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Starting my journey in new country and new opportunities

7 month ago i moved to Netherladns from Ukraine. Because of the war i had to leave. And now im trying to get office work here, i would like to try my …

What Are the Basic Concepts of Coding? A Complete Beginner's Guide

Have you ever wondered how websites, mobile apps, video games, or even calculators work? Behind all of these technologies is something called coding .…

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Hello IT World! Why I’m "Learning in Public" at sandycodesdev 🚀

Hey guys! 👋 My name is Sandeepa (but you can call me Sandy). I’m a third-year software engineering undergraduate student at SLIIT. If you are reading …

Why Most Students Never Make Their First Open-Source Contribution

A few years ago, I thought contributing to open source was something only experienced developers did. I would look at large repositories, thousands of…

12 Tricky TypeScript Questions That Separate Good Developers From Great Ones

12 Tricky TypeScript Questions That Separate Good Developers From Great Ones Short, sharp, and deliberately uncomfortable — 12 senior-level TypeScript…

File Handling in Python: Working With Real Data

So far, everything we’ve done exists only inside the program. But what if your program could remember things even after it closes? That’s where file h…

🏷️ DAY 5: Dictionaries

Welcome back, Pythonistas! 🚀 For the last two days, we’ve been using indices like 0, 1, and 2 to grab items out of our lists and tuples. But let’s be …

How to make your first Machine Learning project (as an absolute beginner)

Making your first Machine Learning project as beginner can be daunting. To be honest, I was daunted. There are a ton of resources online with differen…

Understanding Constructors in Java: A Beginner's Guide

Java is one of the most widely used object-oriented programming languages, and constructors play an important role in creating and initializing object…

Python Day Six : Python Lesson

Day Day Six Lesson : Python Casting Casting is the process of converting a value from one data type to another. Python provides built-in functions for…

Python Day Three : Focus & consistency

Day Three lesson : Comments in Python Comments are notes written in code to explain what the code does. Python ignores comments when running the progr…

Python click: Build Beautiful CLI Tools in Minutes

click vs argparse Both build CLI tools. click does it with less code: # argparse — 12 lines for a simple command import argparse parser = argparse . A…

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Common Mistakes New Developers Always Make & How to Avoid Them Effectively

If you are a complete beginner who just stepped into the world of programming, you may feel confused, overwhelmed and even want to give up at times. I…

The Unlikely Journey from Bricks to Bytes

I'm a builder. I taught myself to run servers because freelancers kept burning my money. West London, 2021. I was standing on a site holding a cup of …

Python Day Two : The Start of Real Coding

Python Day Two : Python Output & Print print() is a Python🐍 command used to show something on the screen. Example: print ( " Pure Pearl Foundation…

🧠 Understanding Data Types (The Missing Layer)

After working on input and output in Python, I started noticing something small… but important. I could collect data. I could display it. But I didn’t…

Python: Day Two – Variables, Data Types, and Putting Stuff in Boxes

Welcome back to Day 2, coders! 🚀 Yesterday we mastered the art of making the console say "Hello, World!" and survived the great indentation panic. 😅 T…

Building Strong Python Basics – Loops, Functions and Logic

My Learning Notes – Python Basics (Day Learning Blog) Today’s class was focused on basic Python concepts and some logical problems. Even though the to…

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Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is Day 4 of my journey toward mastering the MERN stack. For the past three days, I was busy building skeletons with HTML. To…

How Would I Build a Payment System That Doesn't Lose Money

This is the first post in a series I'm calling How Would I Build. I take a real engineering problem, reason through it in plain language first, then a…

Go Idioms I Wish I Knew Earlier

I've been writing Go for a while now, and somewhere along the way something shifted. My code started feeling less like "code that happens to be in Go"…

Why Freshers Must Build Real AI Products Instead of Endless App Clones

Stop Complaining. Start Building. Why Freshers Must Build Real AI Products Instead of Endless App Clones Every day, freshers complain: “There are no j…

I got my first PR merged in GSSoC 2026 and here's exactly what happened

I fixed my first real bug in open source at GSSoC 2026 I've been participating in GSSoC 2026 (GirlScript Summer of Code) and today I got my first real…

Nobody handed me a guide to the codebase. I learned by fixing tiny bugs.

Most developers learn to code by writing it from scratch. College, bootcamp, online tutorial — every path starts the same way: a blank screen, a probl…

Python functools: lru_cache, partial, reduce, and wraps

The functools module is one of Python's most practical standard-library gems. It ships a small set of higher-order function utilities — tools that ope…

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Gemma 4 vs Claude vs Llama: Which Model Wins for Devs

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 Okay, let me be honest with you for a second. I'm tired of AI comparison posts tha…

How I Went From Copying Projects to Building Full Stack Apps , My Honest Journey

Year One - No Projects, No Pressure My first year was comfortable. Just learning programming languages. No projects. No pressure. I had no idea what w…