#CNC2021 "Write More" Pre-Mission Submission Thread

hello! here's a recent "explainer" post on Glassmorphism in User Interfaces by Michal Malewicz. I really liked the discussion around the origin of the trend and the impact it has on accessibility.

just started the challenge :) my favorite tutorial post is this post on deploying full-stack apps. i've used it numerous times for different projects of mine, and it is a very verbose and in-depth tutorial without being too high level.

Hello everyone 😃 !

When going through the article for this pre-mission, I asked to myself, why not blog about this challenge, so that I could easily go back on everything I will be learning from it, and I will also start writing again. Moreover, it will give me the opportunity to introduce myself to the CodeNewbie community, which is something that I really wanted to do!
So this is exactly what I did in this post 😉
By the way, if you have any advice about how I could have made my post better, or if you only want to say "Hi", feel free to post a comment on it ! 🙂

To come back to the purpose of the pre-mission, my favorite post when reading articles for this pre-mission was "💻 Hackathons – All you need to know right now! 💻".
This is an "explainer" post, and I found it really exhaustif and easy to read ! Each point is concise, the author takes the time to talk to the reader, which I really enjoy. I also feel like the author try to address all the people who could be interested, and I appreciate that a lot 😃

For the articles I picked and the points I liked and the one I would have done differently, they all can be found on the article I did about this first step in the Write More Challenge 😉

Thank you all for reading this relatively long comment,
Have a splendid day 🙂

While I don't think my three chosen posts matched the three categories exactly, they are all articles I've enjoyed in the past and helped me with my coding.
Tutorial: It's a (focus)trap!
Explainer: Getting Started with ARIA
Project: How we grew our SEO to bring our site 70K+ visitors a month

I never thought about the different ways you could explain something! It's very cool how two completely different writers can explain a subject in two different ways, and you can learn from both! I love how the articles are all well organized, helping me break down a large subject into small chunks. I also love when articles gives links to more resources if you were interested in learning more!

Hey everybody ! Just got started with the challenge.

As for the article (tutorial) I really liked reading would be :
becominghuman.ai/detecting-pneumon...

It gives a detailed insight into the author's work on this project in the field of Deep Learning and using it to detect Pneumonia.

Hey y'all!

I really just jumped into the challenge, as I've been trying to start a blog and can't decide what topic to focus on, and also want to build my social media presence (a little gun-shy there :-/). So here goes:

• Tutorial: Make your own VSCode theme and Publish!

  Explicit, step-by-step instruction with plenty of screenshots along the way make this really approachable. The GUI tool is still in development, so it might be a little buggy, tho...

• Explainer: Do you really understand interfaces?

  The author's irreverent humor hooked me here, especially since I've been trying to figure out interfaces in Java for months! Well organized, and laser-focused: He avoids going off on tangents and explains exactly what he intends to.

• Project: How I Built and Deployed My First Web Application with Django in 5 Weeks.

  I really liked how he broke down the project from conception to completion, and linked the resources he consulted and showed all the stages. There's not a lot of code examples, but it's a high-level overview and really shows the thought process well.

It was great to explore some examples of different approaches, and made me think about the projects I'd like to start!

I didn't have a favorite post, but the things that I noticed are:

Things I liked

• Very visual examples, including interactive visuals that show movement
• Touching different learning styles - graphs and intuitive visuals
• The tutorial had a reference list of terms at the end, so the entire post wouldn't need to be read again. The main information I would look up later was summarized there.
• One of the posts had a question for a title and it precisely answered that question.

Things I didn't like

• One post had mixed experience level material that would be frustrating for beginners, but annoying for more experienced people. I would like to focus on just one group at a time.
• Another post only described the meaning of a word in the context of programming without giving a general definition. I would like to have multiple 'connections' for helping readers remember what they learned. One way is to connect the regular meaning of a word to how it is used in programming.
• Long posts that focus on too many things

(Now I should think of different types of 'connections' that would help readers of different experiences and learning styles.)

Blog Posts

• Tutorial: Build a simple card skeleton loader...by Gaurav Gawade
• Explainer: JWT Authentication Best Practices by Fernando Doglio
• Project: The Benefits of Owning a Personal Blog by Gift Egwuenu

Liked

• Step by step instructions
• Screenshots
• Reasoning
• Library recommendations
• Thorough information

Disliked

• No live demo
• Missing explanations
• Too technical

Hi! I like posts like this one on choosing a type of test framework for Ruby on Rails. It's short, helps me decide on something specific, and not typically something you see in the library documentation.

I love this post by a former backend developer at Digg.

Here, Alexandra explains in much detail an issue they were facing in a Node.js project at Digg. She explains the problem, the research that she did, gives metrics to support her findings, and mentions the solution that they reached at the end.

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There is another one from Google Designs that is my favorite.

Here, Antin talks about the work she/he did on the Google Photos app. It describes in greater detail the 4 challenges they faced and how they solved each one. It gives ample code examples and diagrams to help understand the challenge as well as the solution.