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A programming marathon

Every marathon starts with a single step! The beginning I've been learning to program when I entered University, where we learned the basics: loops, variables, arrays, if/else, literally nothing but the basics. My first programming language was MatLab, which is commonly used in the engineering field. Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB#/media/File:Matlab_Logo.png But a sad thing is that the lessons didn't start in a meaningful way... I had never seen a line of code before and, to see such a nonsense thing at first view was absolutely frustrating. I had no idea why I was typing what I was typing and what that code would do. Funny thing: I remember always confusing the letter i  with the number 1, which always led me intro trouble and not being able to make my script run. Even though it was a hard beginning, I definitely saw a lot of possibilities and usages to that new skill that I've been shown. Programming is absolutely a powerful tool to create sof...
Introduction Hi! My name is Rafael and you landed on my programming blog. Welcome! šŸ˜ƒ The goal of this blog is to share my thoughts and experience during my developments and programming tasks. The focus is to show my difficulties and what where the solutions that I have found. I will try to have some posts in English, since I can reach other communities using it, and others in Portuguese, since it is my mother tongue and I also want to be able to share this content with people that still struggle with other languages. I am following online programs that teach programming and have some tasks where you are expected to program and develop a software solution and I will list them in a future post. Besides that, I am focusing on learning the key concepts about programming, independently from the language or programming paradigm that I am currently using. I believe that in order to achieve a goal, one must be committed and, by sharing my experience, it will lead me to become each ...