Learning to Program

Personal Blogs: Hidden Gems

Although you should be wary of information found on random websites, you can find some valuable information on blogs. Professional programmers like to write about the problems they have solved, and this writing usually ends up on their blogs. Documentation and tutorials are great, but nothing can beat the value of a real person describing a real-world problem and its solution. Still, before you trust the information, research the authors. Check out their LinkedIn profile, StackOverflow profile (see the upcoming section, “StackOverflow”), GitHub profile (see Chapter 15, “Advanced Topics”), Twitter profile, and any other resources you can find. If they seem to know what they are talking about, you have found a great ...