Coding

Background You might have come across our post about learning how to code as a beginner. If not, you can read all about it here. After embarking on our code learning journey we have discovered a not so obvious tool that you can use to help you learn that no one is talking about it. That tool believe it or not, is Apple Shortcuts. Hear us out In that post we talked a little bit about why it’s valuable to focus on gaining a deep understanding of fundamental programming operations. IF statements, for loops, switch statements, these are concepts that are not unique to any one programming language but rather are ubiquitous foundations that exist in many languages. The syntactical differences between programming languages, although important to learn will come naturally with repetition and we recommend focusing energy elsewhere. ...

Background If you’ve read any of our other articles here at Red Bear you know that we love learning about learning. You know that we’re always looking at ways of being as efficient and effective as we can be about every aspect of our lives. The latest learning journey that we have embarked on is learning how to code. Our journey is far from over and in reality it may be closer to the starting line than the finish line but we’ve learned a few things along the way that may help some of you on your journey. ...