Your Coding Teacher

You: "I just coded a real masterpiece! Only I and God two know how it works." Also you, 3 months later: "Now only God knows."

CIA Triad - Confidentiality: only authorized users can access the data - Integrity: to prevent unauthorized modifications of data - Availability: to ensure authorized users can access resources when they need them The Pillars of Information Security

Relational Databases Available in AWS: - SQL Server - Oracle - MySQL Server - PostgreSQL - Aurora (proprietary) - MariaDB Which one is your favourite?

The worst mistake you can make is to equate years of experience with wisdom. There are people with 10 years of experience. And people who have experienced the same year ten times.

Coding is easy. Writing good code is hard.

The best developers follow a simple principle "Always Be Learning"

Stop starting. Start finishing.

Basics of most programming languages * Variables * Data types * Conditionals (if - else) * Loops (for - while) * Functions * Arrays * Dictionaries * Classes and objects That's enough to build many interesting applications

Amazon EC2 - Provides virtual servers - Supports multiple OS - Resources optimized for different workloads: memory/CPU intensive, storage, etc

You don't need to know every: - Programming language - Framework - Cloud provider - Algorithm - AI technique - ... Learn what you need to glue all the pieces together and create value for someone

"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?" - Alan J. Perlis

"A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs." - Bram Moolenaar

It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code

"The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working." - John Ousterhout

4 JavaScript interview questions What's the difference between var, let and const keywords? What is the difference between Implicit and Explicit Coercion? What is Object Destructuring? What does "use strict" do?

The only code that will work forever is the code you never write

"Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." - Alan J. Perlis

A program is crystallized thought

Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning