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How to Debug Like a Pro: Strategies for Beginners
When you’ve been coding for some time, you’ll eventually run into problems in your code or bugs in your program. Even the most experienced programmers encounter bugs. Bugs are annoying because you don’t understand why they’re happening, which can be frustrating. This is probably the most frustrating part of coding. However, when you debug your…
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Beginner’s Guide: Setting Up Your Coding Environment on Mac (VS Code, Git, & GitHub)
So, I got a new MacBook on Black Friday, and I haven’t done any coding on it yet. The development environment isn’t set up, so I was thinking of making a video about how to set up your development environment on a Mac. If you’re new to the channel, I do a lot of coding…
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Understanding Data Types: Why They Matter and How to Use Them
Data types are foundational to programming. They allow computers to understand what kind of data they’re working with, how to store it, and how to process it. For programmers, understanding data types is like understanding how different pieces in chess move. If programming is like a game of chess, then data types are like the…
How To Practice Coding in Google Sheets [Simple vs Fancy]
Not many people know this, but you can actually practice coding in Google Sheets! But why would you want to do that? 4 reasons… First, it’s fast access. Usually to code in other languages, you would need to open an IDE and sometimes I just don’t have the patience to open up Visual Studio or…
How To Read a CSV File in C
One of the coolest things you can do through programming is to process data from a CSV file. Once you know how to do this, you can get data from the internet or from other programs and write a program or application that processes that data for you. For example, in my programming guide, you…
My Top 3 Coding Projects for Beginners [No Coding Experience]
So which programming projects would I recommend for beginners? Coding projects are the fastest and most effective way to learn how to code. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, coding projects push you beyond your limits and help you gain new skills that help you grow more and more. Watching coding videos and coding…
Top Best Places Online To Learn How To Code
Where would I go online if I had no coding experience and I wanted to learn how to code? There are a ton of free resources online to learn how to code. They all cover a variety of different software fields and programming languages. You can find endless video tutorials. There are also websites that…
How To Create and Merge Branches in Git
How do developers collaborate on projects using Git? They use something called Git branches. Every code base in Git has a master or main branch. This branch is the latest and greatest and most up to date version of your project’s codebase. Whenever I work on a new feature or fix a bug at my…
How To Use For Loops in C [C Tutorial]
For loops are like a handy tool in programming that help us do things over and over again without writing the same code multiple times. They’re like a friendly robot that follows your instructions step by step. You tell it how many times to do something, and it does it, no questions asked. This saves…