This may be a dumb question to the community: Is it possible to go from not knowing anything about building Websites and Apps to creating Beautiful fully functional dynamic sites and Apps using Wappler? Obviously there is a learning curve, but is this learnable, or do I need to go to school first for this, pay for courses at the local university or online. It seems everyone in the community has a background in web development and/or some type of web/app design. Where I live, Miami, Florida, there is a very big open market for digital creators, web development, etc. I would like to get into the industry but it feels like I have to be Einstein to get going. I am disciplined and ambitious and I can learn most things. But can someone who knows nothing about any of this learn Wappler. It seems like everyone here is already a Pro and were involved in web development before they switched to Wappler. I welcome all feedback.
I hear you. I’m a complete noob too, from Europe, coming from a completely different industry, so clueless about coding, whether it be CSS or PHP.
Wappler, albeit a low/no-code tool, is very difficult to learn because its “unlimited” potential and features make it impressively complexe. You can do anything/everything with Wappler, which makes it the world’s best tool of its kind hands down, but the learning curve is very steep, more so than even AppGyver (this is for native apps only).
It is recommended to learn about backend and database first (if you intend to launch a dynamic website with remote data). There are nice tutorials about MySQL for database, which is a simple, approachable DB solution - to my opinion as a newbie. It took me one month to learn and build my 20-table relational database. While doing that, I’ve been in this community for over 3 months now. And I still feel overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge I lack and I need to learn.
The Wappler community is very experienced and pro indeed which is great as a limitless resource for info. But sometimes, it feels elitist, newbies’ problems may get overlooked/ignored probably because we have more boring questions 
If you have time and patience, I recommend you stick to it. Wappler’s tutorials and docs are weak but the docs are being redone now. I can only highly recommend this. Explained in a slow, patient way.
I just wish there were more people with the mindset to understand newbies and their challenges.
If you have specific questions, I’ll be happy to answer in a newbie style, because I know where you’re coming from, just tag me.
Good luck and keep faith.
Thank you very much Fred K. This is probably the most honest and real answer I have ever heard. I really appreciate your straightforwardness. I agree with you, I do believe that most on here just do not have time for us Newbies. And I get it, Veterans never enjoy training the “New Guy”. The docs are weak only because they explain from a place of needing prior knowledge. As Expansive as Wappler is they would do themselves a big service if they created documents and videos for people who are truly new to this medium. There should be true “Get Started” videos for static websites. Beginning from the absolute first step to the last. Then “Get Started” videos for Dynamic Sites/Apps. It should be done with the idea of the tutorial was created for people just getting into this and know nothing about anything. Wappler would greatly increase their sales. I know for a fact most people need to be taken “by their hand” when it comes to technology and because Wappler can be intimidating and overwhelming for many who are interested but need help. Once they, we get confidence then the learning curve gets easier. And the learning gets fun because we see progress. It’s like going to the gym for the first time. Lifting weights can be intimidating, you look around and see all these people lifting heavy weights and you’re thinking “OMG I cant do this”, but once you work out more and more, and see progress, your muscles beginning to form, six-pack coming in, you feel yourself getting stronger, it motivates you to work out more and more. Then you look back and say “wow, look how far I have come”. The same principle applies to learning most new things, especially something like Wappler. Wappler is so so very valuable and useful in the world we live in. And a great career could be had once learned and a lot of money can be made especially where I live, as in most places…But there a large group of us that for the most part just need to be “Taken by the hand” then at some point we will become Ambassadors for Wappler.
It might be an idea to get a grasp of databases and their structures before anything else. I would then look at HTML and CSS and also Bootstrap. Once you have a good knowledge of that, jumping into developing with Wappler would be much easier. @mebeingken’s courses are top drawer so I definitely echo @Fred_K’s recommendation there, too.
Welcome back to Wappler.
Our experience with Wappler is that because the Wappler team is small, their focus is not on onboarding people just starting with web development… Instead its built for devs who have some web experience prior. Doesn’t necessarily have to be a pro, but should know the basics.
And that is how the limited docs are designed too, for now. George suggests that changes are coming to docs.
As per your post, you don’t have any web dev experience. I had some, before starting 2 years ago, and I still haven’t used Wappler completely. I keep learning new things.
My suggestion would be to first start with some courses on general web development concepts - html, css and javascript.
There are numerous free tutorials out there. Once you get a hang of that, dive into bootstrap… and finally read up a little on sql, php, nodejs etc. to get a grasp on server side of things that are needed to build a dynamic web app.
Again, numerous free tutorials out there.
Since you have the visual prowess of Wappler, you don’t need to dive too deep on the server side of things initially. (When you do at a later stage, you will greatly appreciate the complexity Wappler is handling behind the scenes.)
Next, select an architecture (server, db etc) and build something small in Wappler. A small sample will be a great confidence booster. If you feel good, buy @mebeingken’s starter courses and you will have a bit clearer understanding of Wappler.
The community should help you figure out other Wappler part of things when you get to it.
Adding to this, am an accountant by education - started with webflow to learn basics of html CSS and design.
Stumbled upon Wappler and never looked back.
Learned sql along the way (had little coding exposure in my school - so everything wasn’t alien - but still difficult to grasp right away)
If you really want to do this then persist, learning curve is fun and easy to go about!
Of course I had massive support from my brother @sid whose edu is in tech and wappler community has been of great help as well.
Jump into it and you’ll get around it!
Good luck.