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Git 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started with Version Control
In this post, we’ll cover the absolute, bare-bones basics of Git, so you can get up and running as quickly as possible. Although Git is very powerful, and has a lot of commands and options, you only...
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Legit Logic: How To Use Conditional Statements for Beginners
How to declare a variable is often the first thing you learn in computer programming. After that, a lot of courses and instructors see fit to let you know computers can do math, and ask you to do...
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How To Use A Debugger
Imagine this: you add some code to a project, thinking that it all looks good. Then you run the program, and it blows up somewhere in the middle. Reading through the code, it’s not immediately...
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Boxing and Unboxing in Computer Programming
As a beginner, you may have heard other programmers talk about ‘boxing’ and ‘unboxing’ and wondered what was going on. Did someone get a gift? Are they moving houses? Turns out, boxing and unboxing...
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Unlocking the Secrets of While Loops for Beginners
Along with conditions, one of the first things programmers learn to use are loops–programming constructs that allow repetition of an instruction set. One type of loop that you’ll encounter on your...
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Git 101: Branching for Beginners
If you read my article “Git 101: Version Control for Absolute Beginners,” you may already be used to using Git for your own projects. Now, imagine you’re working on a project with a team of people,...
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Git 101: How to Fix A Merge Conflict
When working with Git version control, it’s common to encounter merge conflicts, especially when you are collaborating with other people. Merge conflicts happen when Git is unable to automatically...
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Getting Started with Arrays: A Guide for New Programmers
If you’re just starting out with computer programming, you probably found this article by searching “how to use arrays” or something similar. Arrays appear in nearly every programming language, and...
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How To Step Up Your Command Line Game with Bash
Photo by Pixabay Bash, or the Bourne Again Shell, is a popular command-line interface. Stephen Bourne created the Bourne Shell for the Unix operating system, and Brian Fox released his improved...
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A Quick Introduction to Date Comparison in JavaScript
Here’s a first: a CodeMom story from the workplace! I had a story to work on this past week that involved doing some date comparison to determine whether or not a user’s registration had expired. My...
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