HTML5 is one of the most important languages used by today’s developers. Employers looking for web developers will certainly look for candidates with HTML5 fluency. What is HTML5?  First released in 2014, HTML5 attempts to address the absence of semantic clarity in older HTML elements. In doing so, it introduced what is called semantic elements. […]

Recently, a group of 15 year-olds from across the world were assessed in various subjects.  The UK came in at #26 for Maths and #20 for Science.  This is a significant decrease since the last time this assessment was taken in 2009.So, it is purely a maths and science bent that will determine your success […]

To be a front-end developer, you will need to know CSS. In summary, CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets, but that term in itself might not help you. To understand just how significant CSS is to today’s website developers, you’ll have to look a little deeper. CSS is a web-based markup language used […]

If you are thinking of learning to code, then learning JavaScript is an excellent place to start. Beginning a secondary language is always going to be a challenge. For many of us, a programming language is precisely that. An unfamiliar vocabulary. Thankfully in this day and age, so many resources are available to aid the […]

GitHub is an extremely popular Git repository hosting service where more than 73 million software developers come together to store, manage and contribute to their own and others’ code.  From time to time, we all need advice from our peers or even our superiors. We have grown up asking the guidance of our friends, parents, […]

If you ever thought about getting into coding as a career, then there is no better time than right now. OK, so your parents always told you that the best route to success was to become a professional – doctor, lawyer, dentist, accountant. Yes indeed, these are all very worthwhile and you can indeed carve […]

In brief, JavaScript frameworks are a collection of libraries containing code written in JavaScript, making life a lot easier for software developers. Each JavaScript framework offers pre-built codes for different areas and different purposes in software development, saving time for the developer. JavaScript frameworks JavaScript frameworks provide structure for your code, so in that sense, […]

A career in coding is one that appeals to many these days. The demand for jobs has risen; as has the demand for courses, leading to coding Bootcamps popping up left, right and centre. This is fantastic, of course, for any prospective software developer; but also leaves the tricky decision of how to learn your […]

As the IT industry changes, so it the way IT is taught. It’s no longer essential to have a four year university degree and a postgraduate qualification to attain employment; you can train in a much shorter time period and still come out employable. Bootcamps are widely available now, teaching you the skills you need […]

Before you go down the route of studying coding, you might want to try your hand at producing a PHP-enabled page. PHP is one of the most widely used coding languages, used in more than 240 million websites as of last year. The more you practice, the more you will become familiar with the various […]