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DIY Web Development

Articles and tutorials intended to help self-learning beginner web developers.

A Morning in a Front End Developer’s Mac Terminal

Plays Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro song: 🎵Now, this is a story all about how this Front End Developer turns her terminal upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, sit right there. I’ll tell you how I use the Mac terminal throughout the day to be clear. 🎵 A Slack message popped up. […]

Programming

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Filtering with GraphQL and Prisma: What NOT to Do

In the past months, I have been working with the magic package of React, Apollo, GraphQL, and Prisma. I say the magic package because learning these four layers of programming, provides you with the skills required to create apps from user click (React and Apollo) to handle and save information in the database (Prisma). They […]

Programming

5 Reasons Why Women Should Consider a Career in Web Development

Internet is one of the most important networks that humans have invented until now. The fact that you do not need to be in the same location to be able to write, read, listen, and see information or digital products that come from different parts of the world, and instantly, is fascinating. But there is […]

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HTML as Easy as 123

Part 3 of the HTML as Easy as Series HTML as Easy as series intends to explain HTML as easy as possible. Each part of the series is titled after a phrase commonly used by Americans (English that I am familiar with). To do something “… as easy as 123” means to do something easily. […]

Life Passing By

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What the Heck I Did During My First Year of Writing Code?

Helloooooo !!! I turned one year of writing code full time sometime in the 31 days of August that just recently ended. Honestly, I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. I remember reading different articles from programmers about their first years of writing code, and be thinking: “When I turn my first year […]

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HTML as Easy as ABC

Part 2 of the HTML as Easy as Series HTML as Easy as series intends to explain HTML as easy as possible. Each part of the series is titled after a phrase commonly used by Americans (English that I am familiar with). To do something “… as easy as ABC” means to do something easily. […]

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HTML as Easy as Apple Pie

Part 1 of the HTML as Easy as Series HTML as Easy as series intends to explain HTML as easy as possible. Each part of the series is titled after a phrase commonly used by Americans (English that I am familiar with). To do something “… as easy as Apple Pie” means to do something […]

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How to Practice Problem Solving for Web Development without Writing Code

If you are deciding that making a career change into web development is your next move, you have probably researched the soft skills that you will need. Doing a quick Google search on soft skills for programming you will find problem-solving as one of the skills often listed. If problem-solving is a skill that reminds […]

Programming Language: The General Parts

Programmers and coders are writers for computers using programming language. They write lists of instructions. Computers read and follow the lists but they do not rationalize the given instructions. Computers just follow instructions without question. A computer understands Binary Code which consists of only 0’s and 1’s. That is the only thing that the computer […]

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Resources for Newbie Coders

I start this blog post with an important advisory note. You have to have a big desire to learn how to program before you sit down to learn how to program by yourself. Because you want to expand your career or business, or because you want a career change, o because… well, fun, wanting to […]