Undoubtedly if you are new to the computer programming scene you have been overwhelmed by the number of other people telling you how to go about learning a new language. These people might be saying things like "Go to Codecademy.com" or "Check out this online tutorial". But what many of these programmers really miss is that people should use multiple resources in tandem when it comes to learning. In this ...
Do you have a project that you were really excited about in the beginning but now your lack of motivation has you saying "Not that project again, bleh"? I think we all suffer from that once in awhile. Especially on those projects where we are not the lead or never thought of the project to begin with. How are we going to get excited about making a program to track ...
One of the first scripts people new to PHP (or any server-side scripting really) create is a login and logout form for their site. Often times beginners get a little confused as to all the parts necessary to creating such a thing. So I thought it would be helpful if I showed a really basic and easy to use PHP login / logout script. The script uses an existing database ...
I can't even count how many times I have seen someone new to the programming scene ask the question "I am new to programming and want to know which is the right language to learn first." Then of course there are a ton of veteran programmers that jump in there and start recommending every language under the sun and all sorts of ways to go about learning them. "No learn ...
Someone came into the Dream.In.Code forums the other day asking about batch renaming of files using Python. I thought I would work out the example for everyone to see and create something that they could add to their own personal libraries of code. Python makes this pretty easy to do using "os" and "os.path" but one tricky part I found was dealing with the method isdir() and similar functions which ...
Like me you probably have several YouTube channels that you like to follow. Maybe you enjoy that crazy cat video channel or the channel which shows stupid people doing stupid stuff. Either way you want to bring those favorite channels to the world in all their glory on your site. One thing you want to do however is combine those channels into one feed and display the feed on your ...
