The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

Every Monday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week. ❤️

1. New Neural Pathways

Jacob shares an overview of five programming languages and their unique language characteristics and programming ideologies. Learning these languages can expand the way you problem solve!

5 Powerful Programming Languages to Stretch Your Brain

Jacob Herrington (he/him) ・ Aug 11 '19

#beginners #career #discuss #programming

2. Twenty-two Tools

A list of tools for React developers, including explanations of why each item is helpful!

22 Miraculous Tools for React Developers in 2019

jsmanifest ・ Aug 6 '19

#react #node #webdev #tools

3. Oh, The Complexity!

Sarah breaks down the concepts of Big O Notation - from what it is to why we should care.

The Big O Notation - An Introduction

Sarah Chima ・ Aug 5 '19

#algorithms #webdev #beginners

4. Better & Better

Yaser shares a bunch of tips and tricks for using Firefox Developer Tools. The community chimes in with a few more, as well!

Firefox developer tools can do that?

Yaser Adel Mehraban ・ Aug 10 '19

#firefox #developertools #webdev #showdev

5. Cool Cursor Magic

Xiaoru shares a few tips in VS Code that help their productivity, ranging from refactoring tricks to shortcuts for editing.

5 Visual Studio Code Tricks to Boost Your Productivity

hexrcs ・ Aug 8 '19

#productivity #vscode #tutorial #tools

6. Getting GraphQL

Nader shares annotated GraphQL schemas that you can use to deploy popular types of applications. In this post, we get to know the GraphQL Transform library.

GraphQL Recipes (V2) - Building APIs with GraphQL Transform

Nader Dabit for Open GraphQL ・ Aug 8 '19

#graphql #react #javascript

7. Internship Goals

While geared towards computer science students looking for internships, the advice in this post is helpful to anyone looking for new opportunities.

How I Got an Internship in Software Development as a Computer Science student🎓

yusufcodes ・ Aug 10 '19

That's it for our weekly wrap up! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and if you miss anything, we'll be sure to recap it next Monday!

Comments

[yusufcodes]

Wow guys I'm absolutely amazed to be featued here (I'm on Post #7). I joined the community over the weekend and just started writing. Thank you so much for the feature! 🎉

For anyone who's interested, I aim to use this platform to write about my experiences as a Computer Science student, extracting any advice and tips I can give people. I try to keep my posts as generic as possible, hoping that virtually anyone in the tech field can gain something from it.

Thanks again guys!

[Jacob Herrington (he/him)]

Wow, neat! Glad people enjoyed the article. Thanks, @jess 🤠