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CSV File Projects for Beginners: Easy C Programming Tutorial
If you’re looking for CSV file projects for beginners, you’ve come to the right place. These projects are perfect for new programmers who want to get hands-on experience reading, parsing, and processing data stored in CSV (comma-separated values) files. Working with CSV files helps you build essential skills such as file input/output, string manipulation, and…
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How to Set Up VS Code for C Programming on Mac — Beginner’s Guide
If you’re new to programming, you’ve probably heard of tools like Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. These tools are really helpful for developing code, compiling code, and running your code. They’re very, very powerful—really helpful for software developers. But if you’re just new to programming, it can be kind of intimidating and confusing. There’s…
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You’re Using Git Wrong – 3 Rookie Mistakes and How To Fix Them
When I got my first software job I had to learn how to use Git to collaborate with my team, and it was confusing and frustrating at first. But as my co-workers came by and showed me how to use it, and as they got me through some frustrating times, over time I started to…
Why Git and GitHub Are Important
Whenever I talk to beginner programmers and they tell me that they’ve never used Git, I suddenly have this urge to teach them how to use Git and just go over the basics with them. As a programmer with 10+ years of professional experience, I’ve used Git everyday to work with my coworkers and to…
How To Learn How To Code While Working Full Time
So how to learn how to code while working a full-time job, while working a 9 to 5? I’ve worked with a lot of people who have done this—who are working, and then they go home, and then they’re learning how to code in their spare time so that they could make a career shift.…
Is Coding for Me? How To Know for Sure…
You’re probably wondering if coding is for you or not. Maybe you’ve seen other people learning how to code, and when you look at them, they seem to understand the concepts really well and pick it up a lot faster than you. I see a lot of beginner programmers ask these kinds of questions, and…
How To Use a Debugger (In Depth Tutorial)
I remember when I was in university, my professor was teaching us how to use a debugger, and the debugger that he was showing us was GDB. GDB is a debugger that you can use with C. With this debugger, he was talking about breakpoints, pausing the program, and then continuing the program and looking…
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 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…