By coding app do you mean IDE (Integrated Development Environment)? That depends on your programming language of choice and the technologies you are interested in learning.

Coding is, indeed, amazing, and it is awesome that you’ve developed an interest for it at your age. Do you know what you will like to write code for? Building websites and/or web applications? Backend products for cloud platforms? Scripts for task automation? Database systems? The list is almost unending.

First, you need to choose the field that interests you now and start learning. There will always be an opportunity for you to swerve into something else or dive deeper into your chosen field. As a beginner, however, there are fundamentals that you must be familiar with in order to make an educated selection. These include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For those, you can kick off with a modern browser, a cool text editor, and some tutorials/books.

3 important questions you should ask yourself are: “What do I want to create with my coding skills? And how will it benefit me/someone else? How long do I need?“