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Why Knowing Code Conventions Matters: Tips for Clean, Readable Code
Something you’ll realize when you start coding is that there are many ways that you can code the same thing. For example, when it comes to indentation, instead of using spaces, you can use tabs—or vice versa, instead of tabs, you can use spaces. When you write your for loop, your while loop, or your…
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Stop Watching Beginner Coding Tutorials and Do This Instead!
The best way to learn how to code is not by watching videos or tutorials, but it’s by actually coding something. I, and a lot of other people, call this project-based learning. It’s like learning how to cook—you don’t get better by reading recipes or watching cooking tutorials, but by actually cooking and then tasting…
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Pointers in C Explained: What They Are and Why You Need Them
When I first learned pointers in C, I thought they were very annoying. I would always run my program and then I would run into a segmentation fault error, and then I would have no idea why there was an error going on. It was just annoying to keep track of all the different pointers,…
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…