This advice is useful for both beginning and seasoned software developers. There are some jokes intertwined here, too, so you might want to put down that coffee mug.

1. Java is to Javascript like car is to carpet

Hopefully, you know that Java and Javascript are two entirely different things, despite their names. If you didn’t, don’t sweat it; many beginners get confused by it.

So why are they named so similarly?

This is a quote from an interview with JavaScript creator Brendan Eich:

InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. …

More often than not, software projects are difficult to build from source. This can have multiple reasons, here are just a few:

• The project requires lots of dependencies.
• The project requires outdated libraries. Once you install those, other projects might break in turn.
• You’re running Windows or a Mac, but the software is designed to build and run on Linux.

For similar reasons, it can also be hard to run your software in production!

If you’re facing these problems, it’s good to know that there’s an easy fix. It doesn’t require virtualization but instead uses a principle called containerization.

What is a container?

A container is an entity that has everything required to run your software. It…

Dart is primarily known as the programming language for Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building natively compiled mobile, web, and desktop apps from a single codebase. It’s optimized for building user-interfaces and developed by Google. It’s used to build mobile, desktop, server, and web applications. Dart can compile to native code and JavaScript.

If you want to follow along with this article, which I highly recommend, you can do so without installing anything on DartPad.dev.

Are you still dependent on GUIs? You can significantly increase your productivity by learning a few basic shell commands. After learning these, learning more commands will come naturally — promised!

If these shell basics are well known to you, please skip this article and head to my follow-up article to become a command-line ninja!

pwd — return working directory name

Let’s start by knowing where you are once you opened your terminal:

$ pwd
/Users/erik

I’m in my home directory, where are you?

ls — List directory contents

Now let’s see what is in the current directory:

$ ls
AndroidStudioProjects     VirtualBox VMs
Applications              Desktop
Documents                 flutter
Downloads...

There’s a lot here because I’m a messy guy, so I truncated it a little. …

Why do we all love Python? For starters, it’s a beautiful and easy to learn programming language. Another reason: it comes with batteries included, meaning Python has many excellent libraries included by default. But in my opinion, it’s the 230,000 user-contributed packages that make Python really powerful and popular.

Earlier this year, I showed you the 22 most downloaded Python packages in the world. Although that was fun and I learned a lot, it was also a bit frustrating. Why’s that, you ask? Because I was not able to show you my personal favorites!

In this article, I handpicked 15 packages that I found most useful during my 10-year career as a Pythonista. …

Here’s a collection of the funniest programming quotes I heard on the work floor, mixed with some history and best practices as well. Let’s go!

1. Java is to Javascript like car is to carpet

I love this one because it summarizes the Java vs. JavaScript story perfectly. Most of you know that Java and Javascript are two entirely different things, despite their names, but many beginners get confused by it.

So why are they named this way?

From an interview with its creator Brendan Eich:

InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. …

Nobody knows when this pandemic will be over. It could be weeks, months, or years before life returns to what we called normal only a short while ago. But even though the physical world has come to a grinding halt, the digital world flourishes:

• Game developers have unprecedented amounts of online players and sales
• Online shops have seen increases in sales as people turn to e-commerce
• People spend more time on websites and social media — Whatsapp has seen a 40% increase in usage

The digital world does not suffer from pandemics and other disasters as much as the physical world. It is a fact that may sound obvious, but the implications are overseen by many. …

1. Create a game

I bet you never considered creating a game with Python. But why not? There are awesome libraries that will help you develop games. So let’s help your kids, your partner, or your colleagues get through this crisis with a fun game!

Pygame

Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries. Here are a few tutorials you can try:

• Making Games with Python & Pygame
• Game development with Pygame
• The official getting started guide (note: as of writing, the site is down so I linked to a “Wayback machine” version…