Why Vibe Coding is Making You Worse
AI Can Write Code… But It Can’t Think Like You Recently at my work, I was coding a GUI in C#. And I thought this was a good time to start using ChatGPT to help me write my code because it got me about 70% of the way there. But what I noticed was it…
Why You’re Stuck in Coding Tutorials (and how to get unstuck)
I recently got an email from a subscriber who just graduated with an engineering degree. He can code in MATLAB, Python, and R, and he can ace any coding class. But he shared something interesting that I hear from developers every day. He said that every time he starts a new software project, he feels…
What 13 Years of Engineering Taught Me (That My Degree Didn’t)
When I first started writing software, I thought the goal was just to get the code to work. If it compiled and if it passed all my tests, then I was done. But as I got more experienced in the professional world and as I started working with different code bases, I started to realize…
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…
Top 5 C Functions Every Beginner Programmer Must Learn
Happy New Year! Today we’re going to talk about the top five functions that every beginner programmer must learn. It doesn’t matter which programming language you’re focusing on—whether it’s Java, Python, C, C++, or whatever programming language you’re learning—every beginner programmer should know these five C programming functions. The real reason why I believe every…
Why Building a Capstone Project is Key for Beginner Software Developers
If you’re at the beginning of your programming journey or you’re just starting to learn how to code, I recommend that you start thinking about building a Capstone project. If you don’t know what a Capstone project is, it’s a term I took from my university. It refers to a project we would build at…
How to Plan a Beginner-Friendly Coding Capstone Project
In my last video, I talked about why every beginner programmer should start building their capstone project as soon as possible. If you haven’t seen that video, be sure to check it out. In case you don’t know what a capstone project is, it’s a term I took from my university, where we built a…
Struggling To Come Up With a Coding Project? Try This Strategy!
In my last video, I talked about six steps on how to plan your Capstone coding project. If you don’t know what a Capstone project is, it’s just a term that I took from my university to describe a final project that we would do at the end of our semesters to showcase all the…
What Is Memory Management and Why It’s Crucial in Programming
Memory management is a crucial topic in software development, and that’s because it deals with how your program stores and retrieves data. We don’t have unlimited storage space or unlimited time, so we need to be careful about how we handle these things in our programs to ensure they run optimally and efficiently. When I…