14 – Setting up a New MacBook Pro for Web Development
Recently I bought a new MacBook Pro. It was a big purchase for me. The first new laptop in nearly 10 years! The previous one was also a MBP…
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13 – Functions Part 3
This is part 3 of a series on functions. When I was first starting to learn web development, there were some aspects of functions that were…
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12 – Functions Part 2
In Part 0 of this series , I started by saying that functions encapsulate behaviors of a program. Then in Part 1 , I described how to…
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11 – Factorial Function
The other day, a colleague said that he'd recently had an interview where they asked him to write a factorial function. A factorial is what…
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10 – Functions Part 1
In the last post about functions , I used the analogy of buying coffee from a store to demonstrate: functions as behaviors of a program…
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9 – Functions Part 0
Confusion When I first started learning programming, functions were super confusing to me. There seemed to be so many different kinds…
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8 – Learn to SSH
Recently I bought a raspberry pi to experiment with. I want to try things like: running a simple server experimenting with different…
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7 – Scope
Before I start, just a quick note. All the code examples will be in javascript. That way they can be tried quickly and easily in the browser…
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6 – Programming Concepts Part 0
When I first started learning programming, there were quite a few basic concepts that I struggled with over and over. Now that I've been…
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5 – Building a Wordpress HTML Sitemap Plugin
This is going to be a two part post on building an HTML sitemap plugin for Wordpress. If you know about building Wordpress plugins and…
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4 – Quick Aliases for git
The other day at work I got ridiculously tired of typing out git commands in the terminal. I'd been updating our repos all day and was…
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3 – Using Tags and Categories in Gatsby.js
I started this site by following the great tutorials and documentation on the Gatsby JS site a while ago. But, one of the things I…
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2 – Backwards and Forwards (or — Palindrome checker)
Building on the techniques used in the last post, I’m going to write a simple function that checks to see if a given word is a palindrome or…
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1 – THE qck brn FOX!
In this post, I’m going to show how to change a string (in this case a sentence) using JavaScript string and array methods. Today's…
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