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Updated: September 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

Code School Review: Quality Courses Outweigh Cost

About Code School

Code School is an “online learning destination for existing and aspiring developers” based in Orlando, FL, and owned by parent company and fellow online-learning website, Pluralsight. Code School uses theme-based story lines and game mechanics within each course to effectively engage users as they learn programming. They offer quite a few free courses and projects so you can test drive their platform before subscribing to a monthly plan (which is actually a great price for how impressive their course quality is). We did a full Coding School review by going through their Python courses, keep reading to see our findings!
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Updated: July 11, 2017 Leave a Comment

Best Books for Learning Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a very popular and relatively young web framework that allows developers to spin up web apps extremely quickly. As a result, it’s become extremely popular with startups and the market for Rails developers has exploded over the last several years.

If you found your way here, you likely already know a bit about Rails and why you want to learn it. Before we go any further though, it’s worth quickly mentioning the difference between Ruby and Ruby on Rails for those unaware.

Ruby is a programming language first released in the mid-90’s that most people find to be extremely easy to learn and fun to code with. Ruby on Rails (sometimes just called Rails) is a web framework that is built upon Ruby that adds a lot of functionality for building a web app. It’s important to keep in mind these are two separate things.

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Updated: May 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Reasons Why Programmers Hate PHP

If you’ve spent any time around programmers, you may have noticed that many are vocal opponents of PHP. In many ways, PHP is the Nickelback of programming languages – somehow widely popular, yet widely hated at the same time. In my experience, most people who defend PHP as a good programming language don’t have much experience with other languages and thus have no basis for comparison. While PHP can certainly get the job done, there’s a lot of legitimate reasons people dread working with it – here are what I see as the top reason why programmers hate PHP.

1. Popularity Means Widespread Abuse

PHP is incredibly popular and widespread and has been for quite some time. Being the backbone of WordPress is one of the biggest reasons for its popularity – currently 28% of websites are run on WordPress, a number that has been steadily rising.

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