How To REALLY Do Code Reviews [Video]

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Welcome to the follow-up to How To Do Code Reviews, with many moooooore details on the human factors involved in a code review, as well as several options on how to approach reviewing pull requests.

Just a quick recap, what is the scenario? A user sent in a GitHub pull request for our Google Photos clone, which means we have to do a code review. How should you do such a review? What is or isn't important? Let's find out in this episode of Marco Codes.

Gradle Tutorial: Crash Course [Video]

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Ever looked for a comprehensive tutorial for Gradle that is fun and entertaining at the same time?

In this video tutorial below, you'll learn how to use Gradle like a professional. Cover topics including using the Gradle wrapper, using Gradle together with IDEs, and Gradle basics like build.gradle, settings.gradle, running commands (clean build), as well as understanding multi-project Gradle builds. By the end of it, there won't be many questions left when it comes to Gradle.

JDBC Tutorial: Nice and Easy [Video]

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Ever looked for a comprehensive intro to JDBC that is fun and entertaining at the same time? Then have a look at this brand-new episode of the "Marco Codes" YouTube channel: JDBC Tutorial: Nice and Easy.

In this video, you'll learn how to use JDBC, the basic API that every Java program uses to access databases. Understand what JDBC drivers are and where to get them, as well as learn how to use an embedded H2 database in addition to the usual suspects like MySQL or Postgres. Fire off SQL select, insert, update and delete statements from Java. Finally, learn about connection pools and the overall Java database framework/library landscape. By the end of the tutorial, there won't be many questions left when it comes to accessing databases with Java.