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How to Improve Your Programming Skills by Building Games

When most people think about learning to code, they imagine building websites or automating small tasks. Few think of building games as a serious way to improve programming skills. But creating even a simple game can teach lessons that no tutorial ever could. Games force you to think about performance, user input, structure, and creative […]

Mobile App Development with Dart and Flutter

Mobile app development lets you build applications that run on multiple platforms. Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a statically typed, object-oriented language. Modern mobile development requires understanding widgets, state management, navigation, and data storage. The ecosystem includes […]

How to Improve Developer Experience in Microservices Applications with .NET Aspire

Since the advent of microservices, development teams have gained the flexibility to deploy services independently, without coordinating with the entire engineering organization. Bug fixes can be released in isolation without full regression testing, and multiple teams can ship updates simultaneously, sometimes ten or more deploys a day per team. But we rarely talk about the […]

First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson [Podcast #194]

Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal arts, then worked as a teacher for two decades before teaching himself programming using freeCodeCamp. He got his first developer […]

The React Handbook for Beginners – JSX, Hooks, and Rendering Explained

React is one of the most powerful and widely used libraries for building user interfaces with JavaScript. From small components to large-scale front-end and full-stack applications, React gives you the flexibility to create interactive, efficient, and modern features. But learning React can feel overwhelming. With so many new terms, patterns, and frameworks like Next.js in […]

How to Build a To-Do List MCP Server Using TypeScript – with Auth, Database, and Billing

In this tutorial, you’ll build a To-Do list MCP server using TypeScript. You’ll learn how to implement authentication, persistence, and billing, to make the server robust and functional for real users. By the end, you’ll have a working MCP server that: Authenticates users with Kinde. Stores to-do data in a Neon Postgres database. Enforces billing […]

How to Parse INI Config Files in Python with Configparser

Configuration files provide a structured way to manage application settings that’s more organized than environment variables alone. INI files, short for initialization files, with their simple section-based format, are both easy to read and parse. Python’s built-in configparser module makes working with these files straightforward and powerful. This tutorial will teach you how to read […]

Concurrency vs. Parallelism: What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care?

In software engineering, certain concepts appear deceptively simple at first glance but fundamentally shape the way we design and architect systems. Concurrency and parallelism are two such concepts that warrant careful examination. These terms are frequently used interchangeably, even among experienced developers. But while they may sound similar and occasionally overlap in practice, they address […]