fabiochiu/medium-articles huggingface dataset:
Focus on past and present customers for more sales — sales advice
By: Md Thouhidul Islam Tawhid
Tags: Freelancing, Sales Advice, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategies

If you want to increase sales, you should attract past and present customers with your new product! You must be careful and respectful about those who have already purchased your products or services and have tried to purchase again. Find out how to take care of all past and present buyers.

You don’t have to spend as much as 20% to get a new person as a buyer to sell another product to an old buyer. Older buyers can basically help to find a new buyer.

If you keep forgetting old and current buyers in order to get new buyers, your business sales will continue to decline. Rather than forgetting old buyers, use their credits to attract new buyers.

If you can analyze your past and present customers and if you understand their needs, you are ready to dramatically increase your sales and encourage buyers.

Your marketing can certainly influence sales to get new buyers all the time, but it can’t completely drive sales. Because, because you are already aware of the behavior of your old buyers. You know how to offer your new product to an old buyer.

Tradersit.com
Home-Based Internet Business OR Your Dream Job
By: Hassan Mushtaq
Tags: Business, Business Strategy, Jobs, Home Based Business, Internet Business

Why the Internet Home-Based Business is a Great Selection

Internet home businesses have been around for a very long time, yet now they’re getting more mainstream as more people might want to have the opportunity of working from their own home without a boss standing behind and assuming responsibility for everything.

People want to earn money while they rest or they are out of home voyaging and remembering that cash continues streaming in any event, when they are not working right now. Some people imagine that maintaining a home business is a smart thought to bring in some additional cash and frequently consider to turn it into regular work or a full-time job.

Working from home is also an extraordinary method to supply the extra benefit stream that people regularly need as they discover the pay from their every-day job insufficient. Interestingly, the likely results of online home business are limitless. Usual people can make additional cash, control their fate, and freedom running away from the corporate-political issues and rules in the 9–5 work environment. Establishing a business at home can offer a handsome income, flexibility, and as well as offer the opportunity to make peoples’ dreams work out.

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

The sum of this is possible in recognition of the headway of the internet which rushes so much that it as of now offers unusual home-based business open entryways for standard people to work from home and as an excellent kind of income on the internet. Other than the Internet is a medium making communication a lot simpler which is one of the principal factors in choosing about fruitful online business and achieving at expected clients.
Google Earning Money Method, How Google Earn Money — SaimTechNews
Tags: Earn Money Online, Google, Earnings, Business Strategy, Business

Google is the world’s number one search engine website and has created a lot of internet-based products, in such a situation, if you would think that when Google gives everything for free, then What is Google Earning Money Method, How Google Earn Money?

Google Earning Money Method

The question is true because if you think, you will find that if you search anything in Google search. Then you will get the best results and that too in free when you watch videos on YouTube, that too for free or use Google Map. And Google does not even take his money from you. Then any person will be forced to think that Google is such a big company and a lot of engineers work. Then who pays Google, or google earning money methods if all this If you want to know, you will have to read this post completely and yes, if you like this information, then you can definitely share it with your friends.

Google Earning Business Model

If you want to understand the business model of Google, then for that you will first have to understand how Google is connected with you and then who pays the money both concepts.

When you go to Google website, then do some search on it like take an example “ What is Google Adsense “. And when you search this thing, a list of many websites comes in front of you and on the first page you get A list containing 10 websites link. And after that what do you do? Visit the website that you like, right? Is this what you do? So will you think why have you clicked the website?

If you liked this article don’t forget to clap and visit the website for full article.
Where Startups Fail?
By: Nithin C
Tags: Startup, Startup Lessons, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy

According to a recent survey 8 out of 10 IT employees have always thought about entrepreneurship.

Why and where they Fail ?

Lack of knowledge about how the company operates. Financial instability Lack of Perseverance

Based on my personal experience when you’re an IT EMPLOYEE being paid well, Always begin your startup in Parallel . Do not resign your current job as Startup takes atleast 3 months to be up and out.

You can always work on weekends and put extra hours to make sure you’re ground work is done

Rethink before resigning your current job and make sure your taking the right decision in the ongoing pandemic as you want to be financially stable
Business loan kese le
By: Digital Shiksha
Tags: Startup, Business Strategy, Bank Loan For Startups

Digital Shiksha is zirakpur ‘s leading professional institute in the profession of digital marketing. Only digital shiksha gives 100% practical knowledge.
Tulsi business in hindi
By: Digital Shiksha
Tags: Tulsi, Business Strategy, Natural Medicine

Digital Shiksha is zirakpur ‘s leading professional institute in the profession of digital marketing. Only digital shiksha gives 100% practical knowledge.
A De-‘Licious’ Story
By: Shantanu Paul
Tags: Startup, Business Storytelling, Business Story, Strategy, Business Strategy

The Metamorphosis

But when the rubber hit the road, they realised there was a lot of work that needed to be done. The supply chain was critical because the product is highly perishable. Aggregation meant the same “broken” experience where they could not be sure of quality or storage standards.

“We had to build a farm-to-fork framework that would work within a 24-hour delivery framework,” Vivek says.

“The experience goes back to the way the animals are reared by the farmers. Including how they are treated and fed,” Abhay adds.

Abhay says when anyone talks about food processing there is a lot of science associated with it, but that didn’t seem to be the case with livestock farmers. Especially, ones in the red meat industry. He explains the red meat sector is highly unorganised, and farmers hardly make any money in the process. Licious, therefore, needed to bring in elements of technology to the supply chain processing.

The approach is what got investors hooked, says Ben Mathias, Managing Partner at Vertex Ventures, which invested in Licious in September 2018.

“They had all numbers at their finger tips and had great clarity of thought in their business strategy and approach. We also spent time with the next-level team and were impressed by their passion and professionalism,” Ben adds.

Licious today has forged partnerships with 180 vendors, has 27 delivery centres, and an employee strength of 600. It has built contractual arrangements with large institutional meat vendors who are trained in managing livestock and meat handling techniques, according to international standards. It is also has the food safety certification — FSSC 22000 certified.

Licious also has over 300,000 customers, clocks at least 6,000 orders per day, and does 90 percent repeat business every month.
What if life will no longer return to normal?
By: Lucy Lu
Tags: Covid 19, Opportunity, Travel, Business Strategy, Supply Chain

What if life will no longer return to normal?

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House health advisor, suggested that the United States might never get back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine. Companies and business owners in today’s world will have to change and get adapt to new patterns.

Say goodbye to global supply chains

Photo courtesy of Frank McKenna/Unsplash

Do you see empty shelves at the grocery store? Are the dumbbells missing in your local gym?

The Covid-19 outbreak is negatively affecting supply chains and significantly disrupting the global operations of manufacturing, transportation, and logistics. The pause of global supply chains force thousands of companies to shut assembly and manufacturing plants around the world, especially those in cheap labor markets such as China and India.

As many countries have closed their borders, multinational companies and outsourcing contractors must rethink the opportunities and risks of the global supply chains and explore new ways to develop their domestic supply chains in the post-Covid-19 era.

Get ready for domestic checkpoints

Photo by Ana Pieters on Unsplash

The stress of COVID-19 reminds us of the “Federalism” and the United “States.” Inter-state transportations are no longer free, as stay-at-home order, travel ban, and quarantine requirement become popular methods to stop the spread of COVID-19 in most states.

Some local authorities have gone further to enforce restrictions and have started police patrols and set up to stop interstate travelers. That further increases the trouble of logistics as future interstate transportation will be prolonged and interrupted than before.

Service models update as lifestyles change

Photo by Robert Anasch

We miss the days when everyone can enjoy dinner at fancy restaurants, have a quick bite in a mall food court, taste with relish in hotel breakfasts and airport lounges. Take out, food delivery, and drive-through will be the usually models in the restaurant business.

Even though the current dine-in limits and bans end, the fear of pandemic will remain in people’s minds for a long time, and therefore, table separators will be pervasive, the all-you-can-eat buffet will decline, and shared dining experience will be discouraged.

Online learning takes over traditional education

Photo by Andrew Neel

The debate between online courses and face-to-face classes will be coming to the end. Future students are able to graduate with virtual learning and fully online environments. That will probably be the way for college professors to prepare digital courses, make plural multi-media contents and hold video conferences in the mid to late 21st century.

Seize the opportunities

A crisis can be an opportunity. There is never a shortage of evolution and life change in human history. We can always learn to adapt and explore new opportunities to thrive in the new era.
CHAKKA , KHUSRA , HIJRA. How these word look to you ? Do they…
By: Iqra Bashir
Tags: Business Strategy, Amaacademy

CHAKKA , KHUSRA , HIJRA

How these word look to you ? Do they sound common ? How many times have you heard these words on signals ? These are very common words to us . They do not even bother us even sometimes we use these words too .Probably you are the one who use these words commonly and what about those CLAPS ? .Yes those claps that are known as the signature claps for one of the beautiful creation of my Almighty Allah . How many times our comedians on stage crack jokes over this creation of God and we laughed out loud?

Yes I am talking about the most beautiful community that unfortunately live between beast like us that is transgenders .

Though we live in a country where poverty lives like its owned place where people kill without any reason but there are still people who write about them but for transgenders we barely talk. We probably do not even think about them . I want to work for them .If I can not change their life still I want to try to play my part. I want to give them an opportunity to earn their money respectfully through my business.

Here is my idea of empowerment through business

You know what a bookoholic want ? A bookstore , from where he can buy book in bulk and what if he gets a cozy and peaceful place with a cup of warm coffee too where he can sit and read his book? Yes That is my business idea I want to open a book and coffee cafe.

But after I iscuss with my team, think and research over it .I found faults in my plan and right now because I do not have much money to invest in it . So I plan to start an online book store thenafter some time when my business will grow I will buy a cart where I can easily sell my books and coffee near any park and give employment to transgenders.

In future ,I will progress Insha Allah and this cart will grow into a book and coffee where I can train transgenders , educate them and obviously give them employment too.

I know its quite difficult but not impossible .Infact it is I M POSSIBLE.
Dad Subtly Taught Me the Subtle Art of Business When I Was 9
By: Shajedul Karim
Tags: Startup, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Business Strategy, Business

Family Is God, but Customers Are God’s Chair

At our shop,

Dad: “Shajedul, sit here and I’ll be back in two minutes.”

Me: “Twwwwo minutessss. I can just give you one minute, dad.”

Dad: “Okay, sit down.”

That one minute never came. It changes every time. Sometimes one hour, sometimes two and a half. Sometimes the worst: four hours. Dad starts working and forgets I am even there.

One day, it was four hours and I was sitting there. After four hours, he turns on his mobile. His eyebrows raised, “68 missed calls! Woah!” It was my mom. She was tensed about me and the turned-off mobile amplified her worry. Dad forgot I was even there. I was blowing with anger.

When I went to the home, I got happy. I got a back pain by tripping off in the room with mom’s tears. One week bed rest. Yahoo!

Why the wait at the shop? Dad had to walk/drive me to the barbershop three minutes away.

Just three minutes away.

I have to cut my hairs at the 1st of every month. No excuse. No nothing. It’s a strict order by mom. Once, we woke a barber up from sleep just to cut my hairs before 11.59 p.m. on the first of October.

But, when mom sent me with dad, in 12 months, at least five of the times I had to cut my hair the next day. Dad forgets me when I’m at our shop.

Takeaway:

Family might be God but customers are God’s chair. Without the chair, God has to stand. Without customers, you have to starve. Customers are the top priority.
intelligent Crypto currency
Tags: Trading, Cryptocurrency, Money, Business Strategy, Bitcoin

HOW A 5% NET WORTH BET ON SELECT CRYPTOCURRENCIES COULD QUADRUPLE YOUR NET WORTH IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS

For more details: https://www.digistore24.com/redir/339306/Parth374/

WHY CRYPTOCURRENCY?

Where else do you get a chance to potentially make 10x, 50x or even as much as 277x returns in less than a year?

I believe we're on the cusp of the biggest cryptocurrency bull market we've ever seen. Bitcoin has already traded over $23,000 and I believe it's just the beginning.

But forget about Bitcoin... the time to buy that was months ago when it was still trading under $10,000. Sure, it may still go up to $100,000 in future, but that's "only" a 5x and it would take ENORMOUS capital to get it to that level.
Nitrile gloves Available in stock
By: Verameh Komandoas
Tags: Medical, Health, Business Strategy, Coronavirus, Science

Nitrile gloves Available in stock

(MOQ: 100,000/boxes per week)

Vinyl gloves

(MOQ: 150,000/boxes per week)

Nitrile/Vinyl blend

(MOQ: 150,000/boxes per week)

Anti Viral NIOSH N95 Face masks

(MOQ: 50,000/masks per week)

3ply face masks

(MOQ: 50,000/masks per week)

Infrared no touch thermometers.

(MOQ: 30,000/units per week

Clinical Mercury thermometers.

(MOQ: 50,000/units per week)

Digital thermometers.

(MOQ: 30,000/units per week)

Hand Sanitizer

100ml

250ml

500ml

5 litre

Contact me directly to place your order.

All products listed are FDA, CDC, CE, TGA approved.

WhatsApp: +4917694915576

Email: veramehkomandoas@gmail.com
What are the Advantages of Digital Marketing in Business Growth?
By: Amit Mundada
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing, Business Strategy, Business

Let me keep short and to the point.

Digital marketing has the potential to reach & build brand awareness across the globe. Though your company may be a 1day older, you can build a good brand value and awareness among the viewers.

But, Digital marketing is not for every business. It’s the strategies which will help the marketing work. I believe without the right strategies marketing is worthless.

Though you’re an offline business or an online business owner. Digital marketing is good for your business growth. It’s the right person who can help you with the strategies to grow and scale. As per company operations, product, and services strategies can be created and move along with.

No doubt, digital marketing is a huge ocean. Also from day 1 of digital marketing, you find the results. It is similar to offline business. The company must have patience and be consistent with digital work. This leads to the bigger picture in the future.

I run a Digital Branding Company and I insist you at least start having a digital presence. Just present your product or services. You needn’t sell.

Any help, I would love to give you the right suggestion and guidance.

Many thanks for reading this. Hope so this helps you out :)
the case for tinkering on purpose
By: William Liao
Tags: Creativity, Entrpreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Growth Mindset

1 idea, 60 seconds, daily to spur action towards our best work and living meaningfully and mindfully

No one had the idea to invent the chocolate chip cookie.

In 1930 while preparing a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, Ruth Wakefield substituted the recipe’s ever-dependable baker’s chocolate that she was missing with chopped bits from a block of Nestle chocolate.

Ruth didn’t try this before; she expected the chocolate chips to evenly disperse throughout the cookie. Instead, the chips retained their form, the cookies were well-received, and so the chocolate-chip cookie that the world would come to revel in was introduced.

The chocolate chip cookie, penicillin, slinkies and a wide array of other happy accidents didn’t start with the insight in mind — in most cases they were the result of someone adjusting their routine by necessity or happenstance.

The moral of the story isn’t to do away with intention and put all faith into serendipity, but there is something to be said about embracing the spirit of tinkering as a way of discovering better and helpful things worth loving and embracing.

The inverse of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity applies: it’s decidedly sane when we do things differently, over and over again, and expect different results.

Sometimes you will have the end in mind, other times you won’t. Either way, if you need to know or simply wonder what new possibilities are available for the world, the only way is to play with new means or reconfigure current ones.

No need to wait for baker’s chocolate to run out to go do it.
What you need to know about employee sharing option schemes
Tags: Employees, Employee Engagement, Business Strategy, Sharing, Business

First published — https://docpro.com/blog28/how-to-use-employee-share-options-schemes-to-build-motivation

Employee Share Options Schemes are often used by start-ups to enhance the motivation of employees and align their interests with that of the company, in particular in situations where start-ups may not be able to match the market salaries of the employees competitively. After all, it’s the dedication and perseverance of your team that will ultimately help transform your start-up into a viable and profitable business. Like most successful entrepreneurs, your requirements for motivating employees would encompass improving productivity while maintaining low costs. This article will discuss several methods and illustrate how employee share options schemes are becoming an increasingly popular method to motivate employees in start-ups. What are Employee Share Options Schemes? Employee share options scheme is a type of contract given by the employer which allows the employee to purchase a certain number of shares of the company’s stock, at a fixed price, over a specific time period. The two common types of schemes are: Incentive Stock Options (ISO) and Non-Qualified Stock Options (NSO).

1. What is an Incentive Stock Options (ISO) scheme?

Incentive stock options (ISO) are rights to buy stocks of the company at a discount, usually provided as a company benefit to employees. ISOs are issued on the grant date, which gives employees the right to exercise their options on the exercise date. Once the option is executed, the employee can choose to sell the stock immediately or wait for a period of time before selling. ISOs usually contain a vesting schedule that employees must meet to exercise options. ISOs can usually be executed at a price lower than the current market price, thereby allowing employees to directly profit from the sale of shares.

2. What is a Non-Qualified Stock Options (NSO) scheme?

Read more at: https://docpro.com/blog28/how-to-use-employee-share-options-schemes-to-build-motivation
My own Business
By: Almas Afzal
Tags: Clothing Brand, Business Development, Business Strategy, Enterpreneurship, Work

My own Business

Here will discuss my business entrepreneurship that we’ve started in 2020. It was a very difficult situation in Pakistan due to covid-19 but we feel it is necessary for this covid time to make a brand that will overcome people’s need of embroided collection because at that time shops were close and every work turn online. our business idea was for those people who could not go outside for festive collection so we introduce ‘’The Laraib ‘’it is introduced in our little nephew’s name. here we introduced different kinds of embroidered dresses in different colors to overcome people's needs.

Difficulties

We face some difficulties as other people face it was the time of covid and situation was that we could not go easily to market visits or some designer visits it was a very difficult task for us so we try to manage it. The designer’s demands were too high in pandemic so we pay double prices. also did a lot of time in printing etc.

Outcome

Not a great outcome yet because it is our start it will take some time when people recognize the brand and like other brands, it will establish its name in the marketplace.

Registration

The Laraib is a registered brand and we have its sub-brand ‘’ Lions’’ for men’s collection.

Overviews

overall a good startup and will take place in the market in a very few time
Why you should get one’s hands-on Email Marketing Services?
By: Nitin Sharma
Tags: Startup, Email Marketing, Digital Marketing, Business Strategy, Business

Why you should get one’s hands-on Email Marketing Services?

Photo by Anthony Fomin on Unsplash

Many of us have a website, merely a blog, or writing in the medium. Creating great content, spending hours on creative ideas, marketing on different platforms like Quora, Facebook, Linkedin then also we are not triumphant with our performance.

Readers can’t able to get our content; they can’t able to get a notification when we publish our content.

Do you ever realize…

What are we lacking? The answer is pretty simple, Email Marketing.

Spend some time on the internet and you will get to know almost every top Blogger, Writer uses E-mail Marketing for their subscriber.

Why is it so? Several surveys revealed that email is one of the strongest used platforms for driving sales.

Now you all want to build an E-mail marketing platform, and yeah we have numerous great platforms as well like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or Sendinblue. But which we have to choose? Which will be best for us might be daunting? Since all are great platforms with lots of opinions out there.

Yes, I have used all of the three platforms mentioned above and I like them all. But it’s not for everyone. I am going in some detail to consider the factors which might influence your decision between the three of these Email Marketing platform.

Last but not the least, I know many of you are beginners so don’t worry I am going to keep this in mind to make you an expert Email Marketer as well.

What is Email Marketing?

Before jumping directly to ConvertKit, Mailchimp or Sendinblue you should know about Email Marketing a little bit.

According to neilpatel.com, Email marketing is a digital marketing strategy based on sending emails and developing relationships with prospects and customers. An effective email marketing strategy convert prospects into customers and turn first time buyers into recurring customers. One advantage of email marketing is that you can automate the entire process.

In my opinion, this is one of the most brilliant definitions of What Email Marketing is.

It is simply a way of sending emails to customers to promote services or products. It is also used for delivering important information to Email subscribers for free as well as to build a network.

Email Marketing is also used for building relations with subscribers.
CONTENT MAY BE KING BUT ENGAGEMENT IS QUEEN
By: Fakeorange Creative
Tags: Engagment, Business Development, Business Strategy, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing

This is the reason micro influencers have been proven far more effective in influencer marketing then celebrity posts and influencers with followers in the millions. ENGAGEMENT.

The amount of followers you have doesn’t matter as much as the engagement your posts receive.and if you engage back. When people feel seen, when they feel like they might know you, even just a little

bit. They are more emotionally invested in your brand. When people

are emotionally invested in your brand they tend to financially invest in it to. some ways to raise your engagement are to write interesting captions. (Do not try and over curate your life and make yourself seem perfect. That will make people feel like you are unapproachable.) Ask your followers questions. in the caption, people love it when you value their opinion it also makes them feel a part of your process and it helps establish further connection with you and when all else fails, and you are too busy, hire a social media manager with awesome graphic design

skills.
How to Stay ‘Engineering Fresh’ After Bootcamp
By: Megan, Thadev
Tags: Learning, Learning To Code, Software Development, Software Engineering, Bootcamp

Digital Image. KeepCalmAndPosters. 15 December 2020.

You have graduated a Technical Bootcamp or maybe you have graduated with a degree from an accredited college - either way… Congrats to you! No matter how difficult it may have been or how many times you may have considered ‘throwing in the laptop’, you have done it! You have accomplished what you set out to do and even if you feel like a lamb in a room full of lions (in regards to your new-career-job-search), rest assured that you can do this! You can be successful in your new career and you will continue to grow!

Digital Image. 21 December 2020.
keys to improving your skills in tech
By: Alexa Liaskovski
Tags: Computer Science, Learning To Code, Software Development, Programming, Students

GO BIG AND LEARN A LOT

Okay, back to goal-setting. Before you commit yourself to an activity, whether that’s a side project, a club, or anything else, ask yourself what you want to get out of the experience. What skills do you want to learn or further develop? If you already have lots of evidence of a certain skill on your resume, will this experience demonstrate a new skill?

If you’re trying to learn a lot of different things quickly, commit yourself to the biggest thing you can for a short period of time. For example, you want to develop your leadership skills so you sign up to help organize a hackathon: throw yourself into a director role, learn as much as you can from the experience over the course of a semester, then move on to the next thing.

Aim for as senior of a role as you can, don’t worry about how much experience you already have. No one cares if you’re “just a first year” student; if you’re given the role, you deserve it.

I don’t recommend sticking around the same clubs year after year; while there is some satisfaction in climbing the ranks of a familiar organization, each year you will be working on about the same problems, and you will learn less and less each time. Do the thing for one semester, then take what you learned to a new organization, where you can take on new problems and meet new people.

Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on Unsplash

step two: pick a thing and do it.

So on to the meat of this article. Assuming you’ve reflected on what you already know and what skills you want to develop, the following will be some ideas for what you can to further develop skills that would be valuable for a software development role.

First and foremost, prioritize opportunities that interest you. I subscribe to the belief that as long as you enjoy everything that you do, you won’t get burned out. As students, we don’t yet know what we like or what we want to do with our careers. Go after opportunities that interest you, and if you realize it wasn’t as great as you thought it would be, move on to something else.
Why do colleges still teach C and C++ when you can’t even build anything with these programming languages?
Tags: Skills, Learning, Learning To Code, C, Development

Wow. You might as well be asking, “Why do colleges still teach chemistry, when you can’t use any chemical element or chemical compound for anything?” or “Why do colleges still teach English, when you can’t even write a book or paper or paragraph or sentence with it?” The fact is, the C and C++ programming languages can be used to build any type of software you can think of. It has been done, and it continues to be done today.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume someone told you that you “can’t build anything” using C or C++. That person, frankly, has no clue what they’re talking about. And anyone who states this is risking loss of their credibility in the industry. Be careful what you pass along…don’t just trust and echo whatever you happen to hear or read. In this case, either the source is grossly misinformed, or they have some sort of agenda which includes an attempt to discredit two perfectly good, widely used programming languages.
Wrap up 2020 on a positive note and get inspired for 2021
By: Practicum Yandex
Tags: Learning To Code, Codingbootcamp, Tech, Data, Students

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
Coding Flatty or Fatty?
By: Ezzy Elliott
Tags: Python, Learning To Code, Tdd, Programming, Coding

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash

To learn to code you have to master three things:

You need to know what it is possible to code

You need to understand the process of coding. It is not like doodling but a disciplined process

You need to not reinvent the wheel and stand on the shoulders of others by following well-established designs and using Google for research

Python

To know what is possible you need to learn well at least one coding language. Others can be then picked up quite easily. Python is an excellent language to start with because it is general purpose and popular.

To learn Python complete an online course such as https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python.

Read a book such as https://livebook.manning.com/book/the-quick-python-book-third-edition/about-this-book/.

This will get you started. To really learn you need an IDE, editor built for coding such as https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download.

TDD

The process of coding is called TDD, test-driven development. A good way into understanding this is to do Kata test-driven coding puzzles on websites such as https://www.codewars.com/.

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

Python is an excellent language to start with because it has a big library of already written programs that you can use in your programs to solve problems. The wheel does not have to be reinvented. You can then google anything you do not know and find answers from sites such as https://stackoverflow.com/.

Conclusion

Then it is just time and practice, 10,000 hours to become a genius. The best way to do this is to build something that solves a problem for someone. It does not need to be innovative just something that motivates you. Remember you eat an elephant one bite at a time.

Fatty or flatty it does not matter beauty is in the eye of the beholder and coding is for everyone.
Rolling The Dice
Tags: Rynofish, Learning To Code, Noob, Python Programming, Coding

What Do I Need The Program To Do.

1- It needs to take input from the user regarding the range of the dice.

2- It needs to randomly choose a number from that range.

3- Display that number on the screen.

4- Needs to be repeatable after each roll.

I decided to break this program into two sections.

Section 1: Will deal with the top 3 needs mentioned.

Section 2: Will deal with the repeatable part.

The cleanest and simplest way in my option is to create two functions, one for each section.

To make things even clearer I named the two sections to help me out.

Section 1: The Dice Roll function.

Section 2: The Keep Rolling function.

Alright, lets code.
Keyframe Confusion
By: Kristin Treder
Tags: Unity, Unity3d, Learning To Code, Cinematography

Today I continued the adventure of working on The Great Fleece, the Stealth & Cinematography game. I placed the actors (called blocking) and through the course of completing the tutorials, reviewed the director notes on the shots we’re supposed to get. I set up two CineMachine virtual cameras with each positioned to capture the director’s desired angles.

View from Over-The-Shoulder virtual camera.

I then created the new animations in the timeline: an Over-The-Shoulder shot and what’s called a mid shot, which is a shot from the waist up. I manipulated the two shots in the timeline window so that they transitioned from the first to the second shot rather seamlessly and I was really impressed with Unity’s ability to “meld” the scenes together with simply adjusting a slider. Just by overlapping the scenes, Unity was able to smoothly pan from the OTS shot camera position to the Mid shot position. Mind-blowing!

However, instead of just having a static camera rolling and capturing the character’s animation, you’re able to move the cameras and pan around the scene in whatever way you see fit.

View from Mid shot virtual camera.

I captured the first desired animation by panning the OTS camera up and over the shoulder of the main character. The second shot (so far) is just still the video of the main character from another angle but from a static point. And then here’s where I encountered the problems.

This new panning animation (like all animations) can be manipulated in the Animation window of the editor and is stored in multiple keyframes for various positions at various times. The fatal mistake I made was to accidentally delete my very first keyframe and then UNDO/REDO so many times and start on different paths that I am so far unable to restore this very first starting keyframe.

I’m going to be conducting some research on keyframes to see if I can make this initial keyframe on my own and if this doesn’t work, I’ll be starting this section over. Stay tuned for the final verdict.
The Jump into Makers Academy
By: Sean Edwards
Tags: Makersacademy, Learning To Code, Makers

I am currently sat on my sofa at home, after completing my Makers pre-course, four weeks of coding in Ruby. This is quite a change from my normal Tuesday afternoon. So I thought I would share my journey so far…

For the last 11 years I’ve have worked in the NHS as a Chartered Physiotherapist. Alongside this I was extremely lucky to play Rugby semi-professionally for Bishops Stortford Rugby Club.

Photo from RadiologyInfo.org

In my day job for the last four years I worked as a, Extended Scope Spinal Practitioner and Chronic pain specialist (quite a mouthful) for Mid Essex NHS Trust. This entailed a split week, working half of the time within spinal orthopaedic surgical clinics and the other half working in the pain management clinic. Both roles needed high levels of clinical reasoning, problem solving, good communication, teamwork and high levels of empathy.

Alongside my NHS work my spare time was always taken up with my passion, RUGBY. I have played all my life since I was six when my father took me to my local club in Dorset and I feel in love. Over the years I have played in South Africa, New Zealand, France and Ireland. I won two national league titles with my adopted club Bishops Stortford RFC and helped them reach their highest league position within National League 1. I also represented Hertfordshire County winning the county championship title in 2011. My crowning glory came with my England caps won in Georgian and Romanian tours for England Counties Rugby.

Enough of this self indulgence in my sporting memories. What brought me to coding and Makers?

Unfortunately in late 2018 I was involved in a motorcycle accident which left me with permanent part paralysis of my right arm. After numerous operations to put me back together, I had to retire from rugby but continued to work as an ESP and 1st VX forwards coach at BSRFC. With all the extra spare time, I started to do some self reflection and decided that a career change was the challenge I needed.

I had always had an interest in coding but had never explored it due to other commitments and TIME. I started to tentatively dip my toe into the world of learning code in early 2020. I loved the challenge and the problem solving elements of coding. By June I knew that this was a career I needed to explore. I was pointed towards Makers by some Makers alumni and friends within the tech world. The overall structure and ethos of Makers really stood out and I took the plunge leaving the NHS and joining the pre-course at the end of November 2020. Now five weeks in I am excited about starting the full course in January, with an acute awareness that this is going to be one big learning curve!

I hope to keep you updated with my progress here on medium. Thanks for reading.
Spawning in Waves
By: Benjamin Lihn
Tags: Unity, Game Development, Learning To Code, C Sharp Programming

Very interesting day on the Core Programming front today… Ultimately, I was able to implement the enemy spawn wave feature, as required toward course completion. Here’s a brief rundown of how I did it:

Move enemy spawning behavior into a coroutine

Introduce a wave number variable, to be incremented each time a wave is finished

Implement a SpawnState variable, which can be set to COUNTING, WAITING, or SPAWNING

Utilize the existing method for spawning, and call it during SPAWNING state

Add a boolean check to see if all of the spawned enemies have been destroyed

Implement an IEnumerator to increment the wave number

line 10 is only working as type transform, not GameObject

almost there… can I instantiate a different way and still count in newEnemies.count ?

After some tinkering, I was able to get this method working very well… but with only one enemy type. I have the ability to assign the transform in Unity’s inspector, but only one type. In my previous enemy spawning setup, I had the spawn manager choose randomly between the four enemy types.

When I try to introduce an array to the enemy (either as a transform or as a GameObject), Unity throws me quite a few errors. When I try to serialize the field for the enemy (to be instantiated), it throws off my enemy count that is the lever between spawn states.

I have to do some investigating to solve the issue and be able to randomly generate which enemy type is to be spawned. But the behavior is working currently, and it makes the game quite a bit more challenging.

I’ll also be adding a text element to the UI in between waves.
2021 Habit Tracker — Configurable for Lifetime
By: Aakash Shah
Tags: Learning To Code, Google Sheets, Humane Tech, Coding, Habit Building

If you decide to read further, this article consists of couple free advices and lessons learned about computer programming. This article itself is a quick example how you could use coding to provision a tool for yourself and reuse it for your lifetime. Knowing how to code is one of the best skill one could learn and it is very easy to get started. There are plenty of articles on Medium and elsewhere to learn how to code so I will just give you a running start.

I have used Google App Script to code a configurable tracker on Google Sheets. I will make you the rubber duck while explaining how you could use this tool to make yourself a habit tracker.

The Calendar 📆

The calendar sheet is a printable sheet where you can hit Ctrl/Cmd + P to print the habit tracker and pin 📌 a copy on your wall. Start tracking!

Some tracker art.

The Habits ⛹🏻‍♂️

The habits sheet is a customizable list of habits that you would like to track in a year. ProTip: You can add emoticons to your habits list for a dash of bling!

The Configuration ⚙️

The configuration sheet helps you to add customization as per your likings. You can change the year, timezone, theme and emoticons.

Configuration sheet allows you to configure the year you are making the tracker for.

After you have configured the settings or updated your habits you will have to run a script to generate the new calendar for you according to your settings.
How to loop (or iterate) through keys and values in a dictionary using Python
By: Joe Cardillo
Tags: Python, Learning To Code, Python3, Programming, Coding

In my effort to start writing again about my coding journey again, I figured I’d start jotting down small learns, or things I’d like to reinforce in my own words.

Specifically, I recently needed to iterate through both keys and values in a dictionary.

For example, here is my (fake) meal plan for the week:

meal_plan = {

"Monday": "tuna sandwiches",

"Tuesday": "crackers and cheese",

"Wednesday": "caesar salad",

"Thursday": "spaghetti and meatballs",

"Friday": "pizza"

}

Now if I had a simple list, like this:

meals = ["tuna sandwiches", "crackers and cheese", "caesar salad", "spaghetti and meatballs", "pizza"]

I’d be able to do this with a for loop:

for meal in meals:

print(meal)

The result would be:

tuna sandwiches

crackers and cheese

caesar salad

spaghetti and meatballs

pizza

However, to iterate through both keys and values simultaneously, I can do the following:

for day, food in meal_plan.items():

print(f"On {day}, I'll make {food}.")

In this example, day is the key, and food is the value. items() will “Return a new view of the dictionary’s items ( (key, value) pairs)” so that we can iterate through it.

(Source: https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/stdtypes.html#dict.items)

The result is:
Learning to code can be easy
By: Kaya Jones
Tags: Beginner Coding, Programmer, Learning To Code, Programming Languages, Coding

Pick a Programming Langauge

There are tons of programming languages and picking one can be intimidating. Also, there is a ton of information out there where developers have their own personal opinion and all the info can be an overload all at once.

I would suggest picking a pathway where you have an interest. If it's web development, I would start with HTML & CSS. if it's anything other than web development then I would start with Python.

Python is a programming language where it gives you a great foundation and also it is a key to many different pathways. In this article, I am going to from the standpoint of python.

Say Goodbye to Youtube

A beginner mistake is to get lost in the youtube crash course realm. Yes, you can follow along, but after you finish what do you really learn.

Instead, go straight to the source. Go right to the documentation of that programming language. Every programming language documentation gives you a tutorial for you.

Look at all the upsides of reading the documentation, you get the information fresh, you save time, and you can listen to music while you read.

The documentation for Python

Learn the syntax

In the first-week go through the documentation in a split-screen setting. Have your documentation on the left and a text editor of your choice on the right. It's imperative to perform the concepts as a source of practice into getting comfortable with the syntax. Once you get comfortable with the syntax you are also learning the principles of that programming language. You begin to learn which principles to use in certain situations.

Implement a library

The reason I say go straight to a library other than starting a project because when you are implementing a library you are using the principles that you learned and are actually putting them to work.

So it's a 2 for 1 situation. Number one you are building something more advanced and number two you are actually understanding what is going on.

Going straight into a project can get you trapped into just copying someone else's code so you won’t learn anything on your own.

I would say to implement selenium, it is used for web automation. You can make some really cool bots with selenium

selenium documentation
Lots of marble.
By: Kristin Treder
Tags: Unity, Unity3d, Learning To Code, Unity Asset Store, C Sharp Programming

Today I tied up some loose ends on my 2D Space Shooter Pro game and then decided to go ahead and start on the Stealth Game & Cinematography course. Given that we only have a week left of this program, I wanted to make sure I had contacts readily available for help if I so needed it.

In the first lesson I completed, entitled Environment & Lighting, I learned how to assign materials to blank structural objects and manipulate their perceived surfaces. I made new materials, utilized the Unity Asset Store to find patterns (we’re using a lot of marble) and then manipulated those surfaces to represent real-life textures.

For example, when placing the dark marble pattern on this pillar, we visually shrunk the size of the marble pattern by increasing the number of tiles. We also changed the “metallic” and “roughness” properties using a slider in the Shader component. The metallic slider controls the amount of reflected light and can make a surface look more or less metallic while the roughness slider controls how scattered the (perceived) reflected light is, the more scattered looking rougher and more unified light refection looking smoother.

We also were able to simulate the looks of windows. I learned how to make a material opaque to translucent and all the way to transparent using the opacity slider in the color picker.

One thing I would like to note is the vastness of the Unity Asset Store. It’s an absolutely *huge* library of textures and objects and finishes to choose from. So much so that it seems even a beginner can get a pretty sophisticated looking game going. And that’s exciting!