This is a guest blog post from Rick Manelius. Enjoy. Dear new developer, Can you name all 50 US states? How about their capitals? Every city in the US? Every town? Could you list the GPS coordinates of every coffee shop? Of course, you can’t, wouldn’t, and don’t. It would be absurd to spend the … Continue reading Avoid The Impossible Goal of Being a Know It All
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Learn a text editor
Dear new developer, As I mentioned before, the raw "stuff" of software is primarily text files. Actually, the foundation of software is ideas and information, but unfortunately a computer can't yet run on those. So you will need to create text files. Learning a text editor will serve you well in building software. Why a … Continue reading Learn a text editor
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