I’ve briefly covered this story before in my article: 11 Things Every Aspiring Developer Needs To Know, but it was such a huge part of my early growth as a developer that I felt like it warranted telling properly. …

My first few forays into the world of programming were confusing, frustrating and some of the most daunting experiences I’ve had. It can seem like everyone around you has a vast fountain of knowledge and started writing code when they were 8 so you have no hope of ever being…

Reusable code is the holy grail of development. If you can write something once and use it over and over again, you’ve just saved yourself valuable time. But complicated, single use spaghetti code seems to be the norm, especially among newer, inexperienced or self-taught developers. Making the switch to writing…

We all know the feeling, you are working on a new app and you need to do something you’ve already done 100 times before, but you can’t quite remember how you did it. You go and dig through your previous app for the snippet of code you need, but you…