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The goal of this post is to look at the question, "How do I become a programmer?" How do I Become a Programmer? This is a loaded question! Unfortunately, an online search may give you something like the following suggestion: * Pick a programming language * Do some courses covering
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My name is Deon Slabbert and I started my professional career as a pharmacist. I left university with a B Pharm degree and a BSc (Hons) degree in Pharmacology. This extra degree came in handy when I did my 2-year compulsory military service from 1988 to 1989. This placed me
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Welcome to my Becoming a Programmer website. My name is Deon Slabbert, and I am a Fullstack Software Developer. I have been a full-time, Fullstack software developer now for the last 38+ years, and I hope to teach you how to become a Fullstack software developer as well. I build
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Please note, the content of this post has been copied from the Spring website and modified by me. SELECT public int test() { var sql = "select count(*) from product"; return this.jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql, Integer.class); } public int test() { var sql = "select count(*) from product where name = ?"
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The following code snippets demonstrate how to read and write text files in Java. Reading from Text File var fileName = Path.of("myfile.txt"); var content = Files.readString(fileName); Writing to Text File var fileName = Path.of("myfile.txt"); var content = "this is a test&
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How to retrieve values from the application.properties file using the Spring Boot framework. The application.properties File mode=development The Java File @Value(value = "${mode}") private String mode;