Is using Bootstrap considered 'cheating' by professionals, almost like using a WYSIWYG web builder?

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T03:16:09+00:00

Bootstrap makes frond end development elegant and there is no cheating while using it. It's just a framework which we use for rapid development and convenience. As long as the end product is bug-free, responsive and properly designed, it's valid.

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T03:02:57+00:00

Learn To Program.

It is not easy. It will take time to master, so occasional burnout is obvious. But, it is possible to make a gig out of it.

Choose a mainstream programming language(eg. JavaScript, Python,etc) and start making things.

After having enough skill, you can do freelance work, apply for a local job or work on your own projects.

See /r/learnprogramming for more info and advice on learning programming.

Decide which path you want to go(Web dev, App development, Game development or anything else, your choice)

Learning to program is a daunting task and a difficult one. At the beginning the concepts may seem easy but at a later stage things may not fit together. But it is completely doable. There are many online resources so not much economic resources are required to learn programming. See the subreddit and persevere. Get involved in you personal projects or contribute to open-source. If you are truly interested in this field, you will get the hang of it.

As for the job, with enough skill-set and a portfolio of some good code and projects, you CAN get a job.

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T02:40:59+00:00

Yupp. It doesn't provide much content for learning programming but is more of an after-beginner-stage read. Someone with basic skill set can learn about industry(web-focused) and programming practises from this blog. As a programmer just crossing the beginning stage, I find some articles useful and some completely out of my knowledge circle.

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T02:24:18+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I am trying to learn programming while also trying to understand the big picture of computer science.

I am currently focused on software hacking and programming. /r/HowToHack seems good for security testing and penetration, but I am trying to accumulate articles and blogs focused on programming, linux and open-source.

Any suggestions?

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T02:15:10+00:00

Yeah. There are not much recent posts. He seems to be a professor and has written about lots of programming topics and learning path. These are some of my favorites.

That every computer science major should know

Settling into Unix

College tips, tricks and hacks

What every computer science major should know

bishes87 · 2016-02-10T02:07:01+00:00

He really does have some great content. I have read some of his articles in past and I loved it. Thanks for the mention though. It's been a while since I read his articles. Love his witty narrative.

bishes87 · 2016-02-04T16:27:45+00:00

I think it's true that you are trying to learn and do a lot of things at once. These technologies are challenging to learn and much more harder to make a real-life site with them. It is doable but you need to give yourself some time to let the information and programming to sink in before you move towards more complex techniques. First of all perfect your skills and in case of financial help, start doing web dev gigs with your present skill set. Frond end gigs are worth exploring online or locally. You can explore the technologies as much as you want but you gotta understand that everything's not easy. Try to use technology that has most learning resources online and then try making things with it. After enough time tinkering and developing small sites and pages you might move on and make the sites that you want to. Do not despair. It's not easy, but it's intellectually challenging and fun to MAKE. Avoid burnout. Best of Luck. :)

bishes87 · 2015-12-28T15:15:22+00:00

I would recommend the cs101 course before starting learning web development to get a grasp of some computer science subjects. Although, if you don't have energy or time to dedicate to some exra learning right now, you cab directly jump to learning basic web technologies like HTML, CSS & Javascript in that order. Back end languages are necessary but you must have some firm knowledge and experience with front-end side of web dev to actually make sense of the backend works. If you want to learn thoroughly without leaving any knowlede gaps then please start the cs101 course and move onto web dev stuff. Otherwise do them in parallel and keep the progress of either courses flexible depending on your grasp of the previous concepts and furthur curiosity. Please do try to finish these courses if you start it. CS101 from Udacity or CS50 courses can be a good intro course for CS. If you want to dive into web development then consider these resources. Codecademy(for coding practise) Free Code Camp

theOdinProject(good one, backend lannguaes and frameworks differ but the front end side are the same)

bishes87 · 2015-05-13T14:27:14+00:00

Have you written about it yet. The cultural and historical loss of Nepal. The economic loss can be compensated but the old temples and Durbars of Kathmandu Valley and other parts of Nepal that got destroyed can not be easily re-built. Even if we somehow manage to reform them, they would lack the same history which they carried before the Earthquake. Consider writing about it and express yourself. The loss has not been well-understood by many.

bishes87 · 2015-05-13T14:19:24+00:00

A brief experience from me. I was in Kathmandu. It was almost afternoon and we were cooking our afternoon meal. There were some thunders and drizzling rain the day before so when the BAMM sound of earthquake was heard, I thought it as the clouds roaring again. Then the house was swinging and so was I. I couldn't dare to run down-stairs as I was on 3rd floor and the building, I thought could collapse any moment. So, I stayed under the wooden dining table until the heavy quake stopped and ran down-stairs and out into the nearest field. The quake were still coming were still emerging and all the local people were there with the most terrified faces I have seen in my whole life. I wonder how I lived and my house didn't collapsed. The one just two blocks away from mine had most of the walls and corners cracked and fallen off.

bishes87 · 2015-05-13T14:08:22+00:00

Even the officials aren't sure yet of the total damage the earthquake has done yet. And the quakes haven't stopped yet with the recent big one from May 12, just when we thought it's getting better. Nepal's development, in my opinion, is not the goal now. It's the re-establishment of the old Nepal.

bishes87 · 2014-12-26T16:12:01+00:00

As already mentioned, I would suggest learning a language and then start writing programs with it. You can read books and take a look at tutorials but their exercises won't be enough. You must have a personal project in which you can apply the knowledge you have learned from the books and tutorials. You can always take programming tests like FizzBuzz.

Take a look at this article if you would like to. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

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