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How to Merge Conflicts in Git
When you’re coding with other people on a team, you typically work on different sections of a codebase. You’ll focus on one feature, and your coworker or teammate will focus on another feature. This is why Git is a really useful tool—because Git allows people to work in what are called branches. You can work…
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What Is Memory Management and Why It’s Crucial in Programming
Memory management is a crucial topic in software development, and that’s because it deals with how your program stores and retrieves data. We don’t have unlimited storage space or unlimited time, so we need to be careful about how we handle these things in our programs to ensure they run optimally and efficiently. When I…
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Struggling To Come Up With a Coding Project? Try This Strategy!
In my last video, I talked about six steps on how to plan your Capstone coding project. If you don’t know what a Capstone project is, it’s just a term that I took from my university to describe a final project that we would do at the end of our semesters to showcase all the…
Is it worth it to learn how to program?
In this modern digital era, programming and programmers have become more and more crucial to building anything in this world. I personally have witnessed many of my friends change career paths towards programming. Some have switched for better pay and some for a less strenuous job. I also see a ton of people online learning…
Can I learn how to program?
Landing a programming job is the dream for many people these days. It provides a good work life balance. On top of that, it does sound cool and fun to build and use an application, but is it too hard? Does it take a particular kind of person to be a programmer? Maybe you are…
3 myths about programming jobs
For those who aspire to have a programming job, there’s a lot of speculation about what programming jobs are like. I see many questions online and even had my own guesses when I was still a student about what work life would be like. Maybe you are wondering how much skill is needed to land…
Which programming language should I learn first?
Ahhh…one of the first questions everyone asks when they want to get into programming. I see this question a lot online and it is totally understandable. Many aspiring programmers don’t know what’s out there and what the main purpose is for each language. Also, they may not see much of a difference between each of…
Why you should learn C
C is one of the big names in the programming world. Created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie, this programming language has a long history and a continuing legacy that continues to this day. Much of the digital world has been built in C and even many popular languages like Python, Java, and JavaScript have been…
C tutorial: How to store different types of data in a program
In essence, all that a program does is take in data, process it, and give it to you in a processed format that you want. For example, YouTube takes in video data from one person and makes it available to many people. Video editing programs take raw video data and allows editors to edit the…