Beginners

Hacktoberfest is here and it is an awesome moment to contribute to open-source! However, Git and Github can be quite scary, so let’s talk a bit about the basics of these two extremely useful tools!

Versioning

Git is a versioning system that was designed focusing in code versioning. It basically helps us to handle file modification in an easy and painless way.

Github, on the other side, is a company that implemented a system that allows you to use git to version your code while storing the code in their cloud. But it is not the only company. Bitbucket and Gitlab are other examples of companies that have systems that allow storage and group interaction while using git versioning.

I just watched an awesome lecture about how to have a five-digit salary in Brazil by Bruno Ticami (Python Brazil 2013). Here are some questions and advises that he talked about:

Starting to contribute to an open-source project is always recommended to someone who is studying to be a programmer.

Hey!

On the last post I have written some tips for those who are starting in the world of programming, but today I want to talk something that happened to me before, and is happening to me now: There is just too much information on the internet! You will say that this is an obvious observation, but when you want to study something, this is just overwhelming!

Few months ago I decided to drop my career as an oceanographer and decided to become a backend developer with Python, as I told some of you here. After my blog post circulates on the internet, I got an invitation to talk on the Caipyra conference, in Ribeirão Preto (thanks Marco Rougeth).