Author: Brittany Gates
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CS50x C Programming Lecture Is No Longer Complicated For Me
I wrote about my experience watching the CS50x C programming lecture in a previous post. You can read it here, but I will give a TL;DR: The course’s reliance on custom files and functions hampered my learning. Thus, I stopped watching the lecture series and searched for a video to learn the programming correctly. After…
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YouTube University: My Experience Using It To Learn Coding
I discussed in a previous post about my usage of YouTube University to improve my coding skills. While I love the platform there are some pros and cons to using it to learn anything, including programming languages. Pros Of YouTube University It’s Free The biggest pro for this platform is that it’s free! It’s that…
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CS50x C Programming Lecture Is Unnecessarily Complicated
As I continue through Harvard’s 2024 CS50x course on YouTube (which I discussed in this previous post) I finally came to the lecture regarding the C programming language. I’m ready to go because I want to learn the language running Python. Also, I wanted to see how difficult it was to use the language after…
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Learning Programming From YouTube University
I’m currently learning programming from YouTube University. This is after using other online learning websites like Udemy and Coursera. I will go into detail why I chose to use YouTube over those websites in a future post. In this post I’ll cover the channels I watch/subscribe to, and what content I’m consuming. Learning Programming From…
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Quick Black History Facts: An Introduction
One of my technical projects I updated recently is Quick Black History Facts (which you can visit here). In this post I will discuss the following topics about this web application: Why I Created Quick Black History Facts The reason why I created this web application starts in 2018. That year I taught myself the…