As any beginner programmer sets off on their journey it’s important to understand AJAX, and what it can do for you in your program. Let’s jump in! AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript and XML AJAX allows you to update content on a web page without loading a new page. (Real life examples: Google maps- if you make…

While learning and using CSS can be a tricky one, I find it to be a fun tech language. I love learning about all the slight/minute adjustments that can be made with CSS to make your page pop and look just the way you want. …

3 step guide for building eventListener in a form button. Hi all! The wide and wonderful world of coding leads us down so many roads to learn new skills and technologies. I thought today I would hone into the basics by building a basic JavaScript form using HTML, CSS, and…

Beginners walkthrough to iterate over a JS Object Something essential to Javascript fundamentals is …iterating over an object! Am I right?! Whenever we make calls from a database to our web app to render data we usually receive a JSON object that needs to be parsed through. …

React Test-Driven-Development Journey/Tutorial for Beginners — Hi all! This blog is meant to fill out my blog tutorial workout from last week. Join me in this part two of the Learning React Test-Driven Development Tutorial, and we will continue to dive deeper into Test-Driven-Development. …

React Test-Driven-Development Journey/Tutorial for Beginners — Many apps have been made and conquered, but let’s get down to it and ask a real question here. Does your app include tests? Do you know how to implement tests? Having learned React from a coding school, I will say I have not yet stumbled upon building tests into…

Beginner’s Ruby knowledge, with a focus on variable scope. Hey there my coding friends. Today, I thought I’d talk about the coding language Ruby. For anyone out there who just started learning it or is interested in learning the language, this blog is for you! So listen up! I will…

An introductory walkthrough of React controlled/uncontrolled components. — Let’s take a gander into React and talk about components. If you have used React before you should be familiar with components. One of the main features of React is components, and React supports two kinds: controlled and uncontrolled. Let’s uncover the main differences between controlled and uncontrolled components. Controlled Components

Understand what arrow functions are and when it’s best to use them. When Javascript ES6 was released in June 2015, it brought the introduction of arrow functions to the developer game. …