A few years seems reasonable but when people go straight into rails and build apps in a few months without any prior knowledge I'm starting to think if i should go on that path as well.
The reason I'm asking is because I see people building apps after learning rails in 4-6 months which to me translates to skipping and/or poor quality coding. I might as well be wrong about it but it seems too easy judging by how hard it looks like...
There are a few possibilities but the easiest one is to come up with something that would radically change the way we interact with the web.
I say, the first company to create a True AI will dethrone any company on the market with ease. Or a company coming up with a product for a totally different market and dominating it and then after capturing users, offering features of other competing companies like FB is doing now. You need a really Big Buzz as well.
I am usually able to predict with a 95.4% accuracy some parts of the future ( no arrogance intended) so I strongly believe one of these things will happen in the near future.
I've seen some online courses like CS50 with C and MIT with Python. The question is why are they starting with those programming languages and not going straight to high level languages?
That is one of my main worries actually. I want to have a solid foundation and principles of how I should build something. Or is my thinking flawed?
A lot of people recommended me ruby but I feel like I'm loosing the foundation of programming and maybe somewhere along the line I won't understand something because I skipped it.
Thanks for the reply. Luckily I am not gonna start from scratch scratch since I have a little experience with front-end and I am "familiar" so to speak, with the programming "environment" but I never really dived into it (a very stupid decision).
So for:
1. Some people told me I should start with C and go on from there, while others told me to start with C# or Python. Am I wasting time with C? I've seen some articles here where some guys went straight RoR and managed to get an app running in months. I feel like I would skip important stuff if I do that. How important is the order in which you learn these? I think this is the hardest thing for me. To choose which one goes first on the backend side I mean.
2. So it shouldn't be a problem to go for an old mac right? I don't have 2K right now for a maxed MBP.
3. Well I figured I can do it on a 10-15h a day marathon for 4-6 months. So I can't do a YC demo for example?Something to show to investors or enough to express an idea?
4. I believe I got this covered although everyone is pretty busy these days:)