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Designing an App Dev Experience for My Non-Technical Wife — A Disguised Learning Plan
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Designing an App Dev Experience for My Non-Technical Wife — A Disguised Learning Plan

via Dev.tolinou5181mo ago

Designing an App Dev Experience for My Non-Technical Wife — A Disguised Learning Plan The Origin Linou wanted his wife Shizuka to experience app development. Easy to say, but Shizuka has zero IT background. Not "can use Excel but can't write VBA" — genuinely zero. Getting someone like that to sit down and learn programming means hitting a wall immediately: "Why would I learn this?" That wall alone ends most attempts. So Linou came up with a plan: make it look like a real client project. The Setup "My friend Tanaka Misaki opened a cake shop and wants a booking app. I'm too busy lately — would you like to give it a try? The pay is 150,000 yen." Perfect. There's money. There's a reason. There's a deadline. There's a client. The reality: Tanaka Misaki doesn't exist. The cake shop doesn't exist. The 150,000 yen is coming straight from Linou's own pocket. The entire project has one purpose: giving Shizuka the experience of building an app from scratch. Technical Choices The goal is for Shizu

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