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The Valley of Code - Flavio

Learn Coding with Flavio. I would recommend Flavio's handbooks for programmers, from novice to expert. He is a committed professional and I know his books would help you as it did for me. I will put a link to his site Valley of Codes to get the best and updated versions of his books. Below are some of the programming languages you can find on his website. PHP PHP (Hypertext pre-processor) is a server-side scripting language, good for back-end development. Very easy to learn and use, and in my view it is one of the best server-side languages a developer can go for. It is also cost-efficient too. Almost capable of any web development task you would want to implement. WordPress was developed with this incredible language. You would need to disregard claims that say php is dead. PHP powers a lot of the world's websites and the language is being updated to make it more powerful. PYTHON Python is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language. Its design philo...

Failed to download exported sql database from Xampp

 Hello Coder, this video would help you to successfully export and download your database file incase your browser says failed to download  . Carefully watch and follow the video, I hope it helps you out. HapPy Coding!

Tips For a Self-taught Developer

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Beginning I'm a self taught dev. I am writing this piece of article to self taught devs, but I.T's or computer science student / expert can read it too. Life as a self taught developer, is not pretty easy as it seems but what keeps us going is the passion, I mean the energy that comes from within.  Have a direction or a goal and be motivated First of all, people get exposed to tech videos, news, articles, movies and other software engineering materials that may cause them to be like; "hey! this gonna be quite exciting stuff to try", others too would be like; "Derm! I wanna be able to hack my school's system or work place database or anything that runs on a server or machine", "I would like to make lots of  money like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg  amongst others". Well it all good to get on board with the growing tech universe. But just before getting on board as a software developer, ethical hacker, data analyst or any area in the field. ...

PHP tips - Decoding html entities from database

PHP tips - Decoding HTML Sometimes a particular situation in system development may require that, a web developer saves HTML elements wrapped around data in the database row. Hence retrieving such data into the web page may appear encoded, with an HTML element. With the help of PHP  built-in functions like html_entity_decode(); we can successfully, retrieve the data wrapped with HTML tags, and have it well displayed to the user. Applying double quote (" ") Html tags that happen to require quotation marks, must be made double instead of single quotes (''). For example, HTML attributes require their values or properties to be in quotes, when these tags find themselves in a database, do well to make them double quotes, as this will prevent errors when decoding the data into the HTML page.

Do not reinvent the wheel

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Do not Re-invent the Wheel Hello Coder! good to have you on my blog. Today I, would be sharing my knowledge and experience on the topic; why developers should not reinvent the wheel . To anyone who may not understand the meaning of the topic. What it simply means is that, as a programmer do not try to develop systems that has already been developed by others. Whilst other developers may not agree with my point, I would only try to make sense of this argument. Imagine you are developing a regional planning website, and you have to include a map of that region on your website. As a developer, you would have to start from scratch to build this and guess what? You could probably not do it alone, you would need a whole team to build this complex system. You would need coders, designers, database administrators, photographers, even the help of the general public to give you the names of some places in the town. Developing such a system could take years and would consume resources. Me...

How to use the command-line (CMD)

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Get Used To The Command Line   Introduction Getting started as a programmer or coder would require that you familiarize your self with one of these basic tools. That black window on your desktop. Example of image shown below. This tool you see above is pretty powerful. This article may not probably dive into it full functions. But interested beginners can humbly learn more about it here  tutorials on cmd  which I highly recommend You go through as a newbie in programming, as this tool would help you in your journey of being a professional software developer. Knowing the cmd, would help you install various modules, libraries and frameworks for your projects you may be developing. Python developers mostly use the pip  with the command line and php developers mostly use the composer  also in the command line to install dependencies for their projects. This continues on and on... making it a very basic tool to get used to as a programmer. There are other cool stu...
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  You know developers mostly get rusty because they have been probably coding in a different language for a very long time, may have a reduced interest. Also, to newbies who may find it difficult to understand python, could try learning python by practicing with the turtle framework. The experience I have had with turtle just feels amazing probably due to having the chance to play with colorful graphics which helps to improve your mood. To learn Turtle please follow this link  learn turtle graphics

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