Software Engineering

In my previous post my previous post, I mentioned that I used free resources on the internet to learn and prepare myself for the internship interview. I want to elaborate more on that here, describe those resources and suggest a learning path that worked for me. The key takeaway of this post is that everything you need to know to land an internship or even a junior level job, is available on the internet. There is plenty of information, tutorials, videos, courses etc. for learning to build apps. You just have to find them, and start learning. ...

Back in 2017, I was still in college. It was boring and I didn’t learn much. I came to the conclusion that writing PASCAL and C on a piece of paper isn’t going to do much for my future, so I decided to try my luck in the real world. I lived in a small city in a small country in South Eastern Europe. There were a total of 3 (three) mid-sized companies in the entire city that employed all the programmers in the city. They also picked the best and brightest students from the college for paid internships and possible full-time employment. Obviously, I wasn’t one of them, so I took a different route. ...

Vast majority of beginner nodejs tutorials use mongodb for the database. For simplicity sake, this is fine for beginners. It saves them the hassle of dealing with SQL table relations, so they can just stick any data in and get it out to render it on the page. So, you need to persist some data After learning the basics of building apps with Node.js, you may decide to build an app on your own. The courses and tutorials you learned from taught you Mongodb. It seems like next logical step: ...