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DIY Web Development

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

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. […]

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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 […]

The Programming Pedestal

I remember like it was yesterday when I had one of my first encounters with a line of code. Other than the lines of code that you would see when you turned ON the Operating System of the computer. It was when I created a MySpace profile account. MySpace was the social media platform that […]