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Andrew Curnow
Andrew Curnow
1,954 Points
Posted by Andrew Curnow
Andrew Curnow
1,954 Points

Track/Techdegree recommendations?

I'm a non-technical founder who's used freelance developers to build a social android app on MySQL/PHP with an AWS back end.

I want to learn the skills needed to be able to peak under the hood and get involved in the on-going development.

Are there any courses here that will get me up to speed with AWS management? Should I start with PHP? Java? Or do the Python Techdegree and just retool?

Broad scope I know, any feedback appreciated.

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

I'd start by picking whether you wanna know about the frontend or backend first. Either way, you can take the Android tracks here to get involved with Android, and you can take the PHP tracks to learn about PHP/MySQL. Either way, it's not a good idea to just drop everything and rewrite the entire apps your developers made for you just because you wanna learn how to read the code yourself. AWS isn't something that's really covered at Treehouse very much (if at all, as it's a hosting service, and Treehouse teaches about code), but you can try out their Getting Started Guides to learn more about that.