A bit of background: I'm a professional software engineer, and it's my goal to raise awareness within our fellow kababayans in the Philippines to get better with software development. I'm in the US by the way.
My biggest gripe is I see a lot of students who are still resorting to outdated frameworks, ρáíd tools (You got the money? Sure pay, but there are open source alternatives), häçked or îllégâl software for programming. I see a lot of kids trying to create their Inventory Systems, POS Systems, or whatever systems in Visual Basic 6 and MS Access. Why? Let me suggest a series of modern, open-source, free alternatives:
Building Desktop Apps
If you wanna build cross platform apps using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, why not try Electron JSYou do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.?
Some apps that are built in Electron:
Version control:
My biggest gripe is I see a lot of students who are still resorting to outdated frameworks, ρáíd tools (You got the money? Sure pay, but there are open source alternatives), häçked or îllégâl software for programming. I see a lot of kids trying to create their Inventory Systems, POS Systems, or whatever systems in Visual Basic 6 and MS Access. Why? Let me suggest a series of modern, open-source, free alternatives:
Building Desktop Apps
If you wanna build cross platform apps using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, why not try Electron JSYou do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.?
Some apps that are built in Electron:
- Skype
- GitHub Desktop
- Figma
- Flow
- Beaker Browser
- Hyper
- GitKraken
- Ghost
- WebTorrent
- #forbidden#
- WordPress.com
- Caret
- Visual Studio Code
- Kitematic
- Slack
- Atom
- VS Code You do not have permission to view the full content of this post.
Log in or register now.. It's open-source text-editor for software development.
You can use it for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Rust, HTML, CSS, etc - STS You do not have permission to view the full content of this post.
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If you go to their site, they have integration with VSCode as well
- Docker You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. Docker allows you to describe the infrastructure or server of your program as a code.
- Docker allows you to run multiple databases in your machine without conflict and it can do more than that. This is a whole different kind of beast.
- React Native You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. Deploy apps for Android and IOS
- If you are building enterprise apps or just any web app, go with Spring Framework You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
- Please learn to grow beyond Excel and MS Access for your database. There is a lot of open source and more powerful databases
- Mysql
- MariaDb
- Redis
- MongoDb
- InfluxDB
- Neo4J
- Postgres
- Cassandra
- STOP putting everything in databases. A quick Google for reference You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.
- Look at RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- ActiveMQ
- Apache Camel (not necessarily a messaging framework but it's an integration library)
- Spring Integration (same as above)
Version control:
- Start learning how to use git. It's like time machine for your code. You can go back in time and save everything
- Speaking of version control, you should sign up for an online git hosting. Why not try gitlab.com? You can create private and public repositories of your code for FREE.
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