How to Learn Web Development in 2021 – a Web Developer Roadmap
There are some great roadmaps for web developers out there. But some make you solve a “puzzle” before even getting started, as there are multiple…
What is the Strangler Fig Pattern and How it Helps Manage Legacy Code
Any sufficiently old codebase eventually starts to contain legacy code. Architecture, performance, comments, and more begin to degrade the moment after they are written. Some…
How to Pass Data and Events Between Components in React
If you’re trying to implement CRUD operations using API endpoints, you might find that it’s hard to manage data across multiple components. Or maybe you…
Why Learning to Code is Hard – And How to Make it Easier
Are you struggling to learn to code? If you are, I want to help. So I have collected some tips from my personal experience to…
What is Full Stack? How to Become a Full Stack Developer
You’ve probably seen the term “full stack developer” before, either on tech-related websites or in job applications you’ve perused. So have you ever wondered what…
How to Code – Coding for Beginners and Learning Programming for Free
These days, there are a lot resources out there for learning how to code. And many of them are readily available online for free –…
How I Find Time for Coding While Raising My Newborn Son
I was in college when I had my first child. I was studying East Asian Studies and Computer Science. K was conveniently born over Christmas…
HTML List – How to Use Bullet Points, Ordered, and Unordered Lists
Listing items on a web page is a common task you’ll have to do as a web developer. You may have to list shopping cart…
How to Learn from Tutorials the Right Way
Project tutorials are a very popular way to start building your first few projects. But unfortunately most people go about it in the wrong way…
Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code – and How to Avoid Them
I vividly remember my first 6 months trying to learn to program. I was following along with a tutorial of some sort, not understanding anything…
The 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey – 65,000 Devs Share Their Salaries, Top Programming Languages, and More
Stack Overflow just released the results of their 2020 survey of more than 65,000 developers. Just like with Stack Overflow’s past surveys, I’ve combed through…