In many countries people rely on prepaid minutes and data and these plans usually come with free access to FB, Insta and Whatsapp. If their minutes run out they could normally still use Whatsapp

In some countries, you can run out of mobile minutes or data but be on a plan that provides free access to Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram.

Wow! Snarky much?

Do you have any experience living in a country outside a "first world" country? Do you have any understanding how these "novel" technologies can be the backbone of people's business, livelihoods or even emergency services?

Sounds like you are in a comfortable bubble.

No I do not. And I’m sorry that the incumbent monopolist in third world countries is such a shit show that anyone has to suffer for their incompetence. Doesn’t change the reality that Facebook is the only game in town in the developing world because they worked very hard to make it that way.

Tell you what: I’ll be more empathetic to victims of the great Facebook outage of 2021 if you can be more empathetic to the mother I lost to covid after refusing to get vaccinated on account of memes she saw on Facebook. Deal?

I'm hoping coding will enter the mainstream and more people will learn to create software that helps them in their lives and work.

Being smart and having a specific mindset will become mainstream? Cool!

Being an entrepreneurial educator myself, it's so good to read about Khan's ideas and experiences. This article has inspired me to work harder and have a go at video delivery.

Hopefully I can make a positive difference in the world like Khan has.

I personally recommend learning Rails first, Angular will then make more sense.

Plus you will have the skills and knowledge of how to plug your front end design into the backend systems.

Both Rails and Angular are MVC frameworks but I suggest that Rails is easier for a beginner coder to learn, especially if you already have a high level of comfort with HTML, CSS and jQuery.

I recently spoke at Ignite Sydney and spoke about teaching the world to code :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYx5eEqVBE

So proud of my students. So many more applications about to be launched over the next week too.

It's great to see that in just 7 weeks, these guys and girl have come from being beginner coders to deploying cool apps.

They've been around for ages - they're called a blog :)

Maybe you're right. If someone would keep blog focused only on his main topic.

Hi Dilan

I'm happy to have it at Sydney Dev Camp which is on William Street, Darlinghurst. We already hold a couple of meetups here so can easily cater for another one.