Awesome Articles you should read from Zambian Developers
Best 2018 Tutorials and guides
2018 has been an awesome year for Zambia Software developers, we had lots of meetups that encouraged and motivated many people to start the journey of software development, many people started writing good articles on tutorials and community as well and we are looking forward to seeing more of what 2019 will bring.
The following articles are in no order and I recommend to read them when you find time and share them with others.
In this article, I focus on the tutorial based articles that can help you learn one or two things in your development journey.
Firebase (My Journey starts now)
Written by one of the most active member of the developer and open source community in Lusaka Alu Shaks she talks about how she started learning and using firebase after a hackathon organized by Developer Circle Lusaka and she goes on to explain what is firebase and some good resources for learning firebase.
Javascript features you don’t want to miss(always bet on Javascript)
This one talks about some cool features of Javascript that you might find useful, most of them are features that were introduced in ES6, It was written by me.
Understanding and Using React’s Context API
You might be using Reactjs if you are not then kindly check it out and at least give it a try.
This article was written by me to explain on how to use the Context API publicly released in Reactjs v16, it is a good guide and intro on how you can share state in different components without re-structuring your project.
How I Mined Tweets to Learn More about A Zambian TV Show I Wasn’t Watching
This is probably one of the most interesting ones, Mbuyu Makayi wrote this article to explain how he used Data Science and Natural language processing to mine tweets about a TV show and make sense out of the data, If you are interested in learning about Data Science then this one is good for you and repo is open as well.
Installing Ubuntu alongside windows 8/10
This is another one written by Alu Shaks explaining on how you can get Ubuntu on your machine that has windows already installed, most of the times we encourage people to install Ubuntu without proper guidance on how to do that, the article best guides you on how to safely install ubuntu along windows.
Getting Started With The Spring Framework(Part 1)
This one was written by Thulani Tembo, I don't use Java but I feel this is a very good beginner guide on the Spring Framework, it is a step by step well-explained tutorial from the beginning to the end.
Isaac Miti wrote this article after giving an awesome talk on using git at a forloopZambia meetup, in the article he demonstrates how Git works and at the end, there is a handful of git commands, I highly recommend it if you are new to version control.
abednego mwanza is a good designer and in this article he brought out the best thing to consider when you are designing for your users, it is great read for every web developer looking to best communicate with their users.
Deploy Your Static Web with Confidence
Last but not least in this category is another article I wrote on how you can deploy your static app freely using surge.sh
Finally
Writing is not easy and neither is it for everyone but we strongly encourage to write more aside from your development work, it is a good way of giving back to the community.
kindly support the authors of these articles in different ways, share it with your friends and give them claps and most of all your feedback is always needed.
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