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Awesome-blogs Contributors wanted

Rapulu — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:02:20 +0000

Over the years i have stumbled on some awesome tech blogs while learning something new or updating knowledge on something forgotten, and over the years i tend to forget about them.

What if these awesome tech blogs by some awesome writers were documented somewhere and categorized by stacks so someone can have a place to check and see where others are learning from, this led me to create Awesome-blogs.

I would love people to contribute to these repo with their own awesome tech blogs or tech blogs they have stumbled on which was/is a great help to them. You might be helping someone somewhere without knowing.

You don't have to be a programmer/developer to contribute, this good for someone who is looking for where to contribute on github.

Error in timbu.com

Rapulu — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:38:31 +0000

Introduction

I am taking part in a Nigerian remote internship program (P.S: I am Nigerian), remember this earlier post?

Building my developer portfolio reality blog.

Rapulu ・ Apr 2 '19 ・ 1 min read

#beginners #career #codenewbie #personalnews

one of the task is to find a bug in Timbu site and blog about it in order to qualify for the next stage, so here it goes!

Found Error
One of the currency listed is not properly formatted, when clicked on doesn't change to the proper currency sign because there was an omission of a data-value attribute in the anchor tag.

Below is the error screenshot:

Below is the chrome inspect screenshot of the bug:

Solution

The solution is to add the data-value attribute missing in the anchor tag and its appropriate currency abbreviation value.

Building my developer portfolio reality blog.

Rapulu — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:30:52 +0000

This year i made a resolution to build my online portfolio and i hope before the year ends i would write How I Got My First Dream Remote Job article.

I have come to the realization that no matter how introverted you are you might end up not achieving a lot or anything if you don't put yourself out there, unfortunately i fell into this group. I am a lover of tech, a developer for quite a long time and yet i cannot point out one successful project that i'm affiliated to. All the project i have had an opportunity of building is either shutdown or unsuccessful so how do you add that to your portfolio?

This year i'm starting all over again like a baby learning how to walk, i'm a beginner learning the best way to write code, how to work in a team, how to use the latest technologies in development, build my OS profile, tech blogging, basically i'll follow technology as it changes and hopefully get my remote job along the way.

I have decided to blog about my activities and experience every step of the way, currently am participating in two non-paid remote internship programs, tho one of the internship claimed that they'll be handing out cash price if you get to a certain level. Well, i don't care am there for the experience.

Stay tuned i'll blog about the internship every step of the way!

P.S: I will be bluntly honest with all my post.

Are you for or against testing for beginners?

Rapulu — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:37:14 +0000

So we have heard from -

Jon CalhounFollow

I get to teach people how to program with Go. How cool is that? 😁

Testing is Not for Beginners

Jon Calhoun ・ Mar 13 '19

#go #beginners #testing

and a counter article from -

Ben DowenFollow

I'm a quality hero, customer champion. Experienced software tester and newbie developer. Okay, so I've actually been dabbling in code for a long time. I've just not gone very deep in any language .

Testing IS for Beginners

Ben Dowen ・ Mar 14 '19

#testing #beginners #discuss

Let's hear from you
Whether you are a senior/junior developer, software engineer, or a beginner trying to learn TDD what is your view or advice on this?

Basic Understanding of Golang Interface

Rapulu — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:06:44 +0000

As a beginner in Go and someone coming from language that explicitly implements interface, it took me time to understand, I would also explain why it is said to be implicitly implemented.

What is an interface from golang point of view?

An interface is a collection of method signature(s) that an object (e.g struct or non-struct type) can implicitly implement. Hence interfaces allow to specify that only some behaviour is needed, the behaviour is defined by the set of methods.

Understanding Interface Method Signatures

The first sentence states "An interface is a collection of method signatures" if you are new to programming you might find this a bit confusing as it was to me at a time, so let me graphically explain what that means.

package main

import "fmt"

type Walker interface{// Interface type to be implemented

    Walk() string // This is a method signature inside an interface
    Bark() string // Another method signature
}

func main(){
    fmt.Println("Interface method signatures")
}

The code above declared an interface type with two methods signature to be implemented implicitly.

Explicit implement

In order to fully understand how an object can implicitly implement an interface, let's look at it from another language that explicitly implements interface like PHP.

A PHP interface

Now let's build a class to implement this.

Every method present in the interface must be implemented by the class. The class must respect entirely the interface like it was a rigid contract. This is an example of an explicit interface, wherein the class is stated what interface to implement.

Implicit Implement

We have seen how PHP explicitly implements interface, let's look at Go implicit way.
You do not explicitly mention if a type implements an interface. If a Type implements a method of signature that is defined in an interface, then that Type is said to implement that interface.

package main

import "fmt"

type Walker interface{
    Walk() string// This is a method signature inside an interface
}

//Non-struct Type to implement the walker interface
type Dog string

//create the method signature Walk
func (dog Dog) Walk() string{
    return "Dog can walk"
}

func main(){
    var dog Dog
    callWalker(dog)
}

func callWalker(w Walker){
    fmt.Println(w.Walk())
}

Run this code here

Notice I didn’t specify anything in the Type Dog about the Walker?

This is an implicit implementation of an interface, the important thing is that the Type Dog has a Walk method with the signature in Walker interface.

This was a bit confusing for me to interiorize when I was learning interface on Go but in the end, was probably the major factor to fall in love with this language.

I will stop here, trying to make this as short as possible so you don't get bored.

P.S Contributions are highly welcomed by anyone.

Golang open source for beginners

Rapulu — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:36:41 +0000

In my spare time I have been reading about Go, and going through video and blog tutorials to try to get some experience with the language. I've been doing PHP/Laravel full time for work for over 3 years, so that's my background pretty much.

I want to work on a project during my free few hours, and I was curious if anyone can recommend a project that would be open to having some help from an absolute beginner.

The biggest hurdle for me is even figuring out how the project is supposed to work.

Suggestions are highly appreciated!