7 best GitHub repositories that can help you as a developer

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A complete beginner's guide to CSS Grid layout 👇🏻

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Grid is used for making complex web design layouts more easily as it's not so hard to master

Using Flex you can make only 1D layout but Grid gives you full power of creating 2D layout

Let's start

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First things first, start with giving the display property "grid" to the container element or parent element

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Nothing will change after adding display: flex; in the parent container becuase we need to define the width of columns. In order to set that columns width we have gird-template-columns property

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Let's start with defining the width of our columns.

For example, let's say I need two columns of width 60% and 40% respectively

grid-template-columns: 60% 40%;

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"I want to learn how to code, but have no idea where to begin."

I've been getting this question pretty frequently lately, and thought it was a good time to put together a thread to cover all the basics.

And here it is!

Instead of just throwing a few links at you, I first want to cover something much more fundamental: The *reason* you want to learn to code.

I've had to train a good number of developers in my time. The ones that succeeded had rock-solid, persistent motivations. Is that you?

Some good motivations for learning how to code:

* Enabling a career change
* Insatiable curiosity, eagerness to learn
* Frustration with inefficiency + desire to improve things
* Larger goals in mind, coding being a stepping stone

Some bad motivations for learning how to code:

* It seems popular
* Your friends/family have ideas for apps
* You want to make lots of money by sitting in front of a computer
* You bought an expensive MacBook and are struggling to justify the expense

For those, trade forex.

Motivation matters, because of the one thing that's universally true about coding: It's hard.

Depending on what you do, you may have to learn several languages at once. Tools constantly update. New approaches land in the market on an annual basis. You're constantly upskilling.

You are looking to get into Machine Learning? You most certainly can
Because I believe that if an above-average student like me was able to do it, you all certainly can as well

Here's how I went from knowing nothing about programming to someone working in Data Science👇

The path that I took wasn't the most optimal way to get a good grip on Machine Learning because...

when I started out, I knew nobody that worked or had knowledge of Data Science which made me try all sorts of different things that were not actually necessary.

I studied C programming as my first language during my freshman year in college. And before the start of my second year, I started learning python just because I knew C is not the way to go.
I learned it out of curiosity and I had no idea about Machine Learning at this point.

I did not learn python by courses but by books. I'll link all the resources at the end.
The approach I took was just to make the same kind of programs I made in C but just replacing the syntax with that of python and practised those.
Already knowing a language made it easier.

For Machine Learning, the first thing that I did was to join Andrew NG's course which really hit it off for me
I didn't have to have any idea about Machine Learning for the course. I completed that in almost a month and it gave me a good intuition of things and the flow of ML.

I remember how hard it was to find resources for machine learning a couple of years ago.

Now we have so many of them, its impossible for you to not find what you're looking for.

Here are some of them 🧵

1️⃣ Kaggle

My go to place for finding datasets and code snippets, also a great place for discussions.

2️⃣ Papers with code

A collection of the latest and greatest research papers and the best part, a github repository with the code is included!

3️⃣ Kdnuggets

Guides, tutorials and articles on everything AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning.

4️⃣ Towards Data Science

A blog about data science with accessible and well written articles.

If you're learning or planning to learn Web Development in 2021 then this thread is for you

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WHERE TO START? Front-end or Backend?

- Well this may be a debatable question but I would suggest you to start with front-end development

- It depends entirely on the individual but in my opinion, starting with front-end development has its advantages.

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WHY TO START WITH FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT?

- More visual content gives you an aesthetic vibe

- You can share your creations

- Easier to get feedback as you can show your webpages to any non technical person as well

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FUNDAMENTALS ARE IMPORTANT

- Don't rush! Spend some time on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can do pretty amazing things using these three languages

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- Make sure to learn and build some web pages using HTML and CSS before jumping onto JavaScript

- JavaScript is the backbone of web development, Don't rush to start with React/Angular/vue or any other front-end framework or library

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