When you first start to learn programming and spend some time in the various communities, it can feel as if you just landed on an alien planet and now try to adapt to this foreign race by learning their complicated languages, adopting their way of thinking and understanding the correct manners. Everyone is talking in … Read more
“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” This famous quote by Steve Jobs has a lot of truth to it. Coding certainly improves your ability to think logically and make more rational decisions. But nowadays you could also say: “Everybody in this country world should … Read more
Health and fitness are not the most interesting topics for someone looking for programming tips and code examples, but nevertheless we have to keep our body and mind in check if we want to stay sharp and productive. Because besides adding years to our life, healthy habits also let us have more energy and focus … Read more
Programming can be quite a roller coaster. There will be times when everything goes well, the code flows out of your fingertips and compiles and runs how it’s supposed to. But there will inevitably also be situations where your program just doesn’t do what you want it to do and the error seems impossible to … Read more
The best way to learn programming is by getting your hands dirty and writing actual code. Reading programming books or watching courses is fine, but they become pretty useless if you don’t practice what you’re learning. If you ever tried to read a book about coding without actually trying it out yourself, you might have … Read more
We all want to be productive, because it helps us reaching our goals more quickly. We also want to be efficient, because then we have more time left for other things in life. Being efficient when working on a computer also means putting less stress on your body, by using the right tools to reduce … Read more
No matter if you are a beginner or already an expert, being a programmer means constant learning. Sure, when you know the essential concepts and the most important frameworks and libraries you can probably slow down a bit and enjoy the routine, but things change pretty quickly in the computer world and even completely new programming … Read more
Some of my viewers are computer science students and some are self taught like me. I studied business economics and found my passion for programming later in life. I try to be very transparent about the fact that I am not an advanced developer, but rather a beginner documenting his learning process. I haven’t worked in … Read more
Motivation is a tricky topic. There were some things in my life for which I had strong burning desire in the beginning, but after a couple of weeks my motivation completely plummeted and often I even ended up hating this particular task, hobby or project. This can easily happen when you invest a lot of time … Read more
A lot of my viewers are programming beginners, and I still consider myself a beginner as well. But I have already learned some things along my way, made some mistakes and observed other developers. In this blog post I want to talk about 5 tips for starting programmers that I figured out on my own … Read more