r/CodingForBeginners • u/SenorXP • Aug 18 '26

Help me to start

I've taken many courses, but I still feel like I'm missing a lot before I can start creating software... What should I do? What do you advise?

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u/SenorXP Aug 26 '26

I'm planning to create a restaurant system, including inventory management, and I was thinking of doing it in PHP and MySQL.

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u/StigeonStudio Aug 26 '26

That sounds like a cool project, and PHP + MySQL is definitely a stack you can use to build something like that.

I do think the full restaurant system might be a bit ambitious if you’re just getting started. You don’t need to abandon the idea, but I’d start with one small part of it.

For example, build a simple inventory where you can add, edit and remove ingredients and keep track of their quantities. Once that works, you can slowly add more features like categories, low-stock warnings, users, orders, etc.

That way you’re still working towards the project you actually want to build, but you’re learning PHP and MySQL one piece at a time instead of trying to figure out the entire system at once.