Back in my day, and I’m not that old, programmers were a subset of people who were “really good with computers”. It would be hard to find a programmer who didn’t know how to use the operating system of their choosing far beyond end user level. These days things are a little different. Now we’re
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As a developer, you’ll spend a lot of your time writing code. Less than you’d think, as we’ll see in future tips in the series, but still thousands of hours. It pays dividends to master your code editor. A powerful editor, properly used, will provide a myriad of benefits. Benefits of a code editor
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A surprising amount of people in our profession are not familiar with revision control software. In the world of computer software engineering, revision control is any kind of practice that tracks and provides control over changes to source code. Software developers sometimes use revision control software to maintain documentation and configuration files as well as
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Over the years, I’ve toyed with the idea of writing a series of posts aimed at young programmers. [1] My advice will be aimed at aspiring programmers, students, and programmers who are just starting out.[2] I’m going to skip the part in which I motivate you by telling you why learning to code is
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