Learning and Technology

I have been working in Software industry for about three years now. From the time I have been engaged in this industry, I have encountered men (no hard feelings) who discourages and thinks girls cannot be good developer(s). Is it??? Nahh not for me, for I believe that girls can be very good developers, I’ve met a lot of excellent female developers at work. Not denying the fact that guys can be technically more mature. But that does not make the girls less technical. They can be better specially when talking about the esthetics and User interfaces (UI). Mostly a guy’s main focus / point of concentration is towards the logic / underlying business and not on UI. And this is what I call totally opposite from what a Client thinks and wants. Being a quality engineer, I have met clients whose first impression are set on the UI more rather than how it will be functioning. Well this topic can lead to a big discussion so I will zip it here, what I will be posting today is a very interesting ...

Few months back I shared an article ‘Learn to code’ introduced by the team Codeacademy which lets you build and explore coding practices , experiences in an interactive manner. Today I am here to present another impressive learning site, sharing the same goal i.e. to teach programming online. Competitor Treehouse , teaches web design, web development and iOS in form of video tutorials and quizzes. So what’s the difference between both of them and which should you join in? The answer from my side would be yes to both, experience what is more comfortable and easy for yourself. Treehouse Home page Although I found Codeacademy much interactive as they present an editor to play with and at the time you are done playing, you found out that you were actually learning while playing. Fun isn’t it? And mainly because Codeacademy is free of cost hurray :) Well on the other hand Treehouse sound impressive as well but you need to be a paid user to enjoy the benefits of the site. Two pl...