Set your reminders today! Join me as I show you how to build an AI Dating Mobile App from scratch with React Native - This comprehensive tutorial development tutorial covers everything you need to create a native Mobile App! 🚀 What You’ll Learn: ✅ Build with Expo SDK 55 - the latest and greatest with iOS 26 support! ✅ Liquid Glass UI effects that look absolutely STUNNING on iOS 26 ✅ Smooth haptic feedback on every interaction using expo-haptics ✅ File-based routing with Expo Router & protected route groups ✅ Clerk authentication - sign up, sign in, protected routes... done in minutes! ✅ Convex real-time database - no polling, everything updates instantly! ✅ OpenAI embeddings to match users by personality (1536-dim vectors!) ✅ GPT-4o-mini generating personalized match explanations ✅ AI Daily Picks - 3 curated matches every day with compatibility insights ✅ Real-time chat that updates the MOMENT someone sends a message ✅ Reanimated v4 for smooth fade transitions between profiles ✅ Location-based matching with expo-location ✅ Secure token storage with expo-secure-store ✅ Profile photo uploads with expo-image-picker ✅ Beautiful Material 3 theming with automatic dark mode ✅ Optimistic UI updates for instant feedback ✅ EAS builds for testing on your actual device ...and SO much more!

Ever caught yourself staring at your screen, not because you don’t know how to code… but because you don’t know where to start? Yeah — that moment when your code editor is open, your brain’s buffering, and Stack Overflow suddenly looks like paradise 👀 Here’s the truth: coding isn’t the hard part — problem-solving is. That’s what separates a “coder” from a “programmer.” And it’s exactly what V. Anton Spraul’s author of the book "Think Like a Programmer" drills into every developer’s mind: stop jumping straight into syntax, and start building a systematic way of thinking. Below is only a small fraction of it wisdom 💡 HERE’S THE GAME PLAN FOR THINKING LIKE A PROGRAMMER 1️⃣ ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN Don’t rush to code. Step back. Analyze. Write down what the program should do before touching the keyboard. The plan will evolve, but thinking before coding saves hours of debugging chaos later. 2️⃣ RESTATE THE PROBLEM If you can’t explain the problem simply, you don’t understand it yet. Talk it out — even to your water bottle (it’s called rubber duck debugging 🦆). Clarity is power. 3️⃣ DIVIDE AND CONQUER Break big problems into smaller, digestible chunks. Solving five little tasks is better than battling one monster problem. Think Lego bricks, not skyscrapers. 4️⃣ START WITH WHAT YOU KNOW Confidence builds clarity. Knock out the parts you understand first — they’ll light up the path for the rest. 5️⃣ REDUCE THE PROBLEM If it feels impossible, shrink it. Solve a smaller version first, then scale up. Complexity is conquered one layer at a time. 6️⃣ LOOK FOR ANALOGIES AND EXPERIMENT You’ve solved something like this before — find the pattern. Then play. Test ideas. Break things safely. That’s how innovation starts. 🧠 THE REAL TAKEAWAY Programming is less about typing and more about thinking strategically. It’s not the code that’s powerful — it’s the mind behind it. So next time you face a bug, a blank page, or a brutal logic puzzle… pause, plan, break it down, and think like a programmer.