Software engineering and personal development

Month: December 2018

Resources to get ideas for new small programming projects that you can work on

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One of the best ways to learn something new is to apply what you are trying to learn, as you get to deepen the understanding and also retain the information for a longer period of time. Sometimes you need an idea for your first project, or simply an idea for your next side project that you want to work on in your free time, but you simply do not seem to have any idea. Maybe you are trying to learn a new framework, or a new concept and you want to apply it using your own implementation without relying on the implementations of the person that you are learning from. If that is the case, here are a few resources that I have just found that you can use to get inspired for a new project that you can work on.

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Learn each step of the solutions for Math problems for free using Symbolab

If you are trying to solve math problems and they seem easy, maybe you are doing something wrong. At least, that may be the first impression that you have, as they have been vastly proclaimed to challenge you and make you feel stressed and even a lot of times, forcing you to give up and just go back to see the solution. The reason for these can be that you may not know all the steps that are necessary to do be followed if you want to reach the desired result.  Fortunately, solving math problems can be simplified using a really cool web application that shows you the step to reach the solution.

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A short summary of how the Domain Name System (DNS) works

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Domain Name System (DNS) is something that we rely on quite a lot. You even got here to read this article with the help of a DNS who helped you find this article on the internet. Knowing what it is and the ways it finds the pages that are shown in a browser can be considered as something quite mysterious, but that does not have to be the case. The author of a lot of great open source projects, Kamran Ahmed, has recently published a short and helpful representation on the basics of DNS.

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The difference between libraries and frameworks with analogies

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Software developers use the words libraries and frameworks very frequently and interchangeably, but they are not the same. Koushik Kothagal, who is a really good programming instructor, with a lot of helpful tutorials, especially for Java technologies, has published a really great video explaining both of these concepts and is really easy to understand and follow.

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