Fahim ul Haq

Will AI will make software engineers obsolete? Your burning AI questions answered. This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. Note: This post is adapted from a blog I originally wrote over on educative.io, called Will AI replace programmers?

Here’s a 4-step process that will help you select the optimal data structure for any problem you encounter. This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. Once you understand some programming basics, like loops and conditionals, you’re ready

What a small, yet devastating bug can teach us about effective software development This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. On July 19, we saw what might have been the largest IT outage in history. 8.5 million Windows

Why your best solution as a student won’t make it in the real-world — and that’s okay. This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. When I started my first job as a professional software developer, I was shocked

The magic starts after you click “run” This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. When I was a new programmer, there was one essential under-the-hood process that perplexed me for some time: how programs get executed. Specifically, I wondered,

This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. Note: This post is adapted from a blog I wrote for CS students over at Educative. If you’re currently a student, you can get 6 free months of access to Educative

This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. Time flies! I have been writing Letters to New Coders for two months. I sincerely hope you have found value in these letters so far. I will say, writing every week has

This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. As someone who started a company that helps people learn coding skills, I hear this question all the time: “Is learning to code hard?” (In fact, the last time I was asked

When I talk to my friends at Amazon, I can’t help but wish that I’d had the chance to be on their interviewing teams. I’ve already had my own experience conducting System Design Interviews both at Meta and Microsoft, but Amazon just plays a different ballgame. Namely,

This blog was originally published on Substack. Subscribe to ‘Letters to New Coders’ to receive free weekly posts. If writing code is day, then debugging is night. Dealing with bugs is non-negotiable in coding. In fact, the most skilled programmers are also the best at debugging. Today, I want to