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November 20, 2025

Tips for Becoming a Really Good Coder at 42


Alonso Garrigues - 42 London Graduate

For C Piscine Don’t Use AI I am not saying to never use AI.But it is a detrimental tool when it comes to learning.Being a good coder is about problem solving, which is about critical thinking.When you use Chat GPT to help you solve programming problems,you are depriving your brain from learning how to think critically. Don’t Study for Exams...

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October 6, 2025

How to 42


Matilda Tice - 42 London Student

Imagine working on a project where you have to sort a list of numbers, but you can only have twosorting stacks, you can only push the first number from one stack to another, you can switch the topnumber to the bottom, or bring the bottom number up, or swap the first two numbers in a stack.Additionally, you are restricted to...

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June 18, 2025

A Glitchy Bus Stop or a Cybersecurity Risk?


Alejandro Ramos - 42 London Student

When I started my programming journey at 42 London, I did not know what to expect. It was my first approach to real programming education, and I just knew, after doing the piscine, that it would be the low-level language of C. What I did not expect is that I would also have hands-on experience with networking concepts and servers,...

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April 28, 2025

From Laser Printers to Code: How Creativity Helped Me Unlock the Mysteries of Technology


Alejandro Ramos - 42 London Student

Learning new concepts can seem daunting and confusing. I am currently working on a project called FdF (for its name in French, “Fil de Fer”). In this project, our goal is to create a wireframe representation of a 3D landscape. (In other words, a 3D graphic based on a 2D ‘map’). While reading the subject of the project, I was...

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