Huffman Coding Explained: Build a File Compression Program in C
If you want a project that truly improves your programming skills, building a Huffman compression program in C is one of the best challenges you can take on. Huffman coding is a data compression algorithm that reduces file size by assigning shorter bit sequences to frequently used characters and longer sequences to rare characters. The…
4 Criteria for an Awesome Coding Project
If you ask the internet, “How do I learn to code?” you usually get the same advice. Just build something. So you build a calculator. Or a weather app. Or a to do list. But after you finish, you feel like this person who says, “I can’t understand and can’t do anything on my own.”…
How Senior Devs Organize Their C Projects
From Amateur to Pro: 3 Layers of Separation for Your Codebase Does your project directory look like a flat pile of files? You know the look: logic, headers, tests, and binaries all fighting for space in one folder. In a university project, this is fine. But in a professional environment, this is called Source Pollution.…
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…