Learning

You were stuck, and now you aren’t. Congratulations! Before you move on, it’s vital to stop and learn from it. It’s the best way I know to get better and spare your mind for increasingly harder problems. ...

If I could give one piece of advice to anyone learning to program: build. ...

Here’s a scenario: you’re applying for your first tech job. You’ve found a bunch of hands-on tutorials and you’re speeding through them. When you finish, you upload the code to Github and add a new line to the ‘Projects’ section of your resume. Maybe you even deploy the code as a production website. My advice: stop. ...

There is a glut of programming information online. You can’t read it all, and you shouldn’t, because much of it is outdated, wrong, or irrelevant to you. So, what is the signal in this noise? I recommend aggregators, blogs, pair programming. And I offer a gentle recommendation against tutorials. ...

I’ve been working on a development roadmap for my projects, and wanted to share my process. Consider this my recipe to turn an idea into software. ...

What is a skill one could learn to set themselves apart from other entry-level programmers? Testing. ...