How To Create No Code Solutions with No Software Development Experience
No code tools have become mainstream and are growing in adoption. These tools are empowering a whole new generation of software developers, from business users in corporate organisations to start-up founders wanting to launch a SaaS product.
Although no code tools make the functional tasks of creating software a lot easier, it remains difficult for users that have no software development background or experience to create high-quality software. For example, when implementing some form of business logic using a no code platform, what sort of logic and control structures should one use?
How then do we overcome this challenging situation? Well, I think this can be done easily by providing no code users with some key topics to focus on.
Understanding How Software Solutions Work
No code users need to spend a short time understanding the key components that make up a software solution, such as the user interface, business logic, and database. Next, they need to understand the most common types of software architectures.
Understanding The Software Development Lifecycle
Whether you are using a traditional coding stack or a no code platform, you still need to have an understand of the steps you’ll need to go through to take your idea from inception to production.
Understanding How to Design Software Solutions
Having covered the previous two points, aspiring no code developers should take a deeper dive into how to pragmatically design the solution they want to build and some of the best practices they should be using.
Understanding How to Design and Implement a User Interface
No code developers need to have the knowledge to design a user interface that looks great, provides the functionality required, and makes the experience pleasurable for the user. This is true for web applications, mobile applications, and desktop applications.
Understanding How to Design and Implement Business Logic
Having the skills to understand how to solve a real-world problem and translate this into a software solution design is a crucial skill to have.
Understanding How to Design and Implement Data Structures
The chances of a no code solution needing to store data are almost one hundred percent. No coder users should have the skills to being with an abstract concept such as customer or sales order, and define these in more detail, including how they relation to each other. Then being able to take these abstract terms or concepts and break them down, to the point at which they can be implemented as a data model.
Getting Started
You are probably reading this article because you already have an idea of what you want to build. So, how do you get started?
- Begin with an open mind, as some of these concepts may be new to you.
- A willingness to learn.
- The commitment to put these new concepts into use.
If you would like to go into more detail or need some help with this, I invite you to have a look at my online course, The No Code Blueprint. In this course, I delve into all the topics in this article and provide practical examples to help you get started.
You can learn more about The Node Code Blueprint by visiting https://nocodeblueprint.com
