-
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…
-
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…
-
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 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…