 What's up team? It is your biggest fan, TheRealCasadero, and in this vlog, I'm going to be talking a little bit about what I talked about in the last vlog, and going on to answer a question that we got from a subscriber. In the last vlog, I talked about, instead of learning to code, learning to solve problems, now my thing, when I started out, and for me personally when I started out, I knew that I wanted to build websites, of course, and that led me to HTML, and that led me to CSS, and that led me to JavaScript, and then JavaScript led me to all these other stuff. What I see is for beginning developers, they don't know anything about anything, they come in and they're like, I want to learn to build applications. Somebody's like, hey, you can learn to build iOS apps, or you can learn to build Android apps, or you can learn to build desktop apps, but maybe they just need to build a web app, because you can build just about anything on the web. Well, okay, alright, I want to learn to build a web app. How do I build something like Facebook, or like Instagram, or like YouTube, or like whatever exists out there already? They go out and they find tutorials in the tutorials like, hey, you should learn View, or hey, you should learn Node, or hey, you should learn, name the framework and library that you went out to learn, and you realize that you didn't need to know all of that stuff. Maybe even after you learn that framework or library or whatever you realize, that you have no understanding of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript really work. There's some people who think they know how it works, but they don't really know how all of this stuff works. They don't even understand that the DOM exists. Take this element here, and you can make it disappear and make it reappear down here. There's people that don't understand that. They know how to do it inside of Angular, or they know how to do it inside of React, or they know how to use jQuery, but they don't know how to do it on their own because they don't understand the basics. Now, on to the question that I received. So in this question, it says, how does this tie in with the coding courses you sell and the 365 coding challenge that you talked about? Regarding frameworks at seven minutes, your own websites are built or all built using Teachable, which is a high level app builder framework. Have you any examples of apps you've created yourself without a framework that are available to use or download? It's a good question. Here's the answer. Alright, team. So I talked about solving these big problems and using our knowledge to... I talked about breaking these big problems down into little problems and then using our knowledge to solve each little problem. And when we do that, we create this piece of code that solves all of these problems. Now, in retrospect and thinking about it, this code may not be pretty. It may be what some people call spaghetti code. But to be honest, for the most part, that doesn't really matter because you are trying to solve a problem. And if the code that you've written solved this problem, then it's good. Like the code works. That's what we care about. Then after the code works, we can come back and we can make it look pretty. We can make it look nice and all this stuff. Or we can do that while we're writing it. For beginners, that's impossible to do because they don't even know what good code looks like. They don't understand any of this stuff. At the very beginning, they just need to understand the basic fundamentals and then how to build stuff. And then how all of these things talk to each other. And now they have this sort of base of reference and they can begin to ask these larger questions. Should I use an object or a function? I group all this stuff in this piece of code here. Or should I group all this stuff there? And so you can build on top of that stuff. Now as far as the courses I sell, I don't sell any courses. If you go to my website, CodeMarketSale.com or Code365StartupLab.com or TheRealCasadero.com The courses that you see, there are really courses, right? They're little tutorials and they aren't big and complicated. It's just the basic stuff, right? Like how do you use PowerShell? How do you build a simple web application where you can type something in the field and it updates the page while you're typing? And there's some other stuff there. And my goal is to bring more free courses. These courses for people that have come across me and they like me and they like my style. They like what I'm talking about. They like my energy. I motivate them or inspire them somehow. And now they're like, I don't know this thing and he knows this thing. I want to see what he knows about it. And now you can go and you can take this little tutorial where it's me, the person you like, talking about this thing that you want to learn. So that's the purpose of the courses. But again, they aren't for sale. There's other places you can go to find free courses. You can go to free code camp and there's like a whole curriculum or free code camp. The only thing that is for sale is access to the coding 365 startup lab. The coding 365 startup lab is me building an application online that other people can use, not download, but they can use like so you'll be able to go in and you'll be able to use all the features and functionality. If you are a member of the coding 365 startup lab, then you get to see how I'm building this entire thing. You get to see all the little applications that I built. I walk you through all of the code in tutorial form. So I'm teaching you how to build the thing that I'm building essentially, how to put it all together, how to put it online, how to market it, how to get paying customers to it. You get to follow somebody through the very real process of conceiving, planning out and building a real application that they plan to put online and market and sell as a product or service to people in the real world. And they're going through each piece of the code, each piece of functionality that they build and they're walking you through the process and showing you why they are doing the things they are doing and explaining them and breaking them down and giving you an understanding of how all this fits together. So at the same time, you can take the practices and the techniques and the tools and whatever and apply them to whatever it is you want to build. It's not just me writing code just to teach someone the code that I'm writing. I'm writing it with the vision and the intent of using it to power an entire business. And I'm sharing with you the entire process every step of the way in teaching you how to do exactly what it is that I'm doing. I've never done any of this stuff before. I could just go out and I could just build the thing and then I can do a course as an afterthought or I can do it all at the same time. And I figured I would be able to benefit more people by showing them what I'm doing as I'm doing it, giving them the opportunity to learn and I also get to generate some income from it. And this is, again, for people who are interested in that thing, they can pay to be a part of the Code 365 startup lab and be a part of this community of people that want to build stuff. Not necessarily people who want to go out and get jobs but people who want to build their own solutions to their own problems or build solutions to other people's problems and monetize those solutions. That's what the Code 365 startup lab is all about. Now Teachable, I use Teachable because it's super simple. It's a tool, it exists, you pay 30, 40 bucks a month, maybe $100 a month at the top tier. But somewhere between there, you pay this amount of money and you can host unlimited number of videos. So there's no bandwidth restriction, there's no nothing. You just pay your money and people can come and sign up. They can have an account, you can send them emails. Everything is organized like somebody has already done all of the work. Now let's say I'm a developer and I believe that my time is worth $75 an hour. That means that I would be paying myself $75 an hour to build something like Teachable. And at the end, I could possibly go out and sell it as a product or service or whatever. But I have no want or desire to build something like Teachable right now. So I pay for Teachable. Teachable costs like maybe $100 a month if you're at the high end. So I save myself hundreds of dollars by just using Teachable. But at the same time, I want to be good at JavaScript and HTML and CSS and building web applications. And I also want to build an application that generates income. So it makes more sense for me to pay for Teachable and then build this other thing on the back end. Now, if you're interested in code that I've written or examples of stuff, then you can go to my GitHub, www.github.com, forward slash the real Casadero. And there's stuff that I've written there. I don't consider any of that stuff to be significant in any sort of way, shape or form. It is basically websites and little and little piddly applications that I've written to do different things. Click this button in the background changes or add these numbers together and stuff like that. But so there's more stuff coming to the GitHub. But if you want examples there, then that's fine. If you want free courses, you can head over to code365startuplab or codemarketsell.com, code365startuplab.com and you can see the free stuff that I have there. And if you want to join the code365 startup lab, by all means, I want you to. So that's the whole essence. I hope that answered the question. If not, just let me know. For everyone, leave comments in the section below. And if you like me, if you like my style, if you like my charisma, you like my hat or whatever, subscribe to the channel, click the notification bell. So you'll be notified whenever a new video like this comes online. And this is what we talk about here. We talk about code, marketing, and selling. And I'm sharing with you my thoughts and experience and philosophy from a bunch of years in the military, a few years working at one of the largest tech companies in the world as a system admin slash junior, junior dev ops administrator and in a few years in the sales industry and in the marketing industry. So that is it, team. Thank you for hanging out here. I hope that was beneficial. I will see you in the next vlog.