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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 connect Visual Studio with GitHub on Mac!
Connecting your an IDE with your repository is a game changer. It allows you to develop code and have version tracking all in one application! At work, I’ve mainly used Windows and Linux. At home, I use Mac. This tutorial is for you Mac users who are coding on your personal laptops 🙂 In this…
Are coding bootcamps worth it?
A popular way people jumpstart their programming journey is by joining coding bootcamps. A coding bootcamp is a short intensive program where you go through a coding curriculum with other students and instructors. At the end, they may offer a certificate of completion or a way to network with companies who are hiring new developers.…
How To Generate the Nth Number of a Fibonacci Sequence | Coding Challenge
I will always remember this time when we were interviewing a programmer for our software team. His resume wasn’t particularly special so I didn’t have any expectations going into the interview. We asked him some basic questions and he did alright. We then gave him a coding challenge to see how well he thinks through…
How to Git Clone From GitHub via HTTPS and SSH [2 Ways]
There are two main ways to do a “git clone” from GitHub: via HTTPS and via SSH. These are just two popular protocols that computers use to communicate. However, each way may require a little bit of setup to get working in GitHub. What is “git clone” though? “Git clone” is a command that copies…
Why Internships Are Better Than Bootcamps
People are always talking about coding bootcamps, courses, and software job interviews. Many talk about how hard it is just to land a software job interview. What’s going on? Why are people struggling to get software job interviews? I think people are skipping a step in their programming careers, and that step is internships! I’m…
What Is Vim and Why You Need To Know It
When I was learning how to code at my university, they didn’t teach us how to use IDEs (Integrated Development Environment). They told us to code our projects with some really basic text editors. I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m really thankful for that experience. Coding with a basic text editor really sealed in…