To further develop my programming skills, I have looked at learning new languages and technology. While deciding on what to focus my time and energy on learning I looked at what is different about the languages and one difference that comes up is Static or Dynamic typing within the language…

Being able to test the code you have written is an important part of coding. …

Backtracking is a general algorithm that can be used to find one or multiple solutions to some computational problems. …

For most of the projects I created while attending the Flatiron Software Engineering program and since have used Ruby/Ruby on Rails as the backend and JavaScript as the Frontend. I have since been learning Node JS as a backend language and using Express as it is a popular framework for…

When coding and working through algorithms and code challenges, if I needed to loop over or iterate through something we can use a loop. I wrote an earlier post on using a for loop which is a common loop where we loop while a condition is met and then do…

With Ruby and Ruby on Rails we can create and generate full-stack applications. If we want to we can also just use Ruby for the backend or the API with a different front-end and we can use Rails to do this. …

In programming, we can work with Matrices, which can be created with a 2d Array which is simply arrays nested inside an array (it is also possible to create greater multi-dimensional arrays 3d, 4d by further nesting). A 2d array would simply look something like this. [[1,3,9,4], [5,7,9,5], [1,1,1,2], [6,3,8,4]] …

In programming, there are several different data structures each with its own benefits and drawbacks. One of these data structures is called a Linked List, within linked lists, there are Singly-linked lists and Doubly linked lists. As the names suggest the difference between the two is singly linked lists have…

Working through data structure and algorithm problems it’s important to come up with solutions that are efficient and continue to work efficiently even as the data set gets larger. …