#and coders find creatives frustrating to work with??

[chride]

the thing about coding that frustrates me to no end is that when you're doing something you've done before it takes you minutes but when you're doing something you haven't done before it can take minutes, hours, days or months just to get it working sort of as intended and then who knows how long to get rid of bugs

like, how is this in any way a reliable process of getting anything done

[rabbitindisguise]

I think honestly the most frustrating thing is that there's no other truly free blogging website with as much cross-user interaction as tumblr (tumblr positive, if cranky, rant)

what I mean is when I tried to find a replacement tumblr, my options were cohost (close, but not the same, and not nearly as active), wordpress (completely divorced from any integrated community), boba boards (does not currently exist as far as I'm concerned because I can't get an account!), mastodon (more like twitter than anything else and and not nearly as user friendly as tumblr). Dreamwidth comes close but again, it's just not the same- you can't reblog and add additions and the image quality is very bad last I checked. Neocities gets real close but again, it's just not integrated enough.

And it's like, this is why there is no competition and that's why people just won't leave. This is literally the best fandom website, it's better than pinterest, it's better than youtube, it's better than any dedicated music platform/art platform/photography hosting website for people who want to do more than one thing at a time. It's basically the cellphone of social media. You can do music. You can do video. You can do embeds and uploads. You can interact with literally broken parts of the website (deleted users, posts, glitches, etc). You can curate moodboards. You can posts photos of your pets. You can live blog, you can embed links, you can add summaries and excerpts, customize the text with lists and colors. It's a lot less functionality in any one feature than other places, but other places require $$$ for a quarter of what tumblr does half functional. It works for photographers, musicians, authors, bloggers, artists, fans of anything, people interested in STEM and anything that uses hyperlinked citation, crafters and other people who sell/use/share digital products like patterns, coders, etc. Those groups exist everywhere on social media, but nowhere else can you independently host full length blog posts, high quality images, and videos with as many users as tumblr has. At least none that I'm aware of.

You can ~build a following~ on tumblr, but most importantly you can like . . . find stuff you like? Easily? Just find one mildly interesting blog and find out who they reblog from and who reblogs from them and you suddenly have access to thousands of people who share similar interests and are using the site regularly.

If they really sincerely want more users, pausing in place (and improving features like they had been) and pivoting the marketing strategy it might actually work. It's just a matter of where to put the ads and what kinds of things to say in them. "Premium" website services that charge 10, 20, 35 dollars a month for what tumblr does for free would be gutted by tumblrs new indie shop features. Squarespace, ghost or whatever it's called, ko-fi, linktree, medium, shopify, etc would all be chipped away at very easily, while the other big name social media websites wouldn't. "Small business? Want a sleek minimalist shop experience? Personalized updates? Tumblr might be for you!" Or "self pub author? join hundreds of authors online talking about their creative process and sharing updates on their work! No character limit!" Or "tired of complicated server management? hate fixing bugs and code? try tumblr." Like jesus it's just that they don't actually understand what's actually available because they don't seem to get why so many different people use it. They're trying to turn a swiss army knife into a spatula and wondering why people keep telling them it isn't going to work :/

i get the point of the polls informally showing that the vast majority of tumblr users have been here for years and barely anyone is new. the problem is that the suits don't look at that kind of data and go "ah, we understand. the majority of our users are oldheads who want things to stay the same. we misunderstood our audience." they absolutely have hard numbers on these things. they surely know most active users have been here forever. but they look at these stats and go "wow, our growth rate really IS shit. we're still relying on an ever-dwindling pool of users who have been here since they were teenagers in the early 2010s. we need to be working even harder to make this place appeal to new users"

the higher ups and investors on sites like this want infinite growth forever. this is why they keep changing the layout to make it look like other, more popular sites, even though we hate it. this is why they try out shit like tumblr live that doesn't appeal to the established core userbase in the slightest. it's not for us. it's also not for the ~5% of active users (if the poll going around is to be believed) who signed up within the last year. no, they're chasing after the hundreds of millions of people who use twitter and the BILLIONS of people who use tiktok, hoping to appeal to them and make tumblr more popular again

this is, of course, deeply stupid. nobody is leaving tiktok to hop on tumblr live. they already have tiktok. and we're on tumblr because we like tumblr, not because we want it to morph into something else. but i'm sure automattic's got venture capital investors breathing down their necks going "why isn't tumblr more like twitter or tiktok or facebook or instagram or" etc. etc., and so here we are

[trendsnova]

The Stealth AI Works Behind the Scenes Building Millionaires

Forget ChatGPT - These Steal-the-Show Income Streams Are Transforming Lives in 2025

The Secret Gold Rush No One's Discussing

While the majority are still having AI pen poems or create logos, a small but shrewd subset of entrepreneurs is quietly accumulating serious fortunes, quickly. We're not discussing hype or viral stunts. We're discussing practical, scalable side hustles fueled by AI that have little or nothing to do with technical expertise.

These are not the usual suspects. They're not about creating prompts for Midjourney or selling ChatGPT templates. These are the hidden corners of the AI revolution. The ones making six and even seven figures for people who barely know how to code.

The AI revolution isn’t coming. It’s already here. And if you’re paying attention, there’s still time to claim your piece of it.

AI-Driven Micro SaaS: Passive Income Without Coders

What it is: A Micro SaaS (Software as a Service) business targets a highly specific problem, frequently solved with a light-weight web application. Nowadays, products such as Bubble, Glide, and GPT-powered APIs enable non-programmers to build full-fledged applications that automate mundane tasks, lead generation, resume creation, and meeting note summarization, to name a few.

Why it works: Companies love efficiency. If your AI app saved a person some time or money, they'll pay for it. Create it once, and attach subscriptions come in.

AI Course & Content Licensing: Sell Once, Earn Forever

What it is: Rather than starting a YouTube channel or producing ebooks, folks are using AI to develop high-end educational content courses, toolkits, workbooks, and licensing them to businesses, organizations, or producers.

Why it works: AI accelerates content development by 10x. Once you develop a quality, niche course (e.g., AI for HR managers, GPT for real estate, etc.), other people will pay to license it under their brand.

Data Labeling-as-a-Service: Low Skill, High Demand

What it is: AI models must be trained on clean, labeled data. Businesses now outsource data labeling work (such as finding objects in images or classifying customer messages), and some freelancers are leveraging automation and intelligent workflows to make this a high-volume hustle.

Why it works: Companies do not want to waste time on cleaning data. If you can partially automate with AI, you can charge by the task and grow quickly.

Niche AI Prompt Marketplaces: The Etsy of Automation

What it is: As prompt engineering gets trendy, niche marketplaces are arising where creators market well-performing AI prompts for particular professions, such as legal copywriting, customer support bots, or real estate descriptions.

Why it works: People need results, not trial and error. If your prompts lead to closed deals, they'll pay for replicable success.

Automated Affiliate Content Machines

What it is: This side business marries AI content creation with SEO + affiliate marketing. Individuals are now building entire websites that review products, create comparison articles, and rank on Google, all automated by AI.

Why it works: After initial setup, these sites operate half-passively and make money from affiliate commissions on each product click or sale.

AI-Powered Resume & Cover Letter Services

What it is: AI can create resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn makeovers instantly. Intelligent freelancers offer this as a service, including custom career packages with rapid turnaround.

Why it works: Candidates are frustrated and want to be different. AI provides you with speed and personalization that sells, particularly when combined with a human touch.

The Takeaway: This Isn't a Fad, It's a Shift

If you're still holding off on "learn AI" before diving in, you're already behind. The next generation of AI side hustles doesn't need a PhD or a technical background. It needs curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to experiment.

The internet didn't wait for humans to catch up, and neither will AI. The only difference now is that this time the opportunity can grow without you.

The million-dollar concepts aren't trapped in laboratories; they're on your browser, just waiting to be utilized. The question now remains: will you construct with it or watch others first?

[instailyacademy]

The Challenges of Software Development

The demand for software development skills is high in today's rapidly changing technological landscape. Businesses of all sizes and industries are looking to digitize their operations, and they need skilled software developers to help them do so. However, a career in software development can be challenging. In this comprehensive article, we will explore the intricacies of software development and the hurdles that aspiring developers often encounter along their journey. Whether you are a newcomer considering a software development course or an experienced coder looking to stay relevant, this article will shed light on the obstacles you may face and provide valuable insights on overcoming them.

The software development field is in a constant state of evolution. With each passing day, new programming languages, frameworks, and tools emerge, promising more efficient and sophisticated solutions. However, this rapid pace of change can be overwhelming, especially for those just entering the field. To succeed in the software development field, one must be prepared to confront several key challenges.

1. Learning Curve

Software development is not a field that can be mastered overnight. It requires a significant investment of time and effort to grasp the fundamentals and become proficient in coding. Novices often find themselves daunted by the seemingly endless array of programming languages and technologies available.

2. Staying Updated

Once you've acquired basic coding skills, the challenge is far from over. Keeping up with the latest trends and updates is crucial. The software development field is known for its "burstiness," with new breakthroughs and updates occurring frequently. Failure to stay current can lead to obsolescence.

3. Problem Solving

Software development is not just about writing lines of code; it's about solving complex problems efficiently. This requires strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Developers must decipher and address issues that may not have clear-cut solutions.

4. Project Management

In a software development course or career, you'll likely work on projects that require both creativity and discipline. Managing time, resources, and teams can be challenging. Effective project management is essential to delivering successful software.

5. Coding Errors and Debugging

Even the most seasoned developers encounter bugs and errors in their code. Debugging can be a frustrating and time-consuming process, but it's a critical skill to develop.

6. Security Concerns

With the increasing reliance on software, security breaches have become more prevalent. Developers must be well-versed in cybersecurity to protect the systems they create from threats.

7. User Experience (UX) Design

Developers must consider the end-user experience when designing software. Striking the right balance between functionality and user-friendliness can be challenging.

8. Team Collaboration

In many cases, software development is a team effort. Effective communication and collaboration are essential to ensure that projects run smoothly and meet objectives.

9. Career Advancement

Advancing in a software development career requires continuous learning and networking. Knowing when and how to take the next step can be perplexing.

10. Maintaining Work-Life Balance

The passion for coding can sometimes lead to overwork and burnout. Achieving a healthy work-life balance is vital for long-term success and well-being.

Conclusion,

Software development is a dynamic and rewarding field, but it is not without its challenges. Whether you're considering a software development course or are already knee-deep in code, understanding and addressing these obstacles is essential for a successful career. Embrace the learning process, stay adaptable, and continuously seek opportunities for growth. With determination and perseverance, you can navigate the ever-changing landscape of software development and thrive in this exciting field.

[travllingbunny]

Halt and Catch Fire - most underrated show ever?

Here am I, late to the party and discovering great shows that ended 4 years ago!

I binged AMCs Halt and Catch Fire in a little over 2 weeks and finished it yesterday. I can't understand why this show was never more popular. I found it absolutely addictive. I loved all the main characters. The acting, writing, music was phenomenal. It has a place in my all-time top 10 TV dramas!

When I tried to pitch it to my Twitter mutuals, I was asked what it was about, and here's my best pitch: it is about a group of people developing computer tech during the 1980s-1990s, but that synopsis really doesn't do it justice. It's not really about computers, but about people and relationships. The computer stuff really stands for themes like, forging connections, and daring to dream of a different future. It's probably a hard pitch to make to people who haven't seen it, especially if they're into SciFi, action etc. and who may think "oh, it must be slow and dull unless you're a tech expert". But it's not, it moves fast, so many things happened, and it kept ripping my heart to shreds.

The main characters are some of the most messy, dystunctional, frustrating but compelling and ultimately lovable people I've seen on a TV show, There is is a lot of surprising character development - when you look at the difference at where they start and where they end.

The acting is phenomenal. Lee Pace is incredible and plays his character with charisma and presence rarely seen on TV. Mackenzie Davis's face and body language is incredibly emotioanlly expressive. Scoot McNairy and Kerry Bishé are also fantastic.

Finally, there's a lot of great alt rock 1980s/1990s music in it. Some of it made me nostalgic... and some will now always remind me of the show and certain scenes.

Now, if anyone who is already a fan of HFC is reading this, under the cut are my headcanons about what happened to the characters after the series finale.

- I want to think Donna's idea was something really, really good, and they finally have some success without anything to mess it up. This is the part that's the hardest to imagine specifically. I know the timeline doesn't work for them to invent YouTube or social networks... But who cares, I want to think they have some success, not the kind that would make Donna a tech billionaire, that would be too much, but something decent. It would be the best if it is something to do with online communities.

- I can't see Cameron being a part of a big corporate structure, but she gets jobs as an outside expert coder and can make a living and develop more games. She also does a lot more soul-searching, finally talks to her mom properly, and it all helps her with her creativity. Her next game is one where the player, the lonely pilgrim from the previous game, can win only if they manage to sucessfully connect with other characters. It becomes very popular.

- Cameron will definitely get in touch with Joe again. She certainly wanted to in the finale, and shelearned that he was in his home town. With the Internet , it's not like it would be that hard to find out exactly where he is and what he's been doing. There were also hints in the finale about "reoccurrence" that her 'software' works like that, always doing the same thing over and over. They keep living separate lives, 'because of different current lifestyles and living in different places and all, but they stay in touch by e-mail and online etc. and she drops by whenever she finds the time to visit, so they can do some reconnecting, and *ahem* "reconnecting". :-) Which, I think, is the only way they can have some sort of a relationship that kinda works. (Why does it have to be a conventional relationship or nothing? Especially if you are people who are bad at conventional relationships. And we know these two can never stay out of each other's lives, and couldn't even when they were bitter enemies.)

Finally, another fan on SpoilerTV has brought up the question, what would the characters think of today's tech development, would they be excited or say that things were better in the old days?

- I think Joe, at any age, would definitely always be excited and awed about every great new idea that someone comes up with and would encourage them to put it into the world.

- Donna, on the other hand, would definitely be the curmudgeon who whines about how things used to be better - she already did exactly that in one of the last couple of episodes, when she and Boz talked. I can see them still complaining about it to each other when she visits Diane and great-grandpa Boz. (Who may be dead by 2021, but maybe not - both of my aunts are over 90.)

- The only one I'm not 100% sure is Cameron, but I think she changed by the end of season 4. Season 2/3 Cameron closed herself off emotionally and it affected her work, and she was very 'my ideas are the only good ones', but I think the new and more mature Cameron would be more open. I can see 50-something Cameron working with and mentoring younger people (she was great with Joanie, after all, she has that in her) and being excited about new tech.

[rabbitindisguise]

Actually I think if writers and linguists are in the words fandom, that means artists and some physicists are in the light fandom, coders and mathematicians are in the numbers fandom, and textile designers and engineers are in the Squares fandom, etc etc etc

So art (regardless of if they're making books, paintings, video games, or a sweater) all benefits in some way from STEM fields. Most people are probably less frustrated that they're in Science™ classes than the fact that they probably want to stick to their Fandom. College courses that have overlapping fields should pay less attention to "whatever art/STEM class they can pass!" and start giving people classes that they would benefit from passing to begin with

Like, honestly, I'm still scandalized that I kept getting recommendations to take the "easiest science credit we offer" despite having 0 interest in repeating the basics I understood already in highschool. If someone told me to join a class on linguistics, rather than generic ~social science credit~ I would have jumped at the chance. Hell, there's dozens of ways to have overlap. I see it all the time with humanities. History courses about art. Art courses coupled with poetry. Why not the science of photography for art AND science students? The physics of cashmere. Math as a language vs code as a language vs English as a language.

Give students more options that don't artificially create a dividing line between the two groups of fields. Even if the above weren't true, this still acts as if I can't understand what a physics major is saying better than someone without any degree training because I was at least trained in Academia Speak. Students lack confidence in the "other" field because no one bothers to give them any in the first place

Anyway this post is just to say that I thought I was A Bad Artist because elementary school art didn't include enough written/scientific explanations for the exercises we were doing. You can create a hundred shaded cubes, if you don't know why you're even doing it the whole exercise is pointless. The idea that you just ~understand~ art through seeing it with your eyeballs centers primarily visual learners (which- ydy! Visual learning itself is rad) and that's why people assume if they can't do it automatically on the first try they can't at all. My ability to reproduce images from complete memory is utterly useless if I don't know how to reproduce images unless it's a cube- without the theory, I don't know that's how sunshine works because I have to be told the big picture stuff first.

On the other hand, I could Words at the first try because that's how I learn about stuff and things, and everything else has to be translated for my brain to get it. Woodshop had the same problem- they'd do a bunch of things and I'd be like "wtf" but if they just said I needed to screw until it was flush without me asking, I wouldn't have needed to ask, and I would just Do the thing. But since I could actually use my personal skills (creativity, memory, zest for life) with writing because I understood it, I have much higher grades in English. I even got praised for it more despite having equal amounts of ADHD at all times. Because the class is accessible to my learning style. If it wasn't accessible, then I wouldn't get compliments, despite having the same amount of so "innate talent" (practiced skills available) either way.

So many people are walking around thinking that they suck at English because they might understand it better through typography or audiobooks and the institution pits us against each other based on what we're naturally inclined towards. Institutions act the only way you can learn about English is through books and like the only way you learn art is through your eyeballs. I'm not "better" than someone that picked up reading picture books when they were older because they didn't have the right glasses to read, and I'm also not better than someone who finds doodling helpful and never got credit for their journal entries because they weren't words even if they were thinking about the text critically.

And like. This applies to fields. No one should be forced to write a book. Not only does that make for dense, incomprehensible texts but . . . remind me again who's reading them? Other STEM people mostly. Why would you do that. You incentivized a group of people to be good at science and nothing else, present them no methods to learn English skills they understand, no wonder they're so bad at it.

That's all on top of their professors not knowing how English works so they apply science logic to language while they also dismiss the field because they're never taught the benefits of reading in any meaningful sense- and even their scientific thinking shows extreme failures of thought because they don't understand even the most rudimentary English concepts.

And some things they think are just flat out incorrect. They believe humanities majors make less (not always) because there's less skill (never) or less capitalist value (blatantly false- look marketing). They think that because they're a STEM they can more accurately assess this information than, say, someone qualified, like a STEM in language related fields- saying things like Latin/English/Chinese is the only language worth knowing, acting like introduction clarity is less important than your graphs, thinking that their work is not conditional on the people that provide access to the materials in the first place.

Holy shit this post is long. Anyway academics should stop judging other people in their fandom, and schools and colleges should make it easier to learn in other fields than the auto fill assumption that because you're good with learning via words, you're going to go into English, and if you're good at learning through seeing things, you're going to go into art.

[thetapelessworld]

ODDSound Release MTS-ESP Suite for Dynamic Microtuning

ODDSound Release MTS-ESP Suite for Dynamic Microtuning

UK STARTUP & APHEX TWIN REDEFINE MUSICAL TUNINGUK-based ODDSound’s collaboration with Grammy-winningelectronic artist Aphex Twin seeks toevolve a fundamental musical component - the note.

A new computer music technology,MTS-ESP, sets notescompletely free

.MTS-ESPchallenges the dominance of western tuning,giving global cultures tools tocompose in traditional local tunings whilst extendingthe possibilities for all.

MTS-ESPallows for fresh creative approaches to musicalcomposition, enabling electronicmusicians to define and change pitch at any momenteven whilst notes are playing.

Independent developers collaborate to empower musiciansto access alternative tunings.

           Until recently most music software only allowed working with the            same 12 notes, equally divided over an octave. Whilst microtuning additions have broadened this considerably, it can still be cumbersome to get all plugins and external synths in tune, until now...          

           The MTS-ESP Suite equips composers with tools to get everything            tuned quickly and accurately, as well as presenting entirely new compositional    methods.          

           Change notes or chords whilst they’re being played, transpose all           instruments at once or morph into an entirely different tuning system - the possibilities are endless. Discover more about tuning  and get detailed visual representations in real-time, or simply get everything tuned correctly in record time.          

The MTS-ESP Suite provides the computer musician with an intuitive toolset for rapidly composing and finessing microtonal pieces.Existing MIDI compositions can be easily converted to a different tuning system and given an entirely different emotional context. Working on new compositions is made nearly effortless.          

FEATURES:

Import and export .scl, .kbm and .tun tuning and mapping files

Create new tuning systems, manually and algorithmically

Control the tuning of your whole studio from within a single plugin

Retune any plugin or MIDI device with either MTS-ESP, MPE, MTS SysEx or MIDI pitch bend

Automate tuning changes across all plugins and MIDI devices

Visualize and compare tuning systems

Convert compositions from one tuning system to another

Create subset scales by analysing MIDI to only include used notes

Use a Novation Launchpad as a microtonal keyboard and chord player

Create tunings by ear and tune instruments with the built in synth

Zero-latency, low CPU use

Simple, ergonomic resizable interface

Mac Retina and Windows HiDPI support

Free, completely functional 30-day demo

When young we’re told that there are seven colors in the rainbow.  As we grow we realize that this isn’t true;the rainbow is a spectrum of color, a chromatic blur, and we’re completely used to visual artists utilising its variety.  In music we’re similarly told there are twelve equally spaced notes (12 Tones of Equal Temperament, or 12 TET for short).  Again, we grow to realize pitch is also a spectrum, yet this notion rarely extends to the music we listen to because the industry has been firmly rooted in those twelve notes...until now.  A collective of British musicians and software developers seek to challenge the tyranny of a de facto tuning system imposed on us all.

Although 12 TET has been a musical concept for millennia,its ubiquity is comparatively recent. Prior to mass manufacture of musical instruments the world was brimming with localized intonations,theories of tonality and tuning experimentation on the parts of composers.  12 TET enabled the industrialization of instrument manufacture through standardization, but the dawn of digital synthesizers in the 1980s ended the need for this conformity.  In theory a synthesizer could be tuned arbitrarily, so after lobbying from Robert Rich and Carter Scholzthe MIDI standard was extended to include specifications for changing tunings in 1992.Sadly that technology, known as MTS (MIDI Tuning Standard), never achieved broad adoption.

The constraints of 12 TET became increasingly apparent- pop hits often have similar melodies,leading to the all-too-common lawsuit and our ear shave grown so accustomed to this single tuningwe can find anything else discomforting (somethingTV and film composers have leveraged for decades now).  Young musicians marveling at world music such as Gamelan may wonder how such ethereal composition could be achieved, as often little is taught on the subject at western conservatoires or universities.  Musical commentators started to ask the obvious questions -have we run out of notes and is this dependency another vestige of western colonialism?

“It has been long evident that composers have been taxing both the system and its instruments far beyond their capacities, and that the continued tyranny of Equal Temperament is leading tothe degeneration of tonality...It would be health yfor us to realize fully that our instruments are exactly as poor as the system and habits of thoughtwith which they evolved.”Harry Partch

Many musical mavericks and global musicians already knew the answer - there’s a continuum of pitch, tonality is subjective and escaping the prison of those twelve notes can give music a whole new life.  To this end developers Damon Hancock and Dave Gamble (of UK audio brand DMGAudio) hatched a solution - an easy-to-use system unlocking the whole pitch spectrum.  It allows synthesizers to be tuned however one wishes and for tuning to be modified in real-time with no setup required.  MTS-ESP was born.

Tuning enthusiast Richard D James (Aphex Twin) showed them his vintage Rhodes Chroma synth with custom firmware that enabled him to author new tunings by ear and then transfer them to other instruments.  It was a laborious process, often taking hours to tune all the instruments on a recording,but it worked and was more musically intuitive than alternatives.  These ideas were consumed into the project and soon a holistic, centralized approach to tuning emerged.  EDM producer and coder OliCash (a.k.a. Far Too Loud) joined the team and a new company was formed, ODDSound, specifically targeting the boundaries of creative music technology.

There was one small problem left - whilst the system delivered solid results with existing hardware and software the perfect solution necessitated third-party developers to add code to their products.Adoption of new technologies in computer music hasoften been a slow process, spanning many years if not decades, so why would anyone integrate MTS-ESP prior to launch?  Richard, already friendly with numerous synth companies, offered hissupport to the project.  Now it has been openedup for anyone to use, with freely available code for developers and free software for users.  MTS-ESP now enjoys one of the broadest adoptions on launch of any computer music technology in history, aswell as a zero-cost entry point for everyone via the MTS-ESP Mini plugin paired with free softwareinstruments.

"You now have63,050,394,783,186,944-128 more frequencies to play with" Richard D James

A plethora of compatible software, some free and some commercial, is available now from forward-thinking developers including : Audio Damage, Audiorealism, CWITec, DMGAudio , Expert Sleepers, HY Plugins, Modartt, Surge, Soundyan, TAL, U-He, Xfer Records,

More are joining weekly and the possibilities for tuning don't end there either. The full MIDI Tuning Standard, mentioned earlier, is resurgent on modern hardware synths, notably those from Moog, Waldorf and Novation, offering a way to control the tuning of individual notes from the system.  Expert Sleepers provide a way to retune analogue and Modular synths using Control Voltage (CV) with MTS-ESP integration in their “Silent Way” plugins.MTS-ESP can also be used for tuning in the virtual modular VCVRack and MAX/MSP visual programming environments via free modules provided by ODDSound.

The launch  of the MTS-ESP ecosystem is a huge leap forward for electronic music creators that utilise the infinitude of alternatives to 12 TET.Veering from tuning norms has been costly,time-consuming and frustrating until now, but this technology remedies the issues whilst empowering users to explore a universe of approaches to tuning.Now independent developers have united to push music technology forwards perhaps we will see more such projects to come.

The ODDSound MTS-ESP Suite is available now at oddsound.com for £79.99 (GBP).

The ODDSound MTS Mini plugin is available now at oddsound.com for free 

https://oddsound.com/index.php

[simlicious]

Hellouuu

Heya, what’s up? You might want to know what I have been up to lately? I am pretty quiet on the blogging front, I know... I am more focused now on my therapy, getting to grips with the presence of Covid-19 and working on getting my fears of it in check so I can work on my other fears, setting up some things in motion for getting on the career path eventually, and figuring out some things about who I am and how I want to be (changing up my wardrobe/style, reading up on how to be more in-tune with yourself) and game-wise, I currently really enjoy going back to past games I played and replaying them. I also dabble in modding a bit for Subnautica, wich is one of my favorite games ever, but since I cannot really code (I kinda would like to), I am just doing some personal edits of other mods, changing some config files and use the means other modders made possible for non-coders to add some items and recipes to the game. It is still creative and a lot of fun :) I also tried out a thing or two with some sims 3 patterns, but it is too early to say much about it yet and I do not want to promise anything, because my interests are all over the place right now. A book review coming up I am in a good mood today - I feel another creative phase is coming up. In fact, I know, because I read this book, The Optimized Woman, by Miranda Gray - it is really insightful for people who menstruate. A bit on the spiritual side, but you can extract quite a lot of helpful things form the book. I found the four menstrual phases in general really helpful in finding out how my energy, mood and abilities change throughout the month. Basically, Miranda suggests that there are four different phases people who menstruate go through every month. If they understand what is happening in each phase, people who menstruate can better tap into the potential each phase brings. Hormonal changes in their bodies also affect emotions, energy levels and cognitive abilities. But if they are aware of how they change throughout the month, they can use this to their advantage and use the things they are especially good at/that come easily to them at a certain phase and work in harmony with the phases instead of trying to be consistently good at something that is harder in some weeks of the menstrual cycle than in others. Is this book for you? I think it is a very unique concept that I have not come across before, but it really helps me understand myself better and I feel like there is some truth to it now that I have paid more attention to what is happening throughout my cycle. If you are person who menstruates and you are sometimes frustrated throughout the month and feel you lack energy, or find you are not “consistent”, maybe you want to tackle a project but struggle with it because you sometimes lose the vision you had for it and sometimes get a lot done but in other times are really doubting yourself and lose focus, or if you just want to feel more at ease and like to plan things ahead of time, you may want to give it a read. If you need scientific proof of everything and are not at all a spiritual person, you might skip reading it. I think the book should not be taken entirely literally, and the contents of the detailed planning steps that can be found throughout the book are meant as an example, not as a cookie-cutter thing. It is more the overall concept of it that is important in my opinion. You need to do the work yourself, analyse your cycle and figure out how those things apply to you specifically, but then it can be a very powerful and useful tool. What did the book do for me? For a few years now I have noticed that I do a lot of things in phases. My hobbies change periodically, my creativity seems to be present and fade and suddenly returns again, sometimes I just understand other people so well and can reach out and teach and really give something to others, sometimes I have no energy and only want to be left alone and do things to “recharge my batteries”. But I never before searched for a connection or looked for consistency on how those phases come and go. The book helped me to take an analytical approach to it and I can make much better sense of it all. I’m really glad I found this book! I look foward to seeing where my creative energy takes me this week!

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Should You Hire a Software Development Company for Your Project?

With the planet becoming more and more technologically advanced, it's become imperative for businesses to possess a digital presence. this is often why the demand for knowledgeable and adept software developers is on a continuing rise. After all, businesses often lack the in-house capabilities offered by software development firms. Entrepreneurs are constantly looking to rent app development companies that concentrate on the type of project they require.

In this article we'll be covering many aspects of hiring a software development company and why you would like to rent one.

*How to seek out the proper software development company

To start with, let’s cover the struggles faced during the hiring of a software development firm. numerous development firms are present out there, but it's tough finding the proper one. It takes tons of your time to travel through the appealing designs and sales pitches of development firms that claim to be experts in only about everything. One must not get distracted and instead focus to seek out the proper development partner, who won’t treat your software project as just another one.

*Know that software development may be a lot quite just writing code

Software development isn't almost writing an extended line of codes; developers are liable for tons more. When a software development firm is sweet , it'll transcend , crafting a useful product, contributing to style and assisting within the deployment.  Most of the adept and experienced software developers are in high demand, mainly within the mobile app development field. However, later on, many entrepreneurs become frustrated to find out that 60% of mobile coders delivered but five applications, whereas 20% delivered between five and nine.

*Software projects are expensive

Most software projects run over budget, usually by 50% or more. Usually, the value range for a mean project is $15,000 to $150,000, and a mean project takes around 1,000 hours. this will become costly when the typical hourly rate is between $50 and $400. Usually, software development outsourcing is assumed to assist reduce costs, but most development firms offering cheap rates are weak. And thanks to the various goof-ups on their part, the companies find yourself paying quite decided.

*Software outsourcing might fail

In the year 2020, due to a failed software update, a myriad of RBS bank customers did not access their bank accounts, and even the bank couldn’t conduct any transaction for a couple of days. This demonstrates how critical software is. Unfortunately, 25% to 50% of software outsourcing projects tend to fail. the explanations might be many. for instance , business operations might be out of sync with the project requirements or the specifications for the project might be inaccurate. Often the error is that software development firms outline documentation in many pages then hire junior coders to only blindly follow these pages sans any creativity.

What to seem for during a software development agency

There are a couple of basic items to stay in mind before hiring a software development agency. There are a couple of differing types of outsourcing, such as:

1 Onshore software development: These development firms are located within the same country and might even be in your own city.

2 Offshore software development: These development firms are located aboard.

3 Nearshore software development: These are the event firms located in neighbouring countries.

4 Hybrid development outsourcing: These are the projects with onshore management and offshore or nearshore software development teams.

Mainly the onshore development firm offers the simplest quality services, with face-to-face meetings. These are considered an honest fit short-term projects with large budgets. Offshore development, on the opposite hand, benefits firms that have clearly defined projects and are trying to find more of an economical solution.

Frequent communication and shut collaboration is important

It is vital to make sure open lines of communication and shut collaboration. you want to convey your ideas properly and clearly then offer regular supervision. an honest relationship must be maintained with people you're working with. So, see thereto that the event team is hospitable communication. Also once you interact with the team, there are chances of arising with creative solutions & ideas.

 Set defined expectations and communicate them well

There are some ways to code the precise same thing, but entrepreneurs tend to be unaware of that fact. They often believe that a programmer is well-versed with every technology, but that's not true. There are often different tools, frameworks, coding styles and more that different programmers use. For this reason, it's crucial to require care of certain aspects while hiring a software development firm. Choose a corporation with a particular field of experience , sort of a JavaScript development team, as they typically have a unified command of all processes. so as to select the proper technology, it's essential to understand the functionality that you simply expect from your appThis helps in knowing what sort of firm you would like to seem for.

The more prepared and defined your project, the better company selection and hiring are going to be . Your strategy are often defined by asking an issue like: what's the aim of your app? Who will use it? What platforms will it run on? Who are your competitors? What field will it belong to? Accordingly, an inventory of required features are often created then you'll prioritize them. you'll even make an annotated design, outline UX, navigation, user flow and technical requirements.

 Costs may vary

Next, you would like to understand what the value are going to be . If you search on Google what's the value to create a software of an app, you'll find this general answer: “Apps that are developed by top companies may cost somewhere between $500,000 to $1,000,000. Then apps developed by onshore companies may cost somewhere between $150,000 to $450,000. therein case, you'll expect a professionally developed application to cost anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000 and it's bound to take around four to 6 months."

Factors to stay in mind when hiring a software development company

What are the aspects you would like to seem at while hiring a software development firm? Once you sift through the Googled options and private referrals, it's now time to make an inventory of 10 to fifteen firms. Have a glance at their websites for an initial assessment. concentrate to the red flags, like complaints, lawsuits and bad reviews. Then study all the problems and see how those issues were resolved. Following this process, you'll shortlist three to four firms. Then get in-tuned with them and request a quote for your project or idea. Finally, access their communication, expertise area, tech stack, staff questions and therefore the current state of the corporate so as to settle on the one that works best for your business and objectives.

Next comes negotiations and preparing a contract. It can even be a group of contracts, including: a masters service agreement (MSA), a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and statement of labor (SOW). Ensure to incorporate a non-compete clause and property rights clause within the contract. Also, the payment terms should even be a centre piece of all outsourcing contracts.

Ask the proper questions

Once you've got found the proper software development company, there'll be tons of questions and communication happening , where there might be tons of buzz words and tech terms. there's such a lot to travel through, like people questions, process questions, business questions, schedule questions, also as questions on technology, costs and more. The firm should take you thru their entire development process during a manner that you simply completely know it.

Tips to rent software developers

Here is that the list of belongings you must know of before hiring the developers:

• Define your requirements: What problem is your product getting to solve? what is going to the precise duties of the developers be? What technologies and skills would be used? what proportion budget would be required?

• Create a shortlist: Find a firm that does the sort of labor you would like . as an example , a React software development or JavaScript development firm. Then have a glance at their expertise and client reviews. Narrow them down and leave those that don’t list the clients’ references.

• Time to negotiate: Organize calls, personal meetings or whichever mode of communication works for you determine about their standards, their workflow and costs .

• Follow up: there's no got to rush a choice even when everything seems fine. it's time to verify references, past work, study candidates, think through the budget, team arrangement and other crucial aspects.

• Say "no" if needed: just in case you're not fully satisfied or there are obstacles, then walk off instead of later regret having spent an excellent deal of cash . There are numerous other development agencies out there and you'll find one that most accurately fits your requirements.

*What are the advantages of hiring a software development company?

Focus on long-term client relationships. Huge resources are spent by software development agencies to seek out new customers. Thinking from the financial aspect, it works best for a firm to create trusted relationships with their customers and continue developing projects for them for an extended time. These firms are constantly striving to create a robust reputation, in order that they make the simplest efforts to satisfy their clients and there's a coffee probability of any delays.

In order to compete with the opposite software development agencies, each of the organization follows current trends and implements pioneering technologies, development standards and methodologies. Software development agencies are constantly evolving to take care of a high-level of produced software.

When a software firm is hired, there are variety of individuals involved within the development procedure. Also the wants are documented, along side design elements, mockups and other crucial information. this suggests that albeit the foremost unexpected events occur, the whole procedure won’t be stuck. the event process will continue with the collected data and albeit a development team member leaves midway, they will easily get replaced .

Software development firms are far more responsible compared to freelancers, and that they work their best to deliver high-quality software to all or any of their clients. there's testing happening at every stage of a project lifecycle, which ensures proper internal control of the ultimate product. There are quality analysts within the firm who work on the projects from the beginning . This takes care of the wants gathering stage and completion with the deployment stage. this type of approach is useful in creating user-friendly apps that meet all the wants of your audience .

When a development firm is hired, there's a software development agreement between customer and development company, and this states the quantity of tip that might inherit the possession of software development firm. The agreement even mentions an inventory of deliverables that the event firm is meant to realize for the client. this type of agreement assures that your software would be developed, designed and tested during a stipulated timeframe. this manner there are fewer risks associated here, as compared to once you hire a freelancer.

 Hiring a software development firm will add your favour in every aspect and just in case you're trying to find software development services then get in-tuned to receive the foremost favourable results.

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Creative Writing Thoughts - writing as procrastination

Why did I have such an easy time writing fiction while I was in college?  The answer is obvious: It’s because I was procrastinating.  I would write in between problem sets.  I would write on my laptop at the best Chinese restaurant in Davis (which was situated in a gas station).  I tended to write quite a bit before finals, and quite a bit after finals once I had time to finish.  I would plot constantly.  Sometimes I would write ten pages in a single weekend, just because I had so much time to think.

Was it good writing?  That’s a different matter.  Sometimes it was a little bit...how do I say...heavy-handed.  Like overhearing people complain about a problem set in my second year, and how ridiculous it was they weren’t allowed to have partners.  I decided to write a short story where someone has that exact attitude, that the class is ridiculous and he’s just going to go ahead and fail, but then every other coder at UC Davis is brutally killed by zombies and the professor, sadist that he is, says this protagonist’s only chance of saving humanity is by using coding and data structures and algorithms to save them.

I also came up with “Pre-Med Battle Royale” while taking introductory biology, “Apocalnet” to express my frustration at there not being an upper-div web development class (never actually written, put a pin in that), and “Fort Nitta” in a class literally called software engineering.  I’m particularly proud of “Fort Nitta” because it is now one of the first things you find if you just type “fort nitta” into google.

I guess what I’m saying is that there’s a lot to write.  Writing gives reality coherency.  Writing is a way to grapple with pain, with growth, with big decisions.  People who really hit Writer’s Block, I imagine, aren’t really grappling with the issue of writing, per se...they’re perfectionists who are having a hard time upholding their own high standards for good writing.

The story I had printed in the UC honors journal was...weird.  I can link it to you, if you’d like.  Still, I tried to make it fall less into the category of “fking around writing” and more into “serious writing.”  It was about this honors student with a 4.0 whose brother was addicted to drugs, and even though his brother was based on someone real (and what actually happened to him), he could not have been further from my actual brother.

I guess what I’m trying to say, in conclusion, is....

Some people don’t write because they don’t feel they have anything to write about.  I get it.  I’m probably in that group.  I didn’t have a traumatic childhood, or flee from an oppressive regime, or found a charity, or grapple with much more than the SAT.

But...

Fine.  I’m normal...ish.  I could write about the fear of always being alone.  I could write about a breakup that took place two days before Valentine’s Day, when I had the heart-shaped chocolates wrapped and in hand.  Or college.  I could write about college anxiety.  The 120 companies I applied to before landing my first job, the feeling of existential dread, the health problems I had in my last year of college, the debate I had in my mind about whether I picked the right job or the right field or the right town.

And if that’s way too boring, I can just take that emotion and try to transfer it into something interesting.  Fantasy.  Post-apocalypse.  My personal favorite is exaggerated science fiction, where the feeling I have in 2020 that everything is quantifiable and emotion is pointless and people are replaceable is replaced by a hypothetical 2100 when we simply murder everyone who doesn’t immediately check the boxes of a job.

When he came to Davis to give a talk, Kim Stanley Robinson actually said he really adored The Hunger Games because it completely capitalized on the millennial feeling that we were being forced to kill each other for the limited number of jobs, much like the med school students and engineers (and, I imagine, writers) of our age are currently doing.

It’s not always fun, but creative writing is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than getting this code to work.  For me, at least.

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MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

  The rapid growth of mobile devices such as smartphone smartphones and tablet tablets is considered the ideal environment for mobile applications to become famous. Every day, tens of thousands of applications are launched on Apps Store, Google Play, or other app stores.

These applications not only meet the needs of human interaction, entertainment but also serve many different purposes like sales, management, education, health, and so on. With that being said, the mobile app development service is tailored to be perfect and functional.

WHAT IS MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES?

Mobile applications are becoming an essential and highly beneficial marketing tool. A popular mobile application design provides many useful aspects for users such as beautiful interface, outstanding features.

Users only need to download to use it freely without network (e.g., games, books, cooking, etc.). So mobile application downloads are increasing rapidly with dizzying speed.

Surprisingly, there is no such official definition for mobile application development services. But simply put, this is the activity of app developers building, designing and developing software, applications running on mobile devices. These applications are built by smart algorithms to give users the best mobile device experience possible.

These applications can be preloaded on phones in production platforms or distributed as web applications using server-side or client-side processing (e.g., JavaScript) to provide coverage application experience in the Web browser.

Application software developers must also consider an extended range of screen sizes, hardware specifications, and configurations because of the intense competition in mobile software and changes in each platform.

Mobile application development services have grown steadily, in revenue and jobs created. An analysis report in 2018 estimated that 10 million jobs were directly employed in 28 EU members, 85% of which were mobile app developers.

What is mobile app development service?

  iOS APP DEVELOPMENT OR ANDROID DEVELOPMENT?

If you are app developers, developing an app for Android or IOS is still the question presented on the drawing board. We know IOS is a popular one, run on every Apple products.

And its main rival, Android by Google, are also deemed to be the big name, if not biggest. Each of these two platforms has its own distinct features, customers, coding language, and even the cost to maintain for a Mobile app developer to choose from.

iOS or Android who will win?

iOS APP DEVELOPMENT

Creating by Steve Jobs back in 2007, IOS continuously upgraded and extended as it’s now a home for more than 2.1 million applications, with hundreds of features, such as gesture recognition supports and personal assistant Siri, and several more…

Apple’s iOS and compatible apps like iTunes, a media player app mainly focus on music, which unfortunately will discontinue its mother developer in 2019, And a data storage service name ICloud,  saving billions of documents, or maybe hundred photos of your precious dogs that you resist to delete.

With iOS, creating an app meant to be without any difficulties. Their target audience is mostly teenagers, and around North America, Western Europe, and Australia. iOS users are also businessman entrepreneurs, and mostly wealthy.

iOSrun on Swift, an original programming language by Apple, which gives mobile app development service more flows and structures to work on, more comfortable to create apps. However, putting an app on iOS is not easy, consider that Apple App store follows stringent rules and depends a lot on design and interface.

That is why the cost to create and maintain the apps on IOS is quite expensive and requires a lot. Other than that, it is somewhat a good idea to choose iOS as a platform to launch your applications.

ANDROID APP DEVELOPMENT

Presented in 2008, Androids, on the other hand, runs on multiple smartphone devices and praised by its versatility. Initially developed by Android Inc., Google has second-handedly brought glory to this mobile operative system; while still giving freedom to hardware manufacturers and Android’s devices users.

Android has various of usages beyond one software can comprehend, such as experimenting on non-phone electronics, a gaming platform such as Google Play or even an open-source platform for a lot of mobile application development service thrive their creations.

Having a lot of large smartphone brands such as SAMSUNG, Pixel, HUAWEI, and many more…, Android is taking over its target audience in Asia and South America. Many new features have been found in the upcoming Samsung Note X and Galaxy Fold. And an introduction for Android Q Beta 3 which reminds a lot of people of an IOS design.

With some comments about the lacks of appealing aesthetic, Android, using Java as their programming code, remains its creativity and gives their audience an easily customizable interface, and becoming more and more advanced in the eyes of the apps developers.

Monetization is significant to apps developers because customers tend to download the free app rather than paying in-App like Apple.

HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICE TEAM?

Our two main tiers for developing an app are Design and Development. If you want to pitch a perfect app idea, an excellent development service team is required. Mobile app developer and designer, a skilled IT team, will guide you through a list of thing they can do.

Even if they are proficient, don’t let your opulence blinds you, they may claim to be expertise and promise to build you a beautiful website, your ideas of how to make it are priorities, and you have to control your team to produce your perfect, million worth app.

Why do we need a perfect app development team?

  WHO WILL BE YOUR PERFECT SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPERS?

To pick out a perfect team, you will have to understand these app companies and select the best option.

Some app development services will do all the work for you; these companies have proficient skills, proper management; some will even offer a marketing strategy. With that being said, a company like such must be extremely experienced, you should to ask some of their previous product, rather than ask what they can do.

Another difficulty is a different idea; somewhere along the way, you may find yourself disapprove your team works. It must be said. Otherwise, your app will be a misfit and out of place.

While these companies control most of your apps, others are required to just focus on one or two things, which is developing and designing your ideal app.

If your app is lacking pretty interface or overall messy, you need to find a team of professional designers, but do be careful, wisely pick a qualified team of designers and again, ask for their product, if they aren’t advanced, they usually don’t have an art director for UX/UI design.

And if you want a developer team full of IT experts and coder, make sure they can do cross-platform coding, whether it is Android or iOS.

SHOULD YOU DO MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT YOURSELF?

As mentioned before, the demand for mobile phones is now increasing significantly, as those who use the phone often keep their eyes on many different applications which stand out and attracts them. Therefore, mobile programming is becoming very captivating for a lot of people.

The app store model is like a software supermarket. Programmers have the opportunity to interact with millions of customers on the app store. Those who know mobile programming can work for software companies, especially when their code skills are strong, implementing the idea into an app will become easier.

Other can quickly make money from writing as well as selling applications without mobile app development service. The app store model is like a software supermarket. Programmers have the opportunity to interact with millions of customers on the app store.

  HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN MOBILE APPLICATION?

All tools and documents are available for your reference. However, the most important thing is that you must have a good source of motivation and environment to study, exchange, and get the best support. In other words, whether your mobile application is going to be favorable depends on many factors.

First and foremost, you should acknowledge the urge of competitiveness by carefully take into consideration that the startup market has existed for quite a while now and there is a wide range of well-trained app developers who are currently working day-to-day to launch new projects.   

Knowing your audience well is another critical point to achieve success. Most of the ideas are targeted to a specific task or function rather than a particular audience. Target audience only becomes significant at the planning stage of marketing. However, you never should underestimate your target audience. After all, those are the ones responsible for the success of your application

The mobile platform that you will be focusing on also plays a crucial role.  In the world of mobile devices, Android and iOS are still the most popular and optimal operating systems today. In short, to develop mobile applications for a specific platform, it is more convenient if you apply the language supported by that platform.

  IS THAT A GOOD IDEA?

The best thing about being an app developer is to bring your ideas to life by turning it into a selling application. However, accomplishing it and bringing it to the user is not a simple thing, and only a few wrong actions can lead to an application’s failure.

Regardless of your career, if you do not have a career orientation and a clear plan, the path you will take is going to be difficult and frustrating. It is also the first thing that those who step into this path need to remember. Many difficulties will arise during app creation.

For example, you can sit for hours, even days, to code an application, but when it is almost done, you have to give up and replace it with a faster, more accurate solution. This is very difficult to accept, but inevitably, you will encounter this situation if you study programming.

You need to understand that programming changes very quickly, and there are many good ways to approach problems. Finding a new solution is the reason for programming.

In general, this is a high-income and attractive job, and it also allows you to create, solve problems, and understand yourself more. Indeed, it will be more difficult when you create your own without having a mobile app development service, but when it is finished, you will feel very worthy of what you have spent.

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE A CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICE?

Choose mobile app development service team know what they are doing…

Custom software development (also referred to as bespoke software or tailor-made software) is the process of designing software applications for a specific user or user group within an organization. Such software is designed to accurately address their needs and preferences as opposed to traditional and more popular software.

Developing customized mobile applications is the perfect choice due to its several utilities. Consider this simple example. Two grocery stores offer customers a nearly identical range of goods. But at the same time, they have completely different tactics and goals. Thus they cannot have the same application. The design and functionality of the application should depend on the intent of each store and in each case.

The notable feature of developing customized mobile applications is the ability to deploy your ideas exactly the way you envision. In other words, developing a customized application to meet your business needs, and the final product will fit into your business’s operational path. In contrast, available application development solutions provide a common platform for everyone to cover as many companies as possible.

Customizable walkways also allow the development of a personalized strategy for each customer. This is feasible due to the combination of analytical tools with the early stages of app development. You can follow each guest’s preferences and create personalized suggestions to serve their needs. Forming close relationships with customers has never been so easy.

Finally, it indeed creates a highlight for the company. Return to the example of two grocery stores. One prioritizes delivery at home, while the other relies on a loyalty program. Therefore, mobile applications should emphasize the factors that make the difference of proposals.

The custom application is completely capable of doing this. Meanwhile, pre-built mobile application solutions are created to provide defined functions. Therefore, these apps cannot expand the features, so the company’s mobile proposals will be limited. In case you try to add some features, your app will become like a fake car – with good looks but lousy performance.

CONCLUSION

In short, the success of the mobile application development business depends on the dynamism and creativity. It also poses the problem of how to provide users with the best digital experience. The more social and media develop the more mobile applications developers need to pay more attention to the future direction of the mobile industry.

Now when you have fully understood the concept of a mobile application development service, go out there and spread your wings!

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Generative art and the blurred lines of authenticity

Generative art refers to art that is created using an algorithmic process, often involving computer software. In this context, the artist's role may involve designing the parameters and rules that govern the generative process, as well as selecting and curating the output. As generative art becomes more prevalent, it raises questions about the authenticity of this form of artistic expression. Is generative art "real" art in the same way that traditionally created art is, or is it simply a digital experiment? Is the artist's role in creating generative art the same as it is in traditional art, or is it fundamentally different? And how does the use of technology and algorithms impact the authenticity of generative art? These are complex and nuanced questions that do not have easy answers. The concept of authenticity in the art world is not fixed, but rather is shaped by cultural and historical context, as well as the perspectives and expectations of different audiences. In the case of generative art, the lines of authenticity are blurred, as it challenges traditional notions of artistic creation and expression. In this context, it is important to consider the various factors that impact the authenticity of generative art, and to recognize that the value and significance of art should not be judged solely on the basis of how it was created. Whether or not generative art is considered authentic, it can still be a valuable and meaningful contribution to the art world, and can provide new and interesting insights and perspectives on the creative process.

Blur between "No Code Art", and "Creative Coding" There are many artists who create generative art without coding, either by using existing generative art tools or software or by working with coders or other technical experts to develop custom algorithms or processes. In these cases, the artist's role may involve designing the parameters and rules that govern the generative process, as well as selecting and curating the output. Meanwhile creative coding is a form of programming that is specifically designed for artistic expression and creative exploration. It involves using code as a means of creating interactive art, music, visualizations, and other forms of digital media. While creative coding can be an exciting and rewarding form of artistic expression, it can also be challenging, especially for those who are new to programming. Some of the difficulties of creative coding include: - Learning a programming language: Creative coding often requires a strong understanding of programming languages such as Java, C++, or Python, which can be difficult to learn for those who are new to programming. - Debugging code: Code is often complex and may contain errors or bugs that need to be identified and fixed. This can be time-consuming and frustrating, especially for those who are still learning the basics of programming. - Balancing aesthetics and functionality: Creative coding requires finding a balance between aesthetics and functionality. This can be challenging, as it requires considering both the technical constraints of the code and the artistic vision of the project. - Managing time and resources: Creative coding projects can be resource-intensive and may require a significant amount of time and effort to complete. This can be challenging, especially for those who are working on a tight deadline or who have limited resources. Despite these challenges, creative coding can be a rewarding and fulfilling form of artistic expression for those who are willing to put in the time and effort to learn and master it. With practice and persistence, it is possible to overcome these challenges and create innovative and expressive digital media using code.

"No Code" and "Creative Coding" hybrids Hybrids of no code and creative coding refer to generative art that is created using a combination of no code tools or software and creative coding. In this context, the artist may use no code tools or software to generate a base output, and then use creative coding techniques to modify or enhance the output in some way. Whether or not generative art created in this way should be considered original or authentic depends on the specific context and the extent to which the artist has contributed to the underlying process. If the artist has simply used an existing no code tool or software without making any significant changes or contributions to the underlying code, then the resulting art may not be considered original in the same way that traditionally created art is. However, if the artist has significantly modified an existing no code process or used creative coding techniques to significantly enhance the output, then the resulting art could be considered original in the sense that it is a unique and creative expression of the artist's vision. The question of whether generative art is original is a complex one that depends on the specific circumstances of its creation and the context in which it is being evaluated. It's also worth considering that the concept of originality can be subjective and may vary based on the perspectives and expectations of different audiences. Some people may view generative art as inherently less original than traditionally created art, while others may see it as a unique and innovative form of artistic expression. Read the full article

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I'm curious, why did you choose coding as a career? Did you like it from the start, or did it grew on you over time? I just heard it's really frustrating, but I imagine you like it, right? What do you like about coding? Sorry if it's too many questions it's just an area way out of my league XD

It pays good money lol.

I’m actually looking to lean more towards Project Management, which still pays really well, but requires less coding from me and puts my leadership training that I’ve done to good use lol. I’ll be graduating next May with a BA in Computer Science and a minor in Management of Information Systems.

I didn’t have coding in mind until literally my senior year of high school, I took AP computer science, with zero coding knowledge under my belt at the time lol. My dad’s actual a Computer Science major as well and works in the industry, so he’s helped me during that AP class and on other things as well. Obviously I have to do the work myself or I don’t learn and he’s good at asking the right questions to get me down the right thinking path lol.

I do enjoy coding, but I hate doing the school version of it. Many assignments, which do have reasons for being the way they are and are important, absolutely suck to do. My favorites (which also can be the most frustrating) are when we do games like Breakout or Battleship. Most assignments early on are fine, usually small, teaching you basics and stuff. But later on you find yourself literally writing an Excel like program (which I never got mine fully working heh…) and writing the filesystem commands to function as if you were using it normally on a Linux computer but you’re running a C program. (And that program can actually legit delete things and stuff? So like it is 100% important to know how to not delete things you want to keep, including the actual computer).

I’ve also been granted a lot of opportunities because of choosing coding. I went to the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Technology in 2016, all paid for by the school. It’s a huge conference which has about 15,000 attendees each year, hundreds of companies which you can talk to representatives about the company and do interviews, and tons of free junk lol (I have a pic of my collection lol). I’ve also attended my school’s Hackathon each year except this past one (something else was going on that weekend and I couldn’t) which I’ve won prizes at twice. My first year I was a finalist for the main coding competition (I think the guy I was working with and I placed 5th?) and the second I won a category which was implementing Amazon Web Services or tools in some way which I was using Amazon Lumberyard, which is a game development engine (Which was very hard to use btw, I think it’s gotten a bit better with more learning tools but Unity is way better with tutorials and learning materials).

It’s 100% frustrating, but google and my whiteboard are my besties, and talking with others about things helps a lot. It’s a very logical and methodical field but it also takes creativity to come up with the solution. And for all my complaining and whining about it I do still enjoy plenty of different aspects (though I’m never touching autopilot shit again after my senior project is over and not even gonna think about AI because that shit requires soooo much high level crazy math, I mean not that other things don’t require crazy math, but there’s easier crazy math and then there’s that).

My favorite classes have been about algorithm analysis. I have a professor I’ve taken three classes with (who sadly I can’t take any more because the next one is a grad student class and I don’t need that stress lol). I actually enjoy a lot of the theory, even if I’m uh… not knowledgeable about the math in some spots.

I’d love to end up in the game industry, more along the story telling side, but I’m gonna be taking a less direct route, I’ll either be an entry level coder or entry level project manager. It’s much easier to get into what you really want after you’ve gotten actually in.

And no worries! I’m always happy to answer things about coding, no matter how aggravating my own path has been, I fully believe in supporting anyone who wants to give it a shot. It’s an incredibly important field and becoming more and more important for people to know things about. It’s rocks being electrified and told this series of 0’s and 1’s means this lol. And I’d equate it to learning musical instruments, it’s another language you’re learning to read and write (well languages, but most languages follow some basic things and stuff so they can do most of the same things it’s just they have areas they specialize in).

[sayantandodo]

Could you please advise me what to do in life? Why not a StartUp?

Many young bloods planned so many things in life at an early stage, but as the time passed the plans fail and they become depressed. It is not only a boundary of a single country; it is an issue of all over the globe. Young generation people think and dreams a lot, but they need a guidance and a mentorship at that time to make the dream come into reality. Here is the solid platform of mentors, life coaches, guides and advisers; SkillPal. The team have a huge list of mentors who have a long-term experience in the industry. Young people and the novices can come to SkillPal for live video chat and bite-sized videos which may provide by experienced mentors.  

Mentors can develop into some of your most meaningful and life-changing relationships. A good mentor can make the difference between learning lessons “the hard way” and easily sidestepping mistakes on your entrepreneurial journey. But a mentor can’t be taken for granted; their time is just as valuable as yours, so don’t waste it. It’s important to take the time to prepare, to learn about them, to ask questions and to really put their advice to work. SkillPal is the strongest platform to get an expert mentor who may provide personalized feedback. You can definitely find a mentor at SkillPal. It is the platform where you can get bite-size videos on your topic from experts. SkillPal will make you reach the career goals, maybe your passion or professional benchmark.

How you may create a bond with your SkillPal Mentor:

1. Ask how you can contribute to the relationship.

2. Set SMART goals.

3. Prepare an agenda.

4. Bring specific questions.

5. Ask for honest feedback.

6. Take an active approach.

A mentor is a business professional with the experience to provide personalized support, sound business advice and encouragement to help emerging entrepreneurs develop their own abilities and insights. A mentor’s value stems from the fact that they’ve “been there and done that,” giving you the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and successes.

I am really wanting to tell you what are the key roles in a startup business. But you may need a mentor first to make you understand what the things to do and what not to. A mentor is a person who has a professional and life experience and who voluntarily agrees to help a mentee develop skills, competencies, or goals. Put another way, a mentor is an advisor and role model who is willing to invest in the mentee’s personal growth and professional development. A mentee is someone who has identified a specific personal or professional goal and who believes that the guidance and help of a mentor and being held accountable to the mentor can help them achieve their goal. If you are searching for a mentor SkillPal is the best way. Effective mentoring requires more than common sense. Research indicates that mentors and mentees who develop and manage successful mentoring partnerships demonstrate a number of specific, identifiable skills that enable learning and change to take place.

No startup is built on the exact same structure. This is because startups are, by definition, agile, lean, and adept at evolving based on the company need. However, some general role categories seem to recur everywhere. These include:

·         Engineers: out of all the positions at a startup, backend engineers are probably the ones who benefit the most clarity. Hackers, born coders and computer scientists are usually technically-orientated, focusing on learning the best programming languages, algorithms and frameworks for the project.

·         Product managers: often have engineering backgrounds, but also see the bigger picture. They enjoy analyzing traffic, understand how to prototype and research, and often know their way around various tasks.

·         Marketing and sales: the hustlers who will do everything in their power to promote and sell the product to the right audience.

·         Business Developers: often lumped together with sales, these positions often become available to more experienced salespeople. There is crossover in the skills, but making deals on a large scale implies strong people skills and an innate ability to network with the right people.

·         Legal teams: not always needed for brand new ventures, but primordial for growing startups.

·         Human Resources: hiring and firing, but also attracting top talent to fill positions at the company.

Startup roles are heavily dependent on what the company does. They also change greatly based on their size. This is why it is often useful to understand roles in the context of personalities, rather than job positions.

The Dreamer:     often the chief executive officer (CEO). They are the people whose passion     and vision can lead the project, either because they started it or because     they are absolutely the right person for it. They are often the startup     founders.

The Visionary: business     vision is just as important as company vision, and the responsibility     falls on the shoulders of the chief product officer (CPO). Their role is     to inspire team members based on the CEO’s dream, making goals a reality.

The Doer:     a role often taken on by the chief technical officer (CTO). It’s their job     to understand and meet technical challenges, by hiring the right startup     team and making them all work harmoniously on set targets and goals.

The Hustler: this     is what chief sales officers (CSOs) are often called. Hustling is     synonymous here with networking, selling, and generally driving the     product forward through usage.

The Growth Hacker: a     strategic thinker who is both analytical and creative. This person     understands marketing and how to create traction by understanding what     users want and how to give it to them.

One of the biggest challenges for small startups is to define clear roles that can be taken on. This is because startup teams often have to start small a small and one person will have to wear many hats. CEOs are often the ones doing the marketing, HR, legal and sales. CTOs manage projects, operations and developers. This can cause numerous problems in the long term. Roles that aren’t clearly defined can create frustrations for every party involved. Communication failures, authority issues and work overloads are all common problems found in young startups. In short, while wearing different hats is inevitable at first, it becomes important to promote delegation and the division of tasks as the startup evolves.

For most startup teams, it starts with a whiteboard. They will gather to answer a number of questions that make role definition easier:

What am I good at?

What technical skills can I offer?

How is my experience relevant?

Will I be able to delegate or hire people to help my     role?

Am I the best person for the role in the company?

This may take some back and forth. As always with teamwork, it’s important to be clear-headed.

This is where finding the personalities that work best together can have a tremendously positive knock-on effect. Strong, clashing egos could attempt to take on too much while stepping on other people’s toes. Similarly, those who lack assertiveness may see key responsibilities taken from them when they are in fact best suited for the role.

Choosing a mentor is not easy. But it is easy if you go through SkillPal. Here you can get the most important feedback of your work and knowledge. They are the most important pal of your skills. A mentor is someone whose life or work you value and admire, and who you think might be a good guide. These days, a mentor can be any age, in any field, so we encourage you not to think of a mentor in traditional terms. Too often we limit our mentors to those in more senior positions. Don’t let a person’s age, title, or experience pigeonhole your thinking. Have specific goals. Before you even begin your journey into looking for a mentor, you need to first know what your goals are.

The role of a SkillPal mentor is to:

· Help build your self-reliance and leadership skills

· Help you discover your own insights, abilities and solutions as you start and grow your business

· Support your self-directed learning and help you come to your own conclusions and decisions

· Listen to your ideas and answer your questions truthfully

· Give emotional support while also challenging you

· Provide real-world business advice when requested/appropriate

· Celebrate milestones and successes

Being given the “answers” can make your life easier, but that isn’t the primary type of support a mentor provides. Your mentor will enable you and provide opportunities for you to learn how to solve problems and make decisions, ultimately helping you to help yourself.

Mentors are an essential ingredient for the success of any social entrepreneurship. They can help you learn how to navigate many of the challenges typically faced by social entrepreneurs, such as:

· conceiving a viable business model that creates both social and financial value

· measuring and evidencing social impact

· governance and legal structures

· processes

· attracting investment

· organizational structure

Mentoring participants will bring different competencies, tenure, and organizational knowledge to the program. You’ll want to make sure you’re matching them on the right skill traits. To do this, mentors and mentees fill out rich profiles. Based on the objectives of the program, these profiles will contain elements to help create rich matches, such as mentee developmental goals, mentor competencies, function, job experience, topical interests, and educational background.

Actually, SkillPal is the only mentorship platform where you can find a specific solution for your business and yourself. Having a mentor relationship is often a dream come true. A mentor is a teacher, a trusted advisor that a budding entrepreneur can turn to with questions and get valuable advice, tailored directly to their industry and specific business situation. But, how do you actually go about finding a mentor? While sometimes the relationship forms organically, it’s too much to hope that the perfect mentor will simply drop into your lap.

By using SkillPal we can be more confident that how my work is going on! Many of us do our work or our project from our perception of our own concept. But the maximum time we are getting flop and lose our confidence. But if we review our work from an expert mentor then we can be very successful. A mentor from SkillPal will tell us what mistakes he or she had done by doing this long ago. So as a result, if we listen to them, we can’t repeat those mistakes again.

In conclusion, it’s useful to remember that no organization, big or small, is built on the same structure. Amazon, Google and Facebook all operate on drastically different org charts. Similarly, no startup launches with the exact same roles. Regardless, no matter how small your venture is, it will still require structure. While it must be agile and adaptable, this means clearly defined roles that match the personalities of the employees. It’s not only a safe way to ensure smooth long-term operations but clearly a business advantage. In every corner of the world, there are many boys and girls who want to make their own startups rather than they want to work under someone. It is very easy to think but tough to handle.

There are chances of mistakes while starting their own business at a very young age. Young people must take advice from experts. SkillPal is a platform where people can get industry experts. Actually, SkillPal is the only mentorship platform where you can find a specific solution for your business and yourself. Having a mentor relationship is often a dream come true. A mentor is a teacher, a trusted advisor that a budding entrepreneur can turn to with questions and get valuable advice, tailored directly to their industry and specific business situation. But, how do you actually go about finding a mentor? While sometimes the relationship forms organically, it’s too much to hope that the perfect mentor will simply drop into your lap. I suggest SkillPal for you.

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You might think a profession based on logic and learning would be immune to folklore, but the developer community remains rife with myth — myths so pervasive they begin to manifest into reality.

If all the programming myths were true, the programming world would look like a cohort of 20-something geeks (some 10x better than others) using their elevated math skills to code at all hours of the night. Well, as you probably know if you’re in the field, that’s simply not the case, nor are some of the things developers themselves believe about the industry. Let’s debug those myths:

Good Coders Work Around the Clock

Here’s where we insert a picture of Silicon Valley: a room of hoodie-clad guys hooked up to Red Bull IVs. There’s some truth to this, especially with startups. However, it doesn’t always have to be this way, and research would suggest that long hours and sleep deprivation don’t actually increase productivity. In reality, there’s a blurred line between effort and progress, and usually an outcome of unrealistic expectations. Plenty of developers have families and lives outside of programming, and would rather leave the office at a normal time. Instead of allowing that idea to persist, the programming community would benefit from looking at ways to improve workflow, and set realistic goals with agile methodology.

Offshoring Leads to Cheaper, Faster Software

Offshoring usually does the opposite, companies are only attracted to the idea because it seems cheaper. However, hiring more programmers for less money definitely doesn’t mean faster. It involves more communication overhead, training, and effort in repartitioning. Offshore development teams are also prone to higher turnover rates, meaning that the long-run desired effect becomes void. In this case, the in-house team has to pick up the slack and savings diminish.

Offshoring Will Destroy Your Career

As mentioned above, offshoring doesn’t necessarily lead to cheaper software done faster. People will continue to try this model until it has proven worthless, but offshoring is not going to suck all the jobs from the U.S. The facts remain: language does matter. Attempting to communicate with offshore managers and teams is unreliable, and tumultuous. Clients normally run out of money or patience dealing with offshore teams and turn back to the dev shops in the country where contracts can be better enforced.

The More People Checking, The Fewer Bugs

Eric S. Raymond coined the term, “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. It is a commonly held belief that in open source software that bugs will be found, reviewed, and fixed because anyone can take action. Truly, more people are using open source software than contributing, and most are not capable of correcting mistakes in code. In other words, too many cooks spoil the broth. A better way to is to use a concentrated team equipped with great bug tracking software.

Math Skills Determine Coding Skills

Yes and no. Math skills don’t necessarily translate into being a good developer. If someone isn’t mathematically inclined, they may be better at certain aspects of programming that require one to be clever or practical. Outside of gaming, most developers are only using basic algebra and statistics to find out how efficient the code is, and even that is minimal.

Developers are Geniuses

You don’t need to be a genius to be a programmer, you just need the drive and ability to learn. Programmers are constantly faced with mistakes that can be frustrating, and the best developers are those that can fail repeatedly and learn from mistakes.

You Can Specialize in Just One Thing

Learning never stops because the world of programming moves at light speed. It’s smart to master a language, because you’ll have the ability to work well and understand the nuances. However, never get stuck only knowing how to do one thing, you’ll end up knowing about ‘legacy’ software no one uses.

Language X is Better

There is not one, magic language for all of coding. Rather, every language fills a special niche in the coding environment. That doesn’t mean some languages aren’t better at one thing over another — you might use Javascript for interactive software, but C++ if you want to do something fast. Developers, keep bickering amongst yourselves, there’s no one perfect language.

You Can Master a Language in a Few Weeks

You may be able to learn the basic tenets of a language in two or three weeks, but you surely cannot be a master. Mastering a language requires interest, patience, and most importantly — application. You wouldn’t want a doctor operating on you if they had only read all the medical textbooks and taken the tests, you want someone who has spent countless hours actually participating in surgeries. Well, think of yourself as a surgeon, because the same muscle memory is needed to be a good developer.

The Software Crisis

In 1968, Edgar Dijkstra talked about the ‘software crisis’, which referred to building software that was inefficient, over budget, low quality, and difficult to maintain. Today, the fact that ‘buggy’ software costs the U.S. billions of dollars purports the ‘crisis’ although there’s no real crisis to speak of. Software isn’t doing too bad, it’s always improving. It commands a large chunk of the economy while moving at lightning speed, and there will always be hiccups in efficiency as new software emerges. No need to panic, the crisis is a myth.

When You Ship Software, You’re Done

Software is rarely finished. Sure, management and developers would love to believe that large, multi-layered a software is in constant flux, the developers who made the software aren’t perfect, applications change, added features introduce new bugs. Management and teams need to consider support and maintenance costs, and account for continual innovation that a product must upkeep to stay competitive.

Coding is Simply the Act of Writing Code

Management often thinks that developers are just translating an ideation into code, without understanding the decisions that developers make along the way. It’s quite the misunderstanding, because developers are building and making decisions for the project every step of the way. There are plenty of non-functional requirements and design decisions that developers make every day, and good developers are ones that can track those, communicate important decisions with a team, and make executive decisions on minor details.

It’s not a creative field

Yes it’s technical & logical, but it’s also an art form. Many non-programmers overlook the beauty in construction of code, and some developers may even believe this too. Many programmers would say it’s like poetry. It’s absolutely a creative effort. Paul Graham outlines the artistry of coding in his essay Hackers and Painters.

Developers Have Poor Social Skills:

A lot of people have the idea that programmers are loners who like to sit alone with their computers and code all the time, and when faced with social situations aren’t savvy contributors to an organization. Frequently, this leads managers to interact with developers in a way that underestimates the contribution of a development team. When managers do this, they are putting themselves at risk for a resentful team. Developers make decisions constantly in their code, and come in all shapes and sizes, just because you enjoy coding doesn’t mean you prefer solitude.

Developers Think Managers have Nothing to Contribute

Developers often operate under the belief that managers have no skills and are useless in guiding the development team. This isn’t true, most managers really know what their doing, and exist to shield their team from distraction, provide them with the best tools, and manage deadlines, budgets, and bring in extra resources when needed. People tend to focus on the negatives, so managers get blamed when things get frustrating, but their purpose is to make things run more smoothly for their team.

Young Developers Think They’re Hotshots

Maybe it’s just a symptom of age, but developers early in their career tend to think they are better than experienced developers. They learned a new technology they believe to be more productive, and are in turn more valuable than someone using old platforms. Many developers continue to learn new technology as they get older, as they should. The fresh out of college developers are overlooking an important factor: the depth and breadth of experience that only comes with time.

Programming is Boring

Everyone is bored with something, but you don’t dedicate your life to something that bores you. Coding can be fascinating, it’s a mix of architecture, math, and language. People who think coding is boring don’t understand the intricacies, but developers know that coding is all about coming up with solutions and learning — how could that be boring?

A Developer’s Career is Over at 35

Ageism in the programming world is real, but age is not what ends a career. Individuals who get stuck in one language, or fail to learn new platforms and technologies contribute to their own waning relevance. This is not to say that developers leave programming entirely, many move into management positions or start their own companies. Others continue learning and loving developing for their entire career, it’s just a matter of staying up-to-date.

Developers are a Commodity

Often people think a person who writes more lines of codes is more productive, but developing isn’t bricklaying. Hiring cheaper programmers and expecting the job done exactly the same is irrational. Developers are people! They have specific skills, personalities, and knowledge. As a language, some programmers will be better at one project than another, and that’s what will influence efficiency.

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7 Tips for Parents Who Want to Teach Their Kids to Code

Why Should My Child Learn to Code?

If you’re looking for a skill to teach your children that will benefit their present and their future, coding is an excellent option. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Coding can greatly expand their career choices. 

Technology and electronics both play a huge role in our everyday lives. When you teach kids to code, especially at a young age, they gain knowledge and skills that will help them be successful in these highly desirable and good-paying career fields. Without early exposure to coding, kids may be less prepared for or less likely to pursue fields like software programming.

2. Coding teaches important skills. 

Even if kids ultimately choose to pursue a career that doesn’t directly require coding, the skills they develop, like logical thinking and problem solving, will make them desirable candidates for almost any job. With their critical thinking and creativity, they’ll also find themselves better able to solve everyday problems.

3. Coding is a language. 

It’s a way of communicating with a computer, just like words are the way we communicate with each other. Children start making sounds and responding to loved ones only a few months after birth. In fact, it’s much easier for kids to learn a second language when they’re young. So, it’s best to start early to teach your kids to code!

If you want to know detailed guidance, here is the ultimate guide for parents to help their kids to learn to code.

7 Tips for Parents Who Want to Teach Their Kids to Code

1. Start Slow

You can start teaching kids how to code when they’re as young as five years old, but don’t expect them to quickly pick up advanced coding languages and computer programming. It’s important to understand that the process will take time and a lot of patience. If you try to engage kids with coding, you also shouldn’t worry if they aren’t interested right away. Try a different approach, or wait a month and try again.

Don’t replace all their current toys with coding ones, either. “Start slow” means teaching kids to code over time, not overwhelming them all at once. This helps kids get used to the idea of coding and encourages them to learn and grow at their own pace.

2. Make Learning Fun, Not Just Educational

Think back to how your kids learned their first language. Were you doing drills and flashcards when they were six months old? Of course not! Your kids learned the language through stories and rhymes and games. Coding isn’t any different. To teach kids to code and engage them, avoid having them just write lines of increasingly complex code. Make coding fun by incorporating games. If they enjoy coding, they’re likely to keep their interest, learn more easily, and be open to challenges. If coding starts to feel too much like an educational task, they’re likely to lose their interest or get frustrated.

3. Use Age-Appropriate Coding Programs

Your five-year-old isn’t going to be able to solve a calculus problem or read Shakespeare, so don’t expect him or her to start coding in C++. Scratch is a great first language for early coders. It has a simple interface and drag-and-drop functionality, and coding errors are impossible to make because commands that don’t work together won’t fit together. Are you ready to teach your kids to code with Scratch? Here are Five Things to Know to Help You Get Started with Scratch 3.0!

When your kids get older or frustrated with the limitations in Scratch, Python is a great coding language to use next. It will let them make more sophisticated programs but still isn’t quite as advanced as other coding languages. It’s a great stepping stone, though, and its use is prevalent in numerous industries. Here are Five Reasons that Python Programming Is Perfect for Kids.

4. Incorporate Coding Games and Apps

The Internet has tons of resources, so use it to your advantage when teaching kids to code. It’s a great resource for finding interactive coding games and apps that can keep your kids having fun while they learn how to code. These can be especially beneficial for young kids who aren’t ready yet for lines of code; instead, they use simple graphics and animations.

Makeblock has compiled and explained the Top 9 Coding Apps for Kids and the Top 9 Online Coding Games for kids. We even tell you which ages the apps and games are best suited for, so you can find one that’s perfect for your child’s experience and abilities.

5. Make Coding Tangible

Yes, lots of coding takes place on a computer screen, and, yes, lots of coding resources are on the computer and the Internet, too. This can be a positive because of how easily accessible coding information, programs, apps, and games can be. But it can also be negative. Young kids especially might be easily engaged by colorful patterns on a screen, but they may not fully grasp coding if they never seem to be able to fully engage with it.

However, you can make coding tangible, and this is an effective way to teach kids to code. The best way to bring coding to life for your kids is to use robotics kits. Suddenly, coding will become more hands-on as kids write code that moves robots around their own homes, not just around a computer screen. They see the connection between the coding language they’re learning and how they can manipulate a robot. Here’s our list of the Top 10 STEAM Robotics Kits for Kids.

6. Use Code Academies, Online Courses, and/or Tutors

If you find that your kids have questions you can’t answer anymore, or that they would benefit from a more structured environment, then it’s probably time to look for academies, courses, and tutors that specialize in coding for kids. Experts know the best way to capitalize on your kids’ strengths while helping them with their weaknesses.

Some of these are available for kids to take online, but others will be in person, so kids will be able to work with instructors and other kids as they learn. They’ll increase their skills in communication and collaboration as they work in a learning environment best suited to help them learn to code.

7. Bottom Line: Don’t Push It

There are a lot of benefits to coding, but it’s important not to force it on your kids. You probably want to teach your kids to code because you know that it will build their knowledge and skills and future opportunities, but if learning to code is your choice, not theirs, then coding probably won’t be much fun for them. In fact, it could cause them to dislike or avoid coding altogether.

By all means, if your kids are interested in coding, then provide them with resources and steer them in the right direction. If they just don’t seem to like it, maybe they aren’t ready yet, or they need a more subtle introduction through gaming. But don’t push too hard in either case, or you may end up with kids who won’t code at all.

At Makeblock, we believe coding for kids is important. That’s why we have the information and resources you need to teach your kids to code and prepare them for their futures. We’ll also help you engage your kids and make sure they’re having fun! Visit our website to learn more.