Tag: coding

Being a Senior Developer is So Much More Than Just Memorizing the Syntax

May 30, 2021 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

You move to a new city and you don’t know where the nearest grocery store is.

You don’t beat yourself up — it’s normal. You just use Google Maps to find it.

After you’ve been there several times, it’s highly likely that you won’t need to use Google Maps.

Python also has a “for-else”

February 14, 2021 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

A MacBook with lines of code on its screen on a busy desk — Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash

Python is one of the most popular programming languages. You see posts about it all the time.

If you use it, you may have been seeing many tips about it all over the place: from tweets to articles, or YouTube videos.

Despite all that, chances are that you may have missed the following “for-else” which I also got to see for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

How To Learn Vim Using This Plugin Inside VScode

September 6, 2020 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Screenshot taken in my local environment

More than 3 years ago, I published an article about Vim that turned out to be one of the most popular articles that I have published so far, where I argued that Vim isn’t that scary and a list of resources that readers can use to learn it.

Now, I stumbled upon a VSCode plugin called “Learn Vim” that is intended to help you learn Vim without having to leave one of the currently most popular coding editors.

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

December 30, 2018 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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.