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📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
Loops: Doing the Same Thing Without Repeating Yourself
By Dave Milliken
Loops: Doing the Same Thing Without Repeating Yourself Dave Milliken One of the central ideas in programming is simple to state: don't repeat yourself. If a computer needs to do the same task a hundred times, you shouldn...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
Functions: Why We Break Code Into Reusable Pieces
By Dave Milliken
Functions: Why We Break Code Into Reusable Pieces Dave Milliken One of the most useful ideas in programming is also one of the simplest: if you need to do the same thing repeatedly, write it once and reuse it. This conne...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
SQL: How We Ask a Database Questions
By Dave Milliken
SQL: How We Ask a Database Questions Dave Milliken SQL: How We Ask a Database Questions SQL stands for Structured Query Language, which is one of the rare technical names that actually describes what the thing does. SQL ...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
Arrays
By Dave Milliken
Arrays Dave Milliken A single variable is genuinely useful when you've got one piece of information to store, name = "Dave", age = 50. The trouble starts the moment you've got several related values sitting in a row: Dav...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
Operators: The Symbols That Make Things Happen
By Dave Milliken
Operators: The Symbols That Make Things Happen Dave Milliken Programming languages lean on a small set of symbols to tell the computer what to do with values, and those symbols are called operators. Some of them will alr...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
What Is a Database?
By Dave Milliken
What Is a Database? Dave Milliken Split the word in two and it stops sounding technical almost immediately: data, base. A home for information. That's genuinely most of the idea. But the word doing the real work here isn...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
What Is an Algorithm?
By Dave Milliken
What Is an Algorithm? Dave Milliken The word "algorithm" gets thrown around as though it belongs exclusively to Silicon Valley boardrooms and slightly ominous news articles. It doesn't. At its simplest, an algorithm is j...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
Variables Explained Without the Jargon
By Dave Milliken
Variables Explained Without the Jargon Dave Milliken Every programming course on earth seems to open the topic of variables with some version of "a variable is a named memory location," and every single time, a room full...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
CRUD: The Four Operations Behind Most Applications
By Dave Milliken
CRUD: The Four Operations Behind Most Applications Dave Milliken Here's a fun bit of trivia before we even get started: the word "crud" has been in use since before computers existed in any form we'd recognise. Nuclear e...
📝 Article
Published in FIT Newsletter • 15 Sep 2026
DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself
By Dave Milliken
DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself Dave Milliken There's a moment I've seen play out in a classroom more times than I can count. A student is debugging an assignment, they find the bug, they fix it, they run the program again......
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