Feb 5 · 5 min read · Open source did not begin as a marketing term or a licensing model. It began as a response to a fundamental shift in how software was controlled. What started as a practical frustration inside a research lab eventually grew into a global movement tha...
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Jan 24 · 8 min read · Caesar Cipher The Caesar Cipher in fact belongs to the oldest encrypting methods. The cipher involves the shifting of each letter in the plaintext by a certain number of places down or up within the alphabet. For instance, if the shifting number is 3...
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Jan 19 · 8 min read · What’s Git? So as we know that we cannot just store different versions of our code to get the older version because we need information of what changes were made, who made it - when were they made etc. So we needed version control systems. So many ve...
Join discussionJan 19 · 4 min read · That era was also known as the “copy-paste-rename” era. In the early 1980s and 90s, we evolved from punch cards to hard drives for code, but developers at that time didn’t have the tools to track it. They used to copy and rename folders for version m...
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Jan 17 · 3 min read · Most beginners start with a simple belief:“I’ll just keep my code in a folder. That’s enough.” It feels reasonable. You write files, hit save, and move on. Why add another tool? To see why this mindset breaks fast, let’s rewind to an old-school way o...
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Jan 16 · 3 min read · Not long ago, in the early days of programming, sharing code was a difficult and messy task. When we wrote code, we often wanted to showcase it, sometimes to flex, sometimes out of worry, or simply to get feedback from a more experienced programmer o...
Join discussionJan 17 · 5 min read · If you’re stepping into software development, Git is not optional—it’s essential. Almost every modern development team relies on Git to manage code, collaborate efficiently, and avoid costly mistakes. Yet for beginners, Git often feels confusing, fil...
Join discussionJan 16 · 3 min read · In the previous article, we learned what Git is, how it works internally, its core concepts, and some commonly used commands. Now we will explore the .git folder and its internal structure. We will also see how Git tracks the history of changes and u...
Join discussionJan 16 · 3 min read · In the previous article, we explored how developers worked before version control systems like Git, the challenges they faced, and how those problems were eventually solved. In this article, we will take a closer look at what Git actually is and how ...
Join discussionJan 15 · 4 min read · “This was the final time… I promise.” How many times have you heard that line?Probably more times than you wanted to. “This is the last time I’m eating junk food.”“This is the last time I’m doing this, for sure.” But it’s never the last time.There’s...
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