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How To Open and Run Code in Terminal VS Code
When I was first learning how to code, our university made us use the terminal to write, compile, and run our code. They didn’t even teach us how to use an IDE, so the terminal was our IDE. If you don’t know what an IDE is, it stands for Integrated Development Environment. Terminal was my…
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How To Handle File I/O in C: Read, Write, and Append
One of the coolest things you can do through programming is to read, write, and append information to files. Once you know how to do this, you can store data from your program to a file and receive that data at a later time when you restart the program. This is a foundational concept for…
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How to Stand Out and Land Your First Software Job
So, it seems that the general sentiment these days is that it’s really hard to land a software job compared to years prior. Before, you could go to a bootcamp and quickly get a software job—maybe even within a year. But nowadays, people are graduating with CS or software degrees, and they can’t even get…
How To Use the Debugger in Visual Studio Code in C on a Mac
Something every developer will face is a bug, and what better way to get rid of bugs than with using a debugger? What is a debugger? A debugger is just a development tool that you can use to pause your program at a certain line of code. Then, you can step through your program line…
Leetcode Breakdown in C: Merge Sorted Array
Today, we’re going to go through a LeetCode coding challenge. We’ll visit the LeetCode website and do the LeetCode 88: Merge Sorted Array coding challenge. I’ll write the code in C, and you’ll get to see the breakdown of my thought process as I tackle this challenge. If you’re unfamiliar with LeetCode, it’s an online…
What’s the Best Place To Start for a Self Learner? [4 Beginner Steps]
So, what’s the best place to start as a self-learner who wants to get into programming? I see this question asked a lot by people online. Maybe it’s because they have a lot of free time, or maybe they’re thinking about changing career paths. I remember when I was a middle schooler, and we all…
How To Use Arrays in C [C Tutorial]
When you’ve been coding for about a week or two, you’ll eventually start to realize that you need a data structure called arrays. What are arrays? Arrays are just a collection of data. Let’s say you have a collection of numbers in your program, and those numbers represent different test scores on an exam in…
Nvidia CEO Says Coding Is Dead: Time To Give Up?
So, the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, just released a talk about programming and how he said that programming is dead. He believes that everyone in the world will become programmers through the upcoming advancement of AI. He predicts the death of coding and says we should discourage kids from learning how to code. This raises…
How To Use GitHub Copilot For Self Learning The Right Way
AI has become really popular lately, and a lot of people are wondering if AI will replace them. In this video, I’m going to be talking about an AI tool called GitHub Copilot. If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s an AI developer tool supposedly proven to increase developer productivity and accelerate the pace…