser und mal schlechter. Wenn du solange Selbststudium betreiben möchtest, schau dir mal Code Complete sowie Clean Code an, die bringen dir vermutlich aktuell am meisten.

If you are interested in applying a Bayesian analysis to your experiment, we can work through this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Tutorial/dp/0123814855/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424437232&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=bayesian+analysis