Programming Fundamentals

Over the past decade, programming has emerged as an indispensable tool, enabling us to tackle challenges previously thought impossible. However, the vast array of programming languages, each tailored to address specific needs, can be overwhelming. The silver lining is that once we master the fundamentals of a language and understand how computers work, learning new languages becomes a breeze.

In this Series, we will spend time understanding how to write code in some of the most popular languages, such as Python, Julia, Rust, Scala, TypeScript, SQL, and DAX, along with niche or lesser-known options such as Erlang, Elixir, OCaml, Haskell, Crystal, and even Assembly.

Throughout a collection of carefully-curated articles, we’ll delve into each language’s theory and historical context, provide a detailed installation process, recommend suitable IDEs for each case, discuss relevant extensions, explain key components, and offer hands-on examples that will hopefully bring clarity and serve as a reasonable starting point to further embark on this journey.

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Rust is a compiled, multi-paradigm, low-level, statically-typed, general-purpose programming language emphasizing performance, type safety, and concurrency. It was originally…
Destructuring is a very powerful & widely-used syntactic construct that allows us to decompose a given object or structure…
Programming paradigms play a crucial role in the realm of computer science. They act as blueprints or frameworks to…
Elixir is a compiled, dynamically-typed, general-purpose, functional programming language developed by Brazilian software developer José Valim, first released in…
In our previous article, What Is Julia, and Why It Matters?, we discussed why Julia is so relevant today and…
GitHub Gists is a tool developed by GitHub which provides a simple way to share code snippets with other people….
Machine learning has revolutionized the way we approach problem-solving and decision-making. As a subset of artificial intelligence, it has…
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used for creating formatted text. It was created in 2004 by John Gruber &…
Regular Expressions, also known as RegEx, is a pattern-matching tool used to find patterns in strings. We can think…

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