Top 5 Websites to Learn Coding (Python,Ruby,Java) for Beginners in 2020

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So one of the greatest things about programming is that you can create so many things that solves so many issues in your life and others. But the worst thing about programming is the learning curve and the tedious hours you have to go through to learn the programming language that makes you hate yourself for even thinking about putting yourself in this ridiculous situation in the first place. But you love the end result, hence like the common masochist you continue even when it hurts.

So you want to be a programmer, but you don’t know how to start and since your a millennial or gen x’er in the existing in the 20’s of the 21 century, you know YouTube and Google are your best-friends, but you also realize that just sitting down watching a video for 4 hours would really suck. Luckily there are other options on the internet that helps curb this absurdly boring method.

before you do anything though, the best way to start is to get a grasp on symbolic logic. Understanding symbolic logic and it’s subsets, propositional logic. this is mostly the process of turning arguments into symbols and analyzing the truth value and false value of them by doing proofs and using valid argument forms. This isn’t a mandatory need, but this will help you understand logic statements and get your mind rolling down the path of understanding logic in computer science, which programming is based on. You can likely find this around google somewhere or you can go here (http://intrologic.stanford.edu/public/index.php) and (http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/forms/). Now here are the top 5 places you can go to that will help you learn different types of programming languages.

Codecademy

Price: 19.99/month

Description: Codecademy is free if you want to learn just the basics of the top languages of this age. They have courses for C++, R, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Python, Swift, and more. They claim that they are committed to building the best learning experience inside and out, making Codecademy the best place for our team to learn, teach, and create the online learning experience of the future.

My opinion: I think that Codecademy is worth the money. But if you are like me and like things that are free, then you probably don’t want to spend 20 dollars a month on something you can watch on YouTube and download a text editor so you can do same exercises yourself. I don’t like paying for anything because I’m cheap.

 

Udemy

Price: depends on the course you buy and language

Description: So Udemy is a website that has a myriad of different courses that provide in depth information for anything specific. They have drawing courses, marketing courses, data science, anything you can think of. So we know that they have courses for programming too like Python and Java as well as teaching concepts like Object Oriented Programming, Functional programming, building GUI’s and more.

My opinion: I think this is better than Codecademy because you can find courses for free or cheaper than 20 dollars. They also always have sales that you can take advantage of. The only drawback with this option is that you have to really apply yourself in order to make sure you get through all the lessons because they are really boring depending on what you buy and there’s no real flexibility in terms of what is being given to you as a lesson. The lessons can make a lot of assumptions about what their viewers already know and what they do not. And that is pretty ridiculous, but it’s the beast you have to tangle with.

W3schools.com

Price: Free

Description: This is a website that concentrates mostly on web development and gives users access to the knowledge of languages that are associated with web development. They teach you the basics when it comes to markup languages like HTML then move on to bigger and more popular languages like Java, Python, C++, C# and more in relation to web development. he site derives its name from the World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with the W3C. W3Schools was originally created in 1998 by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software development and consulting company.

My Opinion: Definitely better then the ones previously mention mainly because of the aspect that it’s FREE. That word is so sacred when your a broke millennial so always seek it out and make sure it becomes your idol, your God, your lover, your…well…you get the point. The only drawback is that it is heavily focused on only web development so you might learn the language, but will be limited to only knowing how to create web apps and not more things outside of the internet. This will force you to seek out other options. Bummer

 

Sololearn

Price: Free

Description: This organization created a platform that puts learning and social networking in the same space. They claim “Learning has never been this social and accessible for so many! Bit-sized lessons and fun practice sessions grab your attention and keep you focused, for guaranteed best results!” They have an app that can be used on both your android and Apple phone as well as the opportunity to learn on the browser as well. They also make the lessons game like so that the user feels like they are achieving something each time they go through the lessons. They would receives badges, points, and achievements that does the job of showing the user their own progress.

My Opinion: Sololearn is something I personally use to get ahead on material and learn the basics of what I need to know. It’s useful when you are trying to kill time on the train, which helps you ignore the strange smells that always linger in the train station. Each language has at least more than 50 lessons on it.

FreeCodeCamp

Price: Free

Description: Best APP OUT THERE!!whoops, this is supposed to be the objective section, sorry. This Website is a One-stop shop for all your Software development needs. It provides the user with understanding Javascript through and through and does this one thing very well. Now it doesn’t have tutorials for other languages out right, but through their forums and articles they link to good free resources and videos that can help you learn these things.

My Opinion: I believe that if you want to learn the basic and intermediate level information for data structures and algorithms in JavaScript, this is the best place to start. Learning data structures and algorithms in one language doesn’t limit you either because it helps you apply the concepts of these things to other language that you will later learn. They have thousands of hours of lessons for JavaScript and links to learn other languages through their search bar. Some might say the other options are better than this one because the lessons are right there for you on the platform, but in my opinion I feel like a lot of the other ones only have their users dip their toes in each of the languages and don’t do enough to apply the language to solving common computer science problems. This is different with free code camp; it gives you the instruction learning the coding language and applies the language to learning data structures, algorithms and more which helps the user understand the science of programming rather than just being able to build cool stuff.

Well that my “informed” opinions in a nutshell. I hope you found this hopeful. This blog is guaranteed to change your life for the better or worse (the worse I’m sure 😈). Have a wonderful day!

Organizations Struggle With Security in the Cloud

 

Businesses tailor their use of cloud infrastructure to the needs of their business.Organizations need consistency across environments – security most of all.

Whether they are responding to government mandates or C-level
demands, organizations use the public cloud to participate in
industry ecosystems, leverage cloud-native architectures, and
deliver applications at the speed of the business. Despite the
strategic imperative, organizations are much less confident in their
ability to withstand an application-layer attack in the public cloud
versus in an on-premises data center. This discrepancy illustrates
a real need for easy-to-deploy solutions that can ensure consistent
security across multiple environments.

 

87% of organizations are multi-cloud and most still struggle with security.

Following through on their strategic initiatives, organizations continue to adopt cloud platforms at a high rate, with 27% of respondents reporting that they will have more than half of their applications in the cloud by the end of 2020. When we asked organizations how they decide which cloud is best for their applications, the number one answer was on a “case-by-case, per application” basis. This approach necessitates using multiple providers, and three out of four respondents report that they have applications in two or more cloud providers. This per-application strategy is required because each application is unique and serves a specific function within the business. Each can have end users that scale from less than a hundred to into the millions. And each has a different risk exposure—from a breach, to public embarrassment, to costing the business billions of dollars in damages.

It is imperative to have application services that span multiple
architectures and multiple infrastructures to ensure consistent
(and cost-effective) performance, security, and operability
across the application portfolio.

 

There are many challenges in managing a multi-cloud environment, and maintaining security, policy, and compliance are chief among them as reported by respondents:

  • • Applying consistent security policies across all company applications
  • • Protecting applications from existing and emerging threats
  • • Complying with regulations

This is not surprising as evidenced by 71% of organizations reporting a skills gap in security. The highest skills gap lies in the discipline of protecting their applications from attack and breach according to 54% of respondents. The location of those apps matters as well. Organizations report a much lower confidence in their ability to withstand an
application-layer attack in the public cloud. While 62% report they are confident in their ability to protect applications in an on-premises data center, only 45% of organizations are confident in their ability to protect applications in the public cloud.

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The notion of achieving a single application architecture or uniform infrastructure environment is a pipedream for most organizations of scale. Instead, leading organizations recognize that the most efficient and effective way to treat each application uniquely while operating and securing applications across heterogeneous architectures and environments is through a set of application services that abstract the application logic from the underlying infrastructure.

 

The challenge of providing security parity across all application architectures and infrastructure is brought into even sharper relief by taking a snapshot of the average application portfolio.

According to the survey respondents, no single application architecture has the majority. Three-tier web and mobile app architectures come in first at 40%, with client-server following right behind at 34%. Microservices/cloud-native architectures are on the rise at 15%, but old school mainframe/monoliths still account for 11%. With each new generation, additional business value is created and captured, yet the investments, value, and insights arising from the previous generation of architecture is still necessary—which leads to organizations having a diverse application portfolio.

Given the heterogeneous mix of application architectures in a typical organization’s portfolio, it is understandable that over a third of respondents reported that refactoring legacy applications for modern environments is a priority for digital transformation. Additionally, it highlights the fact that multi-cloud will be the norm for the long term. It is imperative to have application services that span multiple architectures and multiple infrastructures to ensure consistent (and cost-effective) performance, security, and operability across the application portfolio.

 

The Application Economy Evolves

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Cloud, automation and orchestration, and big data analytics will be the top three strategic trends in the coming years.

It is time to manage the application portfolio like the business asset it is.
First, focus on the application services required to secure, scale, and digitize
IT and business processes. Automation and orchestration are key foundational tenets in this first phase of digital transformation. As organizations transition to the second phase, it is important to instrument application services to emit telemetry for unified visibility and control over policy enforcement. In the third phase, this telemetry from application services can be studied by cloud analytics tools to provide actionable operational and business insights such as predicting capacity, preventing loss, and delivering differentiated customer experiences.

80% of organizations are executing
on digital transformation—with
increasing emphasis on accelerating
speed to market.

 

According to senior leader respondents, 4 out of 5 organizations are embarking on digital transformation. Consistent with our findings last year, IT optimization and business process optimization are the top reported benefits of these initiatives. This demonstrates that IT organizations continue to re-evaluate their structures, processes, and workflows to set the stage for the next phase in their digital transformation journey. With organizations beginning to breach the second phase of digital transformation—a period marked by an increase in applications and an expansion of automation—their growing dependence on applications should be no surprise. When we asked organizations why they wanted to engage in digital transformation, it came down to business agility and differentiated customer experiences: the primary driver for organizations was improving the velocity of new product/service introductions (67%), followed by responding to emerging competitors (32%), and the behaviors of new buyers (31%). That every business today is an application business is not just a catchy marketing phrase.

For 62% of organizations, applications are essential to business; without applications, they cannot operate. And 36% tell us applications support their business and provide competitive advantage. Only 2% of respondents globally reported they do not need applications to operate—a group primarily composed of organizations with fewer than 100 employees.

It’s important to note that the use of the term “business” here is not restricted to revenue generating applications. External-facing applications make up less than half (45%) of an organization’s app portfolio. The rest are internal facing and include productivity, process related, and, increasingly, operational applications. These internal-facing apps are critical to digitizing business processes—and making them consistent, repeatable, and scalable. As digital business activities mature, organizations are looking to combine digital services from previously unconnected industries or segments, forming new ecosystems to create value. Senior leaders reported that cloud, automation and orchestration, and big data
analytics will be the top three strategic trends in the next two to five years.