Why do so many leaders play sports — What makes a great manager? This question is the source of numerous discussions, expert opinions, and books. Nevertheless, we don’t have an answer yet. I decided to find my own, based on my professional experience (I’m the co-founder and the CMO at CodeGym.cc, the company with over 2.5 …

By turning rivals into partners, we can find strength in numbers — Today’s world looks a bit like Wonderland: what seemed impossible just yesterday will be old news tomorrow. New companies, products, and markets appear faster than we can say the word “change”. In these circumstances, it’s no wonder that most of us agree with the saying, “competition drives the market”. …

One problem that should be familiar to the majority of programming beginners who are looking to find their own path in the tech industry is the abundance of trends. The field’s boiling development constantly gives birth to dozens of new niches, technologies, and business models, which can be truly overwhelming. …

The mistakes of novice programmers, those who are just learning or just starting to work, are very similar to each other. Many of them can be called not mistakes, but behavioral features, stages all beginners go through. We as Java course creators are interested in this topic, so we interviewed…

Expanding into a new market is always a risk, especially if your niche in this market is already a red ocean and the market itself is very different from those you’ve already mastered. The Chinese market has always been a tough nut to crack for Western and European companies. The…

Is it possible to write programs on a mobile phone without experiencing pain, hatred, and powerlessness? When we created CodeGym, a practice-oriented online course for learning Java programming, we doubted it. However, times are changing, and technologies are changing. …

Dozens of programming languages serve different purposes, but still, Java stands out from the competitors due to some major benefits. Here are the top five reasons, why Java is so popular: It is an object-oriented, cross-platform language, which allows writing a program once to run it on multiple devices. …

It is said, “Your friend will swallow your mistakes, your enemy will present them on a plate”. I am definitely not your enemy, but I want to present you some mistakes, specific to each Java beginner student and I will do it right here on this blogging “plate”. Sure there…