Ideas to Apps, lesson 1: "Starting to Build"
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"With an AI assistant guiding us, you don’t need to be a tech expert to get started. You don’t need even a plan to follow. You can just implement ideas as they come. It’s surprisingly easy."
Demonstrates the initial steps of creating an app by chatting with AI, focusing on user interface (UI) elements like a canvas, header with a hamburger menu, and a sidebar. Introduces basic web development terms (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) through simple analogies.
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Provides reinforcement that no prior tech expertise or detailed plan is needed to start creating apps with AI.
Outlines the starting point for creating a simple app for ideation and planning.
Describes the process of asking the AI for a layout, and adding UI elements.
Demonstrates the initial app and its basic interactivity.
Demonstrates instructing the AI to add a header with a hamburger menu, to include a sidebar to list slides for easy navigation, and to make the main area editable.
Employs a simple analogy to introduce the basic app components: HTML (structure), CSS (style), and JavaScript (functionality).
Explains "code snippets" and the need for the "full integrated code" to run the app.
