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What Code Should You Learn in 2016?

Why you should learn to code? Apple Founder Steve Jobs once said in an interview: “I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.” With the changing environment around us and the inclusion of computers in our personal space, technology and computers are now […]

What Is Programming And Why You Should Learn To Code?

Short Bytes: With the advent of new online opportunities, learning how to code is easier than ever. Read more to know why everyone should learn to code and grab the best courses to kickstart your coding career. Tons of people start programming because they fall in love with codes and feel excited around computers. They […]

A Programmer’s Dream: This Is What Your Code Actually Looks Like On GitHub

Short Bytes: Codeology is an online visualization program that allows you to see your GitHub project in front of your eyes. Give it a try here with your project and know how it works. Some developers from the payments firm Braintree have created an open-source visualizer that allows you to see all the programming projects […]

Which Are The Trendiest Programming Languages Of 2016?

Short Bytes: Do you want to know which are the most trending programming languages of 2016? From time-to-time, we bring to you the results of various indexes and surveys to make you acquainted with the latest trends. In this article, we are covering the results of a survey conducted by JAXcenter and its results clearly label […]

How To Get Pluralsight Courses For Free | 6 Months Subscription

Short Bytes: Pluralsight has one of the biggest collections of programming video courses. Here’s a simple way that tells you how to get a 6 months Pluralsight subscription for free. Pluralsight is among the best places to start learning beginner, intermediate and advanced level coding skills, all alike. Whether you are a complete beginner or a pro […]

11 Skills And Programming Languages To Become A Professional Web Developer

Short Bytes: Apart from learning the basic skills like HTML and CSS, the road to becoming a successful web developer needs some extra skills. These qualities set you apart from the others and make you a hot commodity among the big companies looking for ninja developers. Learning a tech skill and seeing your code coming to […]

TrumpScript – Two Coders Have Turned Donald Trump Into A Programming Language

Short Bytes: Participating in a hackathon and after a 20-hours long coding session, two programmers have written a python-based programming language called TrumpScript. This language is something Donal Trump would approve of. Take a look at the rules and syntax of the language and know more. Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown, two computer science students, […]

Dear GitHub, More Than 1000 Famous Developers Are Mad At Your Issues Tracker

Short Bytes: Annoyed by GitHub’s outdated Issues Tracker feature, a CloudFlare developer has written an open letter to GitHub, suggesting the website to address the issues. Notably, the Issues Tracker feature is very rigid in nature and lacks the ability to pass a feedback on the service itself. At the moment, 1192 users have signed this open later.  […]

Know The Best Programming Language For You By Taking This 1-Minute Quiz

Short Bytes: Your inspiration behind learning how to code could be anything. It could be a desire to become a professional developer to earn big bucks — or just for building something fun. “Best Programming Language for Me” makes this mammoth task to select and learn a programming language easier. We have talked about the importance […]

10 Most Popular Programming Languages of 2015 | fossBytes

Short Bytes: Based upon the data from Google Trends, fossBytes has brought to you the list of most popular programming languages of 2015. The list is dominated by languages like Java, Python, C, and others.  The learn to code movement gained a wave of great interest in the recent years. The year 2015 wasn’t any exception […]

Which Programming Language Is Perfect For Me?

Short Bytes: Learning the programming is something that you can do at your own terms – either in the best universities of the world or even sitting on the couch and learning on your smartphone. In this article, I’ll be telling you the perfect programming language that you need to learn right now, depending upon your […]

Coding Trends: The Top 21 Programming Languages of 2015

Short Bytes: RedMonk’s bi-annual programming language ranking is out and it shows that JavaSript continues to rule the web. Also, Apple’s Swift has made great progress in a short span of one year. For a developer, it’s very important to recognise his/her needs and learn the right programming language. If a developer knows the latest […]

Learn it Faster: The Entire Python Language in a Single Image

Short Bytes: What if you had to study one single page to get the complete idea of a programming language? In this article, I’m sharing an infographic to help you learn Python faster than ever. This is the follow up of my article The Entire JavaScript Language in a Single Image. Today, we are sharing The […]

A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

Artificial Intelligence is getting embedded in our lives on a regular basis in form of various speech recognition software, digital assistants like Cortana or, the famous deep dreaming robot of Google – that turns pictures and video into horror movies. All this intelligence comes from a software called neural networks. Recently, a programmer shared a […]

Watch People Code and Learn for Free on Livecoding.tv

Do you want to code, find a direct way to communicate with the like-minded people and get some type of mentorship? Are you facing difficulties like time and money constraints?  Y Combinator backed startup Livecoding.tv tries to address the same issue. Livecoding.tv was in beta since this February and it was launched officially last week. […]

How To Pick Your First Programming Language (4 Different Ways)

Learning coding from scratch could be a tough task and it could take years of hard work to master a language. So, here I am going to address the biggest problem a beginner faces: How to pick up my first programming language? Recently I came across with a very enriching infographic that addressed the same […]

10 Games That Teach Kids To Code

In this world 36 million kids have taken part in Hour of code activities, by helping them to develop their skill in technology use and that might help to get a job one day. Most of your kids wont be interesting in coding but these games can improve problem-solving and thinking skills which is important […]

Linux Basic Commands

mkdir – make directories Usage: mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY… eg. mkdir lhn ls – list directory contents Usage: ls [OPTION]… [FILE]… eg. ls, ls ­l, ls lhn cd – changes directories Usage: cd [DIRECTORY] eg. cd lhn pwd ­-  print name of current working directory Usage: pwd vim – Vi Improved, a programmers text editor Usage: vim [OPTION] [file]… eg. vim lhn.txt cp – copy files and directories Usage: cp [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST eg. cp sample.txt sample_copy.txt cp sample_copy.txt target_dir mv – move (rename) files Usage: mv [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST eg. mv source.txt target_dir mv old.txt new.txt rm ­ remove files or directories Usage: rm [OPTION]… FILE… eg. rm file1.txt , rm ­rf some_dir find – search for files in a directory hierarchy Usage: find [OPTION] [path] [pattern] eg. find file1.txt, find ­name file1.txt history – prints recently used commands Usage: history cat – concatenate files and print on the standard output Usage: cat [OPTION] [FILE]… eg. cat file1.txt file2.txt cat ­n file1.txt echo – display a line of text Usage: echo [OPTION] [string] … eg. echo I love India echo $HOME grep ­- print lines matching a pattern Usage: grep [OPTION] PATTERN [FILE]… eg. grep ­i apple sample.txt  wc ­- print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files Usage: wc [OPTION]… [FILE]… eg.  wc file1.txt wc ­L file1.txt sort – sort lines of text files Usage: sort [OPTION]… [FILE]… eg. sort file1.txt sort ­r file1.txt tar – to archive a file Usage: tar [OPTION] DEST SOURCE eg. tar ­cvf /home/archive.tar /home/original tar ­xvf /home/archive.tar […]