This series will be a quick and dirty, extremely simplistic overview of Express, a framework for Nodejs. The goals of the guide are to: How to setup Express Explain it’s basic parts Talk about app structure Part of the reason I’m writing this is to reinforce my own junior knowledge of the subject. Sometimes we forget how […]
Git is a file versioning system. It’s older than you or I so it’s not worth delving into it’s depths and resolving it’s mysterious ways. For now, it’s totally best to just know: it keeps multiple versions of your files. This guide doesn’t aim to give a perfect picture of Git, but just a clearer […]
In many ways, more than perhaps we’re able to realize, developer bootcamps and immersive programs like General Assembly (GA) are pioneering a frontier of education that will become a staple of the future economy. I’ve been witness to the erosion of university systems, not least because of the staggering cost. But also because Americans seem to […]
Honestly there were many lessons learned. I caught as many as I could remember here on Github: https://github.com/Protosac/pitchforks/wiki As an aspiring web developer, ever see a really cool website and think “OMG WHAT A GREAT IDEA!”? Somewhere in there you know it took a lot of work, but you also tend to believe that what makes […]
There’s actually no such command. But if you’ve got files in your repo that you’re tired of seeing in “untracked” because you’re not going to commit them:
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You’ll also have to add the .gitignore file to it’s own list so that it doesn’t show up as well.
Code is the kind of thing that the fewer words used to explain it, the clearer the lesson. The solution? Forget about traditional note-taking.There are two tools which are at the heart of my workflow (right next to Github and Sublime): Repl.it: Great for taking down examples of code and saving them. This not only lets […]
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function shuffle(array) { for(var j, x, i = array.length; i; j = Math.floor(Math.random() * i), x = array[--i], array[i] = array[j], array[j]= x); return array; }; |
Found this incredible loop on Stack Overflow while looking for an array method to shuffle my array. I was trying to do all of the above with basic iteration, but this is an incredible find. This is my little exercise: what do these elements of the loop do?
Scope mostly refers to the use of your variables. Imagine boxes inside one another. When we’re beginning a document, we’re in the global scope. As soon as the first function is written, we’re in the Local scope. Global code cannot access local code, but local code (functions) can access global. Access works from the inside […]
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var myAnimals = ["cat", "dog", "cow"]; var counter = 0; for (i = 0; i < myAnimals.length ; i++) { counter += i; } return counter; |
3 Parts to a for loop: before the loop var i = 0 , the condition for executing the loop i < myAnimals.length , and what to do when the loop finishes i++ . The loop itself is the code block passed between { }. This will be executed for as long as the condition is true.
Today was the first day of WDI at General Assembly. Mostly we covered the groundwork: how to use Git, terminal (or command line), and barebones HTML. It was definitely worth it to do the pre-work, though I’m fairly familiar with all these things currently so it wasn’t too rough. Still, it helped me get a […]