React, the Basic Concepts

From what it is, to who uses it and how, here’s a little rundown of ReactJS/React.

JavaScript Your Relationships — A Review of Functions, Callbacks, and Promises

Getting the best out of JavaScript is a lot like being a good partner.

Svelte — Thoughts on a video introduction by its creator

npm — What is it, why its cool

Read here for the basic of basics on npm packages

TypeScript — A Brief Primer

I give the what, why, and a little of the how of TypeScript. It’s probably up to you to fill in the who, when, and where.

Unit Testing — Putting Your Test Foot Forward

The skinny on writing your code test first and piece by piece

Git Part II — Advanced Gittiness

Here further on the path of Git, we get more into the powerful commands and operations that can save your butt, or really get you into trouble.

Git Part I — The Basics

An insult to British people, but also a system of file version control

Learning Code — Tips on Research (and Repetition)

When you boil it down, learning to code is a lot like learning a language. Or rather, learning several groups of syntactically similar sub-languages that change all the time, most of which will inevitably one day be abruptly obsolete.

Basketball Stat-tastic Final Project Week 6 — Off into the Sunset

Always have to end on a make

Basketball Stat-tastic — Log of the Final Project, Week 5, the worst sequel

How to totally crush it coding in 24 hours (sleep? Ha!)

Basketball Stat-tastic — Log of the Final Project, Week I.V. (Incremental Victory)

Basketball Stat-tastic — Log of the Final Project, Week The Third

Front-end frolics: displaying basic team, global stat adding modals, loading spinners, and modules

Basketball Stat-tastic — Log of the Final Project, Week II

In which I ‘finish’ the backend, and start planning the front

Basketball Stat-tastic — Log of the Final Project, Week 1

Join me on a several week journey putting together a full-stack, pure JavaScript basketball roster app…

Of Todo App Backends — hooking up a local app to an API database

This week in projects, a marriage of convenience: static site to-do app and API

Database-ics — Distinguishing SQL, NoSQL, and the Field

We cover the basics of modern database ideology: what they do, what they don’t, and what they kinda…

Getting in the Node — Node.js, Express, and Template Engines

What they are, when they are used, and who uses them

The Rite of Passage — The Todo App

To do it, to do it, to do it right, yeah?

Advanced Function Concepts — Recursion, Scopes and Closures, and Spread Operators

In this weeks topics, we repeat ourselves, contemplate invasion by aliens, and make punctuation dad jokes.

Functions, Objects, and Arrays — Know the F.O.A.

Learn a little about an how functions function, if objects object, and how arrays are arrayed in JavaScript.

JAMStack Blog Post

What is JAMStack, and is it delicious?

From what it is, to who uses it and how, here’s a little rundown of ReactJS/React.

Getting the best out of JavaScript is a lot like being a good partner.

Rich Harris seems a smart cookie, and sells his slender, graceful (and other synonyms for svelte) JS framework very well

Read here for the basic of basics on npm packages

I give the what, why, and a little of the how of TypeScript. It’s probably up to you to fill in the who, when, and where.

The skinny on writing your code test first and piece by piece

Here further on the path of Git, we get more into the powerful commands and operations that can save your butt, or really get you into trouble.

An insult to British people, but also a system of file version control

When you boil it down, learning to code is a lot like learning a language. Or rather, learning several groups of syntactically similar sub-languages that change all the time, most of which will inevitably one day be abruptly obsolete.

Always have to end on a make

How to totally crush it coding in 24 hours (sleep? Ha!)

Style slogging, validation vetting, tooltip tapping, and %$#% #$%^#$ API call chaining

Front-end frolics: displaying basic team, global stat adding modals, loading spinners, and modules

In which I ‘finish’ the backend, and start planning the front

Join me on a several week journey putting together a full-stack, pure JavaScript basketball roster app…

This week in projects, a marriage of convenience: static site to-do app and API

We cover the basics of modern database ideology: what they do, what they don’t, and what they kinda…

What they are, when they are used, and who uses them

To do it, to do it, to do it right, yeah?

In this weeks topics, we repeat ourselves, contemplate invasion by aliens, and make punctuation dad jokes.

Learn a little about an how functions function, if objects object, and how arrays are arrayed in JavaScript.

What is JAMStack, and is it delicious?