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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 Data Types [C Tutorial]
I decided to start a programming series teaching you all the prerequisites needed to build your first app! In my programming guide, I mentioned the following prerequisites: I’ll cover all of these programming in concepts in C, which is a very classic language to learn. This week’s video will be about data types in C.…
How To Display Info and Data in C [C Tutorial]
Displaying info and data or outputting to a console is the most helpful thing you can learn when learning a new language. It gives you feedback on what’s happening in your program. Without this, you will just run your program and not know what is going on. That kinda defeats the purpose of programming haha.…
How To Use if and Else Statements in C [C Tutorial]
If and else statements are one of the most fundamental programming concepts ever. You find them in almost every programming language and tool. It’s so important for logic and algorithms, which is what makes programs useful in the first place. I will also be covering how to do this with int, char, and char arrays…
How To Use While Loops in C [C Tutorial]
While loops are so basic and important in programming. In simple terms, they allow your program to execute certain lines of code however many times you want or need. They do this based on whatever condition you set for it. This can be useful if you want your program to restart when it is finished.…
Code Comments: How to Use Them and Why?
What is a common mistake I see coding beginners make? …not putting any or enough code comments. And it’s understandable because when I first learned how to code, I thought code comments were pointless. Why would you put a comment in your code when you can just figure out what the code is doing just…
How To Use Visual Studio for Beginners
Coding can be a daunting task sometimes. How exactly do you start coding? After learning a little bit about coding, you’ll have to make sure you are following the right code syntax. Then, you have to find a way to build or compile your code so your computer can run it. Then, you have to find…