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 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…