Category: Tech Advice

This section is aimed at people with some intermediate to advanced technical experience, such as tech enthusiasts and professionals, or people who simply would like to expand their knowledge of computing technologies. The topics include information on how to write code, overview of inner workings of your smartphone, concrete steps that need to be taken to become a software developer, best coding practices and other interesting subjects.

The majority of articles focus on software development, especially .NET stack.

Building .NET Core sound application – part 2

This is the second part in our series of tutorials on building audio capabilities into .NET Core, which the platform doesn’t have out of the box. In the first tutorial of this series, we...

Building .NET Core audio application – part 1

As great as .NET Core is for writing software for multiple platforms, it lacks some basic capabilities. This applies to those functionalities that would work radically differently on different platforms under the...

Building .NET Core desktop application

.NET Core is great for cross-platform app development. Unfortunately, the compatibility with multiple platforms was achieved primarily by excluding any components that are specific to Windows OS that it’s predecessor, .NET Framework...

How to play sound on .NET Core

How do you play sound in .NET Core apps? Is there a version of NAudio NuGet package for .NET Core or it’s equivalent? Sadly, playing sound is nowhere near as straight forward on .NET...

How to protect your website from spammers

If you own a website and have given its users the ability to post content, such as comments or articles, you are bound to clash with malicious spammers at some point. They...

Proven way to make programming fun

Software development can be a very interesting and financially rewarding career. With abundance of free online tutorials, learning how to program today is easier than ever. However, there is one major hurdle that...

Why you should care about functional programming

While releasing version 15.7 update to Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft has announced that its main functional language, F#, has been given a whole new set of cutting edge features and tooling, far better...

What the heck is WebAssembly

Back in the days, if you wanted to run something fancy in your browser, you needed to install a plugin. Each one of those supported only a specific technology. So, Flash plugin...

Desktop apps are not dead. Here is why

Many people entering a software development career are often told to focus on web applications over desktop ones. Apparently, many believe that desktop apps are a dying technology. While it is true...

Popular misconceptions about Node.js

As a server-side technology, Node.js has it’s advantages and disadvantages. However, many developers who are accustomed to working with other server-side technologies will never even consider Node.js. Sometimes, there are objective reasons...

Scientific Programmer is the place where you can learn about scientific approach to software development.

The process of software development and conducting scientific experiments are very similar. The only difference is that, in software development, iterations are usually a lot quicker than they are in science. So, understanding how science works will definitely help in your software development career.

Unfortunately, many new programmers, especially self-taught ones, often go through unnecessary struggle in their programming tasks, and it’s all because they haven’t been taught how to solve problems the way science has done for centuries.

So, the main purpose of this website is to teach programmers how to apply scientific thinking in the context of their work and to teach scientists how to program, in case any of them would want to acquire some in-demand technical skills.

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