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TastyFriedPussy:
I'll be getting a laptop soon for web development but it doesn't come with an ssd drive... I plan on running Linux OS on it considering it's more faster and light weight than windows.. Now my question is this.

I want my laptop to be fast as possible but I can't afford an ssd(freaking expensive). will running Linux instead of windows on an HDD laptop make the laptop any faster? until I'm ready to get an ssd?

Note: my laptop's spec's not that bad
I5 3rd gen
8gb ram

Guy if you no wan cry, run from HDD

It depends on what you want to learn it for. Python is a very versatile language that can be used for a lot of things ranging from data science and analysis, machine learning, embedded programming, backend development. Hence, if your wish is to use it for backend development( with django or flask ), you will need to learn html and css, a basic knowledge is enough, else you don't need to.

tensazangetsu20:
I feel luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It takes a whole lot mentally to be good at algorithms and opportunities are always coming in tech. Imagine Amazon the other day announcing that they are coming to recruit from Nigeria and a dev gets an interview. How would you pass without knowing algorithms. Last year, a career fair was held in Lagos here for tech bros. More than 100 tech guys got jobs in Canada. It was all relocation based and the interview was all Algo based. A lady friend of mine who got a job in Canada that sponsored her visa attended this fair. It's not assurance of job but it's improving your luck. Even when I dont have any interview or anything I will always be prepared cause you never know when that opportunity will come and when that time comes you have to be ready.

word!

Sorry man...reminds me of one tech blogger on youtube tho, seeking to get employed by google...passed all interviews just to get rejected because there was no department available for him.

Rgade:
Don’t use the inline style object pattern, it will make your code really bloated and hard to read your styles.
The most straight forward way would be to have your styles folder. Where you would have a css file for every component or page then import that file into your react component using relative paths.
Also tailwind is awesome with react and really easy to work with.
The documentation is one of the best I’ve seen as well.

I guess you are not a tailwindcss fan.

shinemediaweb:
Broses error dey your codes
Check the bolded text - when you use arrow function for a method you do not capture this

true..I forgot. It's not that it doesn't work tho, but it become chained to the method in which it is being used.

Winningbot:
Honestly, I have dedicated almost a full day for this but I'm yet to understand it.

What's it's function in JavaScript

Can some spare few minutes to explain this for me please,

Please someone should help me

this refers to an object. E.g const Car = {
model:"toyota",
printModel: function(){console.log(this.model)
}
The this.model clearly indicates that it is an attribute of Car, hence when the printModel() method is invoked, the model of Car which is "toyota" is going to be logged. But be informed that if "this" is used outside an object variable, it will to the window itself. For more in-depth clarification, I will advice you to read "Mastering Javascript OOP" by Andrei Chielli or "Eloquent by Javascript", assuming you already have idea on basics and OOP doesn't take a full day to understand. It's quite broad and tricky.

Runningwater:
PHP?? I thought some big tech gaint like Google stop using it for new projects cause of security issues among others.

Even some tech influentials won't advice coders use it for new tech projects only on maintaining already existing infrastructures

That is always his advice. Always bullshitting other backend languages, and encouraging people to learn PHP. PHP for this our time

tensazangetsu20:
Django is bad market o.

He should now learn PHP abi

Think4Myself:
Thanks for your reply
To be safer, what type of styling do most companies use also what type do you use the most?

The second question, cant I clone(copy and paste) the whole create react app folder and give it another name so I don't have to be downloading everything everytime?

For me, I use all, randomly. But actually, I prefer styled components or css-in-js when building a next js project, tailwindcss or/and material ui for create-react-app and just vanilla css when not using any framework. And for company's part, every company has its own way of styling. That's why you have to have a strong background in css, then a knowledge of multiple css frameworks, not just one. They are easy to learn if you know your css well.

Think4Myself:
Also is there a way I can create a react app and install all the node dependencies offline without having to connect to the internet everytime I want to start a react project

Firstly with the styling, you can style your app various ways. You can use the inline style, you can create a css folder for each component, you can use the css frameworks, preferably tailwind, material ui or styled components, you can also use the css-in-js. Go for anyone that you find convenient and fast for you. To your second question, no you can't.

Just go and read Python Crash Course from the beginning to the end. Everything you need to know as a python beginner is provided inside that gem.

Google would have been your best bet, but since it's here, github provides hosting service for your projects and a means of managing them while git is, like you said, a version control system that makes you track the progress and changes in your code/project.

TastyFriedPussy:
@tensazangetsu20
@qtguru
@GREATIGBOMAN

I need y'alls advice

I've been learning JavaScript with my PHONE using grasshopper app for almost three weeks now for 5hours a day because I don't have a laptop now(would purchase one in two weeks time, hopefully) because I didn't want to make my lack of a laptop an excuse for not starting at all. And I must say, I've really learnt alot like, function declaration, arrays, strings, array manipulation methods, operators, loops, variables and many, many more. If you drop a Java script code now for instance, I most definitely might be able to tell you what it's upto...

But my problem now is that, learning with a phone can sometimes be really demotivating. Reason being that:

1) I find it hard to implement or practice what I'm doing so that it sticks to my brain, and thus I tend to forget simple things and find it hard to solve a simple JS code problem without looking at hints..

I've come to seek for advice, should I continue learning with my phone just to get to know alot as possible with it so that when I'm eventually ready to start learning properly, it would make things easier because I would have be accustomed with some things and some terms || should i wait till I get a laptop?

Function Advice (opinion explanation) {
Let answer = opinion + explanation
Return answer
}

Lol...nairaland and some questions ehn...Your last paragraph already showed that you're just seeking attention.

TastyFriedPussy:
Do I learn DSA first before learning a programming language or I learn a programming language before learning DSA?

Lol DSA no be moi-moi ooh

Barbsamiin:
Basics of HTML and CSS then dive deep into JavaScript.

Javascript for games??

Winningbot:
this is quite confusing sir. Pls can you show me how to link it correctly.

This is the folder

Then use the answer at d top of this post inside the head of your html.

chukwuebuka65:
change the 'type' attribute in ur head link tag for your stylesheet to 'text/css' or better still remove it entirely.

Wrong!! And na yu declare sey javascript is easy.

Winningbot:
Hello everyone, I don't know why I keep getting this error on my console when I try to inspect my webpage on chrome

That means the style directory you declared in your stylesheet link is wrong. Recheck your href attribute and input a correct file path.

SimeonOTC:
You are still a kid..shutup and keep learning..
Lol.. you are even learning oohh!, not like you are a pro...Oboy, keep learning to build your calculator and todoList, when you get to an advance stage, you will come back and delete this trash.

As in I shock...Javascript wey dey make people cry, na im wan person dey feel like god on top. He will soon be humbled.

chukwuebuka65:
I dont get it. is it the same javascript that I am learning or is there another version of javascript. If javascript is hard I wonder what they will say when they get into frameworks , libraries and data structures and algorithms . Pls programming is easy, if u understand the concepts.

Lol...for a beginner, javascript will be hard. Even the acclaimed-simplest, python, will look hard for anyone who has no programming experience. But for someone with a ready-made programming ground, no programming language is hard.

Laryfrosh:
The files are kinda much... I can send the GitHub link

Just the part you used the reduce() method.

Laryfrosh:
I have tried that but I couldn't get them in an array.
Guess that has got something to do with the structure of the code but I have not been able to figure out a better way to implement it...

Please, can you kindly take a look at the code?

Screenshot and let me take a look.

Laryfrosh:
Good Morning Devs

I have been trying to build my first project on react (a mini e-commerce app) and I am currently faced with a challenge which I have been trying to resolve for over 2 weeks now.

My challenge is summing up the total on the cart after pushing the items to the cart.

Here is the link to code on GitHub.

https://github.com/Hilary017/hillsMart

Please I will be glad if anyone can assist me on how I can implement this.

Thanks

Get them in an array, and use the .reduce() method. It will sum every prices inside the array for you.

Karleb:
Mark this answer as the best answer.

Thanks.

Your data keeps disappearing because you didn't retrieve the previously stored data in your local storage before storing a new data. You have to first retrieve d stored data in your local storage, spread it with the current data you want to store, then stringify.

tensazangetsu20:
The truth I wanted running away from frontend to Salesforce cause I hated DSA and I absolutely didn't wanna study or do any leetcode cause it was too difficult but after I got my Salesforce certifications, all the jobs I was applying to were asking me DSA and sending me DSA tests. Only one company sent me a take home test and the salary was lower than the job I had already. Omho niching down or not niching down better to know DSA except you are satisfied working a lowly paid job.

But in a forum on reddit I guess, people actually said most companies don't ask frontend engineers leetcode questions. And even if they do, they ask the easy ones. Most FE questions are always practical-based.

airsaylongcome:
I use the Pomodoro time management technique. Go hard for 25mins. Short 5-mins break. Do this 4 times (two hours) then take a 30-min break. All those 12 hours non stop na shortcut to early health problems. Back pain

Omo, that last statement, so true.

sixpathsofpain:
I've heard a lot of devs here say they practised for at least 5hours+ non stop when they were learning to code. And I'm like, "is that really possible with out taking breaks in between?"
Because me, I'm still learning the fundamentals of JavaScript and to stay more that 2-3hours straight, sitting, looking at my laptop, without taking a rest is really difficult for me. So is it really possible to code for 5-8 hours nonstop without resting in between or am I just been lazy

It depends though, particularly on the duration you set for yourself to achieve what you want to. Like for instance, before I started, I had plan to learn all the foundational structures of frontend, from html to react js, in the space of 6 months. So I was doing 10 hours per day, with the help of coffee though. Morning, evening and midnight. Could remember I got sick at a time, but I went back to my routine after recovery, we die there. I was able to achieve it actually, but I'm used to it now. Long hours of coding might be a normal thing for a programmer I guess.

Karleb:
This is why.

oooh oooh coolies!!!

Karleb:
Are you sure?

It might be because recent tailwind installations now comes JIT enabled by default but I still doubt this.

Besides, enabling jit is actually simpler than it sounds or look in word. It is as simple as adding a key and value to an object.

100% sure

CamelCase:
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Pay then a token, they'll download, crop and sent it to you.

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