freeCodeCamp·3yIntroducing freeCodeCamp Press – Free Books for Developers
FreeCodeCamp has published more than 10,000 tutorials over the years. Now we're publishing more comprehensive books and handbooks that will teach you everything you need to know to get started with a certain programming language or tool. The freeCodeCamp community publishes shorter, more focused guides that aim to answer a specific question.
Community Picks·3yLearn JavaScript while Playing Games — Gamify Your Learning
Gamification is a technique of adding typical design elements from games to enhance the learning process. Gamification uses a simple strategic attempt to motivate and engage users while learning something new. This is done by leveraging people’s natural desire for socializing, learning, mastery, competition, achievement, status, or self-expression.
The New Stack·3yThe New JavaScript Features Coming in ECMAScript 2023
ECMAScript will be approved in July 2023, but four proposals for new language features have already reached stage four. WeakMap lets you extend an object with extra properties without worrying about creating a memory leak. Change Array by Copy gives developers new methods for sorting, reversing and overwriting data without mutating the array it’s stored.
DZone·3yBest Practices for Writing Unit Tests
Unit tests are crucial in software development as they aid in bug detection, code refactoring, documentation, and regression prevention. They allow developers to verify the correctness of individual code units, such as functions, methods, or classes. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.
Community Picks·3yThe Best Alternatives to GitHub Copilot in 2023
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool created by GitHub that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It uses machine learning to provide autocomplete-style suggestions and even complete code snippets to the developer as they work in their text editor. It can also suggest improvements to existing code and help with tasks like debugging and refactoring.
Community Picks·3ygit-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
Git-Sim is a command-line tool written in Python that allows Git users to quickly and easily generate images (or even video animations) illustrating the impact of a Git command will have on the local repo. The primary goal is to create and visualize the effects of Git commands, while minimizing interruption to the developer workflow.
DEV·3yWeb Scraping - A Complete Guide
Web Scraping, also known as data extraction or data scraping, is the process of extracting or collecting data from websites or other sources in the form of text, images, videos, links, etc. It is helpful when a particular website does not have an official API or has a limit on the access of data.
Community Picks·3ysrbhr/Resume-Matcher: Open Source Free ATS Tool to compare Resumes with Job Descriptions and create a score to rank them.
The Resume Matcher takes your resume and job descriptions as input, parses them using Python. The tool uses advanced machine learning algorithms to extract the most relevant keywords from the job description. The more similar they are, the higher the likelihood that your resume will pass the ATS screening.
freeCodeCamp·3yHow to Learn to Code & Get a Developer Job in 2023 [Full Book]
How to Learn to Code & Get a Developer Job in 2023 is the full book – for free – right here on freeCodeCamp.org. More than a million people visit this website each day to learn about math, programming, and computer science. The book is for anyone who is considering a career in software development.
Planet Python·3yPython in Visual Studio Code
The April 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code includes announcements, the availability of Data Wrangler for Visual Studio Code Insiders, move symbol refactoring with Pylance, the embedding of the Create Environment command in dependency files, the finalization of the Environments API for extension authors, and improvements to the Kernel Picker for Python Environments.
Codemotion·3yWhich Programming Languages Will Rule 2023?
This list will help you find the language that best suits your needs or aspirations as a professional. It doesn't have the intention to become an absolute ranking of the best or most used languages but to offer insight and useful facts to understand why the selected languages will continue to be important for developers for different reasons throughout the year.
KDnuggets·3yWhy is DuckDB Getting Popular?
DuckDB combines the simplicity and ease of use of SQLite with the analytical performance of specialized columnar databases. DuckDB is free and open-source software, so anyone can use and modify the code. It's embedded, meaning the DBMS ( database management system) runs in the same process as the application that uses it.
GoPenAI·3yThe Strange Death of Stack Overflow
From the founding of Stack Overflow in 2008 to the first quarter of 2014, the number of new questions and answers posted grew steadily. From 2013 to 2015, the growth has been stagnant, then accelerated from 2015 to 2017. From 2019 to 2021 was a sharp spike in the growth of new users.
Towards AI·3yGPT4Readability — Never Write a README Again
GPT4Readability is a powerful tool designed to automatically generate a README.md file. It can also suggest code improvements for your Python code repositories. The entire development of this tool costs just $1.50, which seems quite cheap compared to the $20/month ChatGPT plus users pay.
Geek Culture·3yCreate Beautiful Graphs with Python
Python's Matplotlib is a powerful library for creating beautiful, high-quality figures and plots in Python. Use this theme to create stunning, minimalistic plots source TLDR; Want to start making classy and polished charts like the above? Use the Rosé Pine theme!
DZone·3yWeb Application Architecture: The Latest Guide
Web Application Architecture is an underlying web application architecture that makes this process possible. Choosing the right design defines your company growth, reliability and interoperability and future IT needs. A web app architecture presents a layout with all the software components (such as databases, applications and middleware) and how they interact with each other.
freeCodeCamp·3yNew Mojo Programming Language for AI Developers
New Mojo Programming Language for AI Developers Mojo combines the usability of Python with the performance of C. It's basically an enhanced version of Python specifically designed for Artificial Intelligence developers. You can program the multitude of low-level AI hardware and no C++ or CUDA is required.
Amplication·3yThe Django Node.js Alternative
NestJS is a strong alternative to Django with a different set of features that make it very attractive to web developers. NestJS runs over Node.js, the canonical runtime environment for server-side apps written in JavaScript. NestJS offers a powerful set of decorators that can be used to define controllers, services, and other elements.
freeCodeCamp·3yPython Automation Scripts You Should Know
Python Automation Scripts You Should Know are all ready-made codes that can help us take care of many of our daily repetitive tasks. In this article, we will talk about some Python automation scripts that you can easily use to perform automation tasks. You can use it to quickly proofread an essay or a short article.
freeCodeCamp·3yLearn Web Development from Harvard University (CS50 Web)
Learn web programming with Python and JavaScript from Harvard University's CS50's Web Programming course. Topics include HTML, CSS, Git, Python, Django, SQL, JavaScript, user interfaces, testing, scalability, and security. Watch the full course on the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel.
