Hey mom! As you know, your code babies are starting their job searches now. I’m definitely feeling the stress of getting a job, paying the bills, meeting expectations, etc. How do I keep my head up through this? And how do...
If you read my article “Git 101: Version Control for Absolute Beginners,” you may already be used to using Git for your own projects. Now, imagine you’re working on a project with a team of people, with multiple developers making commits...
Congratulations, you’ve made it! You’re starting your very first job as a software developer. Maybe it’s your first position in tech after a career change, or your first ‘real’ job after getting a computer science degree. Maybe all that time teaching...
Along with conditions, one of the first things programmers learn to use are loops–programming constructs that allow repetition of an instruction set. One type of loop that you’ll encounter on your programming journey is the “while” loop. In this article, I’ll...
As a beginner, you may have heard other programmers talk about ‘boxing’ and ‘unboxing’ and wondered what was going on. Did someone get a gift? Are they moving houses? Turns out, boxing and unboxing are programming concepts that have to do...
Remote interviews have become increasingly popular in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially with the rise in remote and work-from-home jobs. Remote interviews are especially popular for HR screenings and behavioral interviews, making it essential for modern job seekers to...
Imagine this: you add some code to a project, thinking that it all looks good. Then you run the program, and it blows up somewhere in the middle. Reading through the code, it’s not immediately understandable why the code you added...
When you’re new to a career–or even just to a job–it’s common to feel like you don’t belong, or that you don’t have the skills or knowledge to succeed. This feeling is known as “imposter syndrome,” and it can be debilitating...
How to declare a variable is often the first thing you learn in computer programming. After that, a lot of courses and instructors see fit to let you know computers can do math, and ask you to do things like, “declare...
When just starting out, I’ve had multiple students ask me how to ‘start’ a side project–but by ‘start’, they really mean ‘how do I organize my files’? Although modern IDEs and programming languages scaffold quite a bit of structure for new...
