Today, we’re going to learn some of the basics of flexbox and it’s properties including direction, wrap, order, grow, shrink, justify-content and align-items. We’ll use a simple structure to practice these skills between 2 files — index.html and a style.css. The site…

Data warehouses include data from databases as well as operational and external sources. They are traditionally built on relational databases, but can built on multidimensional; you can think of the database as the platform (‘base’) and the warehouse as the usage. Data warehouses access and copy data from sources using…

A big part of TypeScript is catching potential errors before they happen. To empower this tool, using proper types is necessary. In this blog, I will outline a few of the advanced types included with TypeScript. Intersection An intersection type allows you to combine multiple types. Let’s consider a college course.

Sass is described as a ‘preprocessor scripting language.’ Essentially, it gives you additional functionality when writing CSS code. One feature added is called a mixin. You can think of mixins like a function in a sense that it is a reusable piece of code — the difference being that does…

Data structures are ways of organizing information with optimal ‘runtime complexity’ for adding, editing or removing records. Today, I will explore queues, stacks and linked lists. Queue Queues are like your typical ticketing counter. Records, or ‘customers’ will enter on one side and exit on another. This is classified as a…

Since graduating from Flatiron school a little over a month ago, I have spent a little time each day studying JavaScript algorithms. One question that gave me some trouble is the matrix dilemma. It goes as such: Write a function that accepts an integer and returns a spiral matrix with…

After learning about React’s component lifecycle methods, it was clear to see the benefit and use-cases for a few of them. ComponentDidMount and render (naturally) were immediately put into practice within my projects. However, understanding the specific uses of the remainder of these methods seemed abstract. Therefore, I decided to…

Our cohort was introduced to the prototype property for Javascript concurrently with our lessons in object-oriented Javascript. I sought to learn more and will share some initial discoveries in this post. What is it? First, it is important to note that while the prototype property becomes extremely relevant when building…

Into month two of my software engineering program, our cohort has been given the task to build a website application using Ruby on Rails, HTML and CSS. Beyond the user experience/interface aspects of styling, and the functionality of built-in models and classes, we were also exposed to the idea of…