How much coding knowledge is enough or too much?
Is spending the next several years learning various coding languages necessary to building/creating a complex web app that I have a design "vision" for? I know what it needs to do, I know the basics of how that will occur, I know how the draft app will look (that will all change as it goes along, I'm sure) - do I really need to acquire the skills to do ALL of it?
I have been told that the project will potentially take years and require a team (10-20) on multiple platforms to create it in it's useful entirety.
Yet, every time I reach out to ask for specifics on what coding, how many people, best place to start, in regards to hiring OTHER programmers/coders, I get incredible lash back that I'm not the one building it myself.
So while I'm learning basic coding, so that I can better understand what's needed now, and down the line, is it truly necessary for me to learn ALL of it - when I'll just need a team, at some point soon? Is it truly vital for the "visionary" to also be the "engineer"?
I'm truly interested in the answer.
I think it really depends, on what your role is. If you aren’t going to be actively involved in coding, and if your team is going to build according to your ‘vision’, then you don’t need to know it all. And not everyone has the skills to “do it all”, it’s more about being skilled enough to do the things that you’ve never done before. But your situation is different depending on your involvement. You can be involved in a part of your product’s development, or you can be involved in all of the product’s parts. You probably need to decide for yourself, how much are you able to do. And remember that you will always keep learning WHILE developing the product, so there really is no “know it all”