What exactly goes into choosing your first programming language? Well, maybe it is what your programming instructor chooses to teach in your CS101 course. It could be whatever your employer chooses to use for building their widgets. Maybe it is what all the companies in your metro are hiring for

So we have a good idea of where programming came from and we have chosen our portfolio as our starting point. Your portfolio can be whatever you want it to be, but you will need to have a few common elements as part of your portfolio. You will need a

This is such a basic, fundamental question, but I believe this is a question worth exploring. This is one individual’s point-of-view to help us better understand what a developer does in their day-to-day.

I believe one of the more challenging tasks in any aspiring developers journey, is deciding where to start? There are many roads to becoming a developer and I do not pretend to understand them all, but the dilemma of where to start is something most developers experience.

Sometimes as we are seeking to better understand a subject such as software development, it is helpful to explore the history of the subject at hand. In this article, we will look at important movements in history which contributed to software development today.

Pursuing a career in development without a proper understanding of the required skills, an understanding of the areas of development, or a grasp of the common pathways to becoming a developer, we set ourselves up for failure.

I find it fascinating to hear different developer stories as to how they got started developing software. It seems as though everyone's story is a bit different, but many of them share similar themes.

In the process of exploring what it means to go from ZeroToDev, I seek to bring clarity to software development, to bring positive change to the industry, and to inspire others who might be considering a career in software development.