Fascinatingly, over the last few years, the attention given to coding bootcamps, an alternative vocational model for intensive, fast-paced, practical learning, has grown exponentially. Curiosity about the efficiency of the model has exploded, and the question on the lips of so many involved in both traditional and non-traditional education, is of course, do they work, […]

What is Java? Java, not to be confused with Javascript, originated in California, developed by Sun Microsystems, a company founded in 1982 by Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNeally. The language was released in 1995 and has continued to evolve consistently in order to keep up with the times. Key features, properties and qualities […]

Credit woodleywonderworks  There is no one true path to becoming a good coder- there is no pill you can take, or shortcut you can exploit, or quick fix to eliminate all those irritating bugs that seem to be crawling out of the walls in your code. However, here are 10 behaviours and habits which will […]

You’ve just demonstrated your worth to a future employer with a perfect first interview. You coded intelligently and very casually aced the ‘Hello, World!’ test You made the two developers across the table from you laugh at a terrible joke (which you stole from Dilbert).  You complimented the baby picture displayed, accidentally calling one of […]

One of the most important traits to emerge over the last decade is how people have become so aware about the importance of technical literacy, in both their personal and professional lives. It is no longer a domain populated exclusively by software engineers and IT technicians, but for the current generation of young professionals, experiencing […]

To answer this particular question, you might imagine that you’re entering two determining factors into an equation. One determining factor is whether or not the coding environment, the physical and digital arena of learning, is adequately addressing the content and skills that will be vital to a programmer in the future. The second is entirely […]

The answer to that question is quite simple, and it can only be answered by you. Any limitations you encounter when you begin programming, are going to be self-imposed obstacles. At the very beginning, you shouldn’t be constructing your own obstructions, your own excuses, walls that you feel you can’t climb. You should be acknowledging […]

 Coding and developing software is no longer a case of a single programmer hibernating in his basement with his father’s old Macintosh running Windows 95. These days, the work is being done by like-minded, project-oriented coders sitting shoulder to shoulder, working collaboratively on group projects. Teamwork is vital to success as it’s one of the […]

When so much of today’s media emphasises the significance of visual appeal in web design, it is understandable that the developmental tools and programming languages that structure these websites are a vital skill to possess. Coding institutes, having advanced themselves enormously in the past few years as viable alternatives to the traditional educational model of […]

A UX Developer is a person who has the skills to learn the journey that a user takes when they are on the front end of a website and then design the best possible journey that a front-end user can take. Their goal is to ensure that a user has a pleasurable and easy journey […]