programming

A combination of anxiety and nervousness followed by a sense that you might not have any idea what code is once the whole thing is said and

The idea that programmer's and engineers have these vivid lucid problem-solving dreams where they figure out a solution to a bug they've bee

The very first line of code that I ever wrote was back in 2003 sitting at home while still in High School on a PC that had less storage than

Have you ever looked at a piece of code that you wrote eons ago and wondered what you were thinking? Or even wondered if it actually worked?

As a programmer, having the right tools is essential to your success. A good programming laptop can make a big difference in your productivi

Programming is typically considered one of the rare dream jobs that can be done from anywhere in the world that has a decent internet connec

Programming interviews often times get a bad reputation for being highly stressful and overly complex when they don't need to be.

There are alot of assumptions made about what a programmer actually does for a living. Many of those assumptions miss the mark and are prett

Okay, there's more than one. Alot more. But there's one skill in particular that will help with all of the rest and that's typically the eas

PHP is used virtually everywhere online. In fact, 77.5% of all websites in the world are built using PHP. It’s probably the most popular pro

The new year is finally among us, and I think many can agree, that it took a while to get here. With this new start though, there is new opp

Every so often you will read about the next up and coming coding IDE destined to take over the development world and topple the reign that i

Every JavaScript developer loves using the console in order to test out and debug their applications. I do as well. It's just too convenient

Whether you're a computer science student, an aspiring self-taught developer, or a coding boot camp student, mastering the craft of programm

The technical definition of code obfuscation is to transform a working piece of code into a difficult to read and decipher logical equivalen

Try googling the same query and I bet you’ll see dozens of answers to it! “Should I read every answer?” Do you have enough time? What’s gre

A common question that I often is why do I use Visual Studio 2019 instead of VS Code? Good question. Complex answer. Let's get into it.The t

Just like in the Matrix, everybody falls their first time. You don't know what you don't know and what you don't know can sometimes cause th

Learning anything in life is challenging. Whether it's skateboarding, writing, painting or coding. You don't know what you don't know and be

Whether you just finished college finally after 4 years of hard work, or maybe you just completed a 6 month coding bootcamp, or even ma

A programmer is many things. Particularly at a company. Not only do they build the software that other people rely on, but they also act lik

If you remember your first day in high school, or any school, it's alot like that. You don't know anyone or where anything is. There's alot

Your eyes are typically under constant barrage and stress on a day to day basis. Everything from direct sunlight to poor lighting conditions

If you have been following the news lately then you might have heard that the current strain on our government websites has caused a massive

Another decade in the books and as we close out the year, we are all hopefully looking for ways to improve our skills in the year to come.If

Coding for the most part is a one person job. Many lines of code, many modules, but you can only work on one module at at time by yourself.

This morning I was sitting down sipping on my usual Peruvian light roast coffee. Getting that energy spike up and firing up my editor to wri

Just like you can't imagine a time without the internet, without coffee on every street corner and without this little black box in your poc

Many of you have been trying to learn to code for weeks, months or even years and as soon as you feel like you are getting somewhere and thi

A programmer's main job in their career is to write 'code'. To create variables, functions and looping mechanisms to accomplish some form of

The early stages of learning anything are one of two things. They are either exciting, as you are constantly learning new things and being b

The hardest step you will ever take, is the first one. The rest will just naturally happen as you gain more and more momentum in one directi

I've been a programmer now for the better part of 15 years. In between that time I've taken on other roles, such project manager, Chief Tech

Ideally, you should be familiar with mathematics in whatever field you find yourself in life. At least to the extent that it makes sense to

If you have been curious about coding/programming/web developing but haven't found the fortitude to begin the journey, or to take a free onl

More is usually better, right? More cookies, is noticeably better than less cookies. Unless those cookies are bad. In which case, nobody wan

The idea of clean code has been circulating around the internet for a while now, and as most things in life, the longer they persist and tra

A popular thought experiment that I often give my students who are early in their programming careers is the following: There is a basket i

I first began "programming" in 2002 during my senior year in High School. I chose Python as the language of choice, mainly because it was th

The concept of black-box modeling isn't anything new in the software developer world. It essentially comes down to hiding the comp

Learning to code can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavour for many. And while there are plenty of online resources out there today,&n

Many people see the Instagram posts of programmer's sipping luxurious coffee in bed with their laptops at an awkward angle that would not do

To those new individuals entering the programming job world currently, thoughts and ideas of high paying salaries, high tech sounding titles

MailChimp is a fantastic service for creating email campaigns and managing your email lists. And they offer a relatively robust API&nbs

We have more resources today in terms of documentation, guides, video tutorials, and how to's than at any other time in human history. We ar

So you want to sit on the beach with your laptop answering emails, dishing out for loops and making out like a thief while doing it?The funn

The programming world is relatively split on whether more focus should be placed on code readability versus code complexity. As someone who

Just recently I was in the process of writing a new blog post on Progressive Web Applications. In the post, I was going to document my conv

This question will have a completely different answer depending on who you ask. If you ask a front-end developer, then programming will rel

Regardless of the field that you find yourself in, landing your first job is one of the most difficult challenges that you will face in you

Recently I rediscovered an old project on my hard drive that had some potential to change the world (maybe). It was a year old project that

Technology is rapidly changing these days as the number of developers and companies increases at a surprising rate. It definitely makes sen

Most programmer's will encounter an infinite loop or two at some point in their careers. Whether it is intentional or not is entirely..

You just got your first programming job and you are both excited and terrified at the same time. And rightly so as software engineering p

If there is one thing that programmer's love to do, it's to code new and exciting things. They love designing them, implementing them, test

The new year is here once again, which means you will begin to do things that you didn't feel like doing last year. But at least you will a

There are main 2 ways that you'll be working in an office environment if you're a programmer. And that's either in a cubicle, which we've s

Code reviews can be either a fantastic tool to maintain a stronger codebase that is freer of bugs and issues, or it can be a stressful and

YouTube ads and Instagram posts make coding seem like a fun sticker filled evening with excellent cups of coffee and gorgeous scenery's of

Being a programmer can a fun and rewarding career. Particularly in the later stages when your experience has grown and you have more freed

As a .NET developer for the past decade it is a bit odd that I would go out of my way to talk up PHP and to try to create a case for using

There are a million and one ways to learn to code nowadays. Everything from a formal college education, to books, to free online classes to

Aside from the ever increasing job market in the technology sector that sees no end in sight, there are quite a few perks to being a softwa

It's hard to picture a coffee shop these days that doesn't offer WiFi to its customers with the purchase of a drink. It's become common pra

Many people will have you believe that language A is better than B, is better than C. And if you're new to programming, you might be inclin

Graduation season is upon us and with that, many fresh grads are leaving the warm shelter of A+ tests to the colder realms of "Yes, I have

Many people are getting into programming nowadays, for various reasons. Some fear that the machines will one day gain control and so they a

And not in a midlife crisis kind of way, in which you leave your family to take on Silicon Valley. That's for another post. But in a "what

Just recently I spent a few hours attempting to make an overly complex SQL query into a reality. From the beginning, it didn't really feel

If you're a data analyst or data scientist or work with data in some way, shape, or form, then at some point you've had to deal with random

I'm a huge fan of the idea that I can take my code and go anywhere with it. On a plane, on a train, and even in the rain. Except that for n

Just as an author sometimes requires a quick brainstorm in order to get his/her thoughts in order, so do programmers require something simi

A while back I wrote about the beauty in failing. It's almost like an art really. And it's unavoidable. Things will fail regardless of how

And not in a creepy mind control way. At least I hope not. But in a world changing everyone is in on it way. So if that sounds like a world

Like many office workers, I had a long history of being a paper weight for office chairs. And I've tried all the chairs in life, believe me

This is the year that you shed a few pounds, quit that stressful job or take that long awaited vacation in some remote island where your bo

The year is off to a fresh start, and as such, it is time for many people to make those new year's resolutions and to maybe get a new job.

There's this place that a programmer goes to at times. Sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for a few days. It's a good place. A place o

I've read one or two programming books in my day. Around 20 I would estimate, both in college and after. And I can't remember what's in mos

Needless to say, technology is alive and well in our present age and society. I grew up, and still live in, Los Angeles and I've done so fo

If you look at the top 10 healthiest jobs in the world, being a software developer won't be in the top 100. For obvious reasons. Mainly, th

Full stack developers are hard to come by nowadays, just ask any hiring manager at most companies. Even myself, working for a startup, I pe

Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of coding everything by hand. Using plugins or 3rd party libraries is always last on my list

I started programming in High School after I received my first computer. And today my watch has more RAM than that machine. But it was a fu

For the most part, programming is usually a one man/woman job. You get your task, and you fire up your IDE and you get to work. You miss a

This is a question that I've asked myself plenty of times during the past ten years, as I'm sure many people ask themselves at some point.

I've worked in several different companies throughout the years, and at home for a part of that time, and I've been comfortable and I've be

I've been a 'full-stack' developer for the better part of 6 years now, and it's been an amazing time. In comparison to when I was just that

No matter how many people learn it, and how many online schools open up for it, working on software is hard. Whether it's a mobile app, or

Code Monkey get up, get coffee, code monkey go to job... Before I start with my story, I just want to say that software development is a

This week was a historic week for computer programming, as our President became the first in history to "write" a computer program. He sat