October is a significant month for programming. It is a time which the community — as a whole — unites in celebration of Open-source Software. An open-source project is a repository of source code which is publicly released under a specific licensing agreement, allowing developers the opportunity to contribute. …

Managing dependencies is a point of concern for most developers. When Go was first released, there wasn’t a package management system built-in to facilitate the process. As a result, the community built 3rd party packages to make up for not having one global solution available. …

Mac Edition — Environment variables store a PATH that points to a specific location on your local machine. In order to process a program in Go, there are two environment variables needed to house the compilation of Go source code. These variables are referred to as GOPATH and GOROOT. …

Learning a programming language takes research. Each one is merely a tool used to perform a specific task and different languages offer benefits over others which make it important to know exactly what you want to achieve before choosing an option. Artificial Intelligence is recommended with Python because of built-in…

Google Engineers — Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson — began the process of designing a statically typed programming language, in 2007, with the goal of creating a simplistic syntax to securely take advantage of multi-core processors. It was designed as a solution for unnecessary complexities in other languages…

Properties in React are immutable, read-only objects used to pass down data from a parent to its child component. Props facilitate the transfer of a piece of state or functionality you wish to make accessible to a sub component down the hierarchy. Syntactically, props resemble the way attributes are written…

The Document Object Model — Development is all about interaction. Two — or more — entities communicating a cause and effect, no different from a common conversation. In the real world, humans use a variety of interfaces as open lines of communication. They text message, email and every now and again verbally converse. Developers are…

A n Application Programming Interface defines the interaction between multiple software intermediaries, or so says Wikipedia. For someone with experience in building or interacting with APIs this is a precise description, although it may come across rather vague to anyone who is just now beginning to learn. …

One of the first analogies described to me about programming compared it to the likes of solving a puzzle. If you already understand the inner workings of building software or web applications, then you might agree with that sentiment. If you’re still trying to make sense of it all, you…