You’d Think After All The Time I’ve Spent On Front-end Dev I’d Be Able To At Least Write Efficient

I do hope I’m not the only one who takes 8 hours to decide on a font stack. And it still never feels exactly right.

Scene: I’m sitting in my dorm room the first semester of college.

I finally get my code working and am doing the final cleanup before submitting. I delete some lines that I had commented out because, you know, I was scared to get rid of them at the time in case they became useful later.

I run my code after deleting the aforementioned COMMENTS just to make sure everything still works. As expected, it works! Then it doesn’t. Then it works again! And again! Then it doesn’t. I put the comment back in just in case that’s what was keeping everything together (see: superstition) and it works for 6 straight tests, which thoroughly confuses me.

I ultimately found out that the problem was not, in fact, with the comments that do nothing but actually with an integer I was declaring and incrementing without ever initializing, creating “random” behavior.

It really be like that sometimes

A lot of computer science algorithms are just means to describe activities humans do naturally.

Sorting a list? Humans do it no problem; heck, in a vacuum one might adhere exactly to a quicksort + insertionsort hybrid (a speedy combo on many datasets) without even knowing it.

Bigger example: graph theory. The foundation of modern databases, neural networks, and gps routing came from the contemplation of the people of Königsberg. Euler just harnessed raw thought into a concrete set of rules and instructions that further our innate abilities.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Seven Bridges of Königsberg - Wikipedia

Seven Bridges of Königsberg - Wikipedia

Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths

It’s an honor and a privilege to be a part of codeblr

Hiya! I've compiled a list of some of the currently active Tumblr blogs that are dedicated to all things coding and programming - this includes frontend dev, backend dev, web dev, game dev, etc. These are blogs I also follow (I try to follow as many as I can) and I like what they post, and I just wanted to share it with more people!

I will keep updating this post whenever a new blogger pops up or if some blogs deactivate - some of my fav blogs deactivated which is super sad since I loved seeing their coding posts on my dashboard! Anyways, onto the blogs!

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@code-es ☆ @web-dev-with-bea ☆ @mileotero ☆ @sunlearnscoding ☆ @anndcodes ☆ @kirjh ☆ @zoeythebee ☆ @psychoticdesigns ☆ @yyshenblog ☆ @shivanitanwarsblog ☆ @cloudylogs ☆ @aleksey-kivaiko ☆ @simplywebstuff ☆ @codingflicks ☆ @checks ☆ @podokonnik ☆ @adventuresincodeandcoffee ☆ @knitjumpergames ☆ @pizzatriestostudy ☆ @codeparttime ☆ @programmerhumour ☆ @avkera ☆ @datavids ☆ @womaneng ☆ @shahednasser ☆ @cssengineer ☆ @soybananamilkcodes ☆ @frithams

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Again, if there are more out there, let me know so I can update the list! If you want your @ taken off the list, let me know too! Thank you and I hope more people follow these super cool blogs and enjoy their posts the way I have! 💻💗💗

For those new to code culture, I encourage you to revisit the original post’s comment section numerous times over the coming weeks.

Because the battle over that choice for H is going to age like fine wine. Sure, sure, there’s a definitively right answer. But what power does definition hold in the face of emotion? 

Maybe we can make a scavenger hunt out of it. Point values for potential phrases below:

{

     “Describes” : 1,      “Instructions” : 2,      “Markup Language” : 3,     “Haskell” : 5,      “Turing Complete” : 8

}

The only statement I’ll go on record saying is that whichever side you take, I respect you and you’re safe here.

Learn alphabet with programming languages

I feel like the creators of Scheme were really big fans of yoda’s verbal syntax.

You can change your font and you can change your float

You can set margins, that’s just the style you wrote

You can { display: none; } and you can overflow

But you’ll always google how to center a <div>.

I watched a youtube video about GraphQL last night and it is not at all what I thought it was. And then it made me realize that SQL, too, isn’t what I thought it was. And now I feel rather silly.

Now that I have a degree in computer science, I will insist that I am a scientist and must wear a lab coat and goggles while I work as a software developer.

Console.WriteLine(”Not Bad”);

Alright so I find myself liking C# and the .NET framework. For anyone who hasn’t delved into understanding what it is and WHY it is: .NET is, like all other frameworks, a collection of tools for developers. Except this one is on steroids, and tailored to Windows BY Microsoft, meaning you can make awesome Windows applications without tracking down everything you need. It’s all just right there. 

C# is basically C++ with all of the .NET adapters actively available. You can also think of it like Java but instead of running inside of the JVM, it runs on Windows. 

Microsoft’s documentation is also really well-written for it, which is nice.

BONUS in case anyone is curious: ASP.NET is a framework that extends the overarching .NET to provide tools specifically for web application dev. I haven’t gotten far into the ASP documentation yet so I can’t say much about it other than that.