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code-for-a-living April 13, 2021

Level Up: Creative Coding with p5.js – parts 4 and 5

Part 4 In this session, we will make our p5.js sketches interactive! Together with Morgan, we will work on the Generative Art Creator project using the p5.js web editor! We will make a tool to create, control, and combine generative works of art inspired by early media artists, such as John Whitney and Vera Molnar.…

Jiwon Shin

code-for-a-living April 7, 2021

What international tech recruitment looks like post-COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way the tech industry works and how talent in the industry is recruited. Because everyone is remote, more companies are recruiting internationally.

Justin Lestal

code-for-a-living April 5, 2021

A look under the hood: how branches work in Git

Git branches allow you to keep different versions of your code cleanly separated. Here's a look at how they work and why you should know about them.

Tobias Günther

code-for-a-living March 31, 2021

Introducing The Key

Sometimes, everything just clicks into place.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living March 30, 2021

Level Up: Creative coding with p5.js – part 3

In this session, Cassie Tarakajian joins us to talk about all things p5.js, the Processing Foundation, and open source software.

Ben Popper and Jiwon Shin

code-for-a-living March 29, 2021

Mint: A new language designed for building single page applications

The JavaScript ecosystem has grown to become unwieldy. Mint promises is a simplified front-end development experience, but not a library or a framework—a new language designed for SPAs.

Simdi Jinkins

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code-for-a-living March 24, 2021

Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive technology forward

Moore's law enables great progress, but often it's the underlying algorithms that drive computer science forward.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 23, 2021

Level Up: creative coding with p5.js – part 2

In this session, we will turn our static drawings into animations!

Ben Popper and Jiwon Shin

code-for-a-living March 16, 2021

Level Up: Creative coding with p5.js – part 1

In the second edition of our Level Up series, we explore how to create shapes, animations, and art using p5.js.

Ben Popper and Jiwon Shin

code-for-a-living March 15, 2021

Getting started with … Rust

In this series, we look at the most loved languages according to the Stack Overflow developer survey, the spread and use cases for each of them and collect some essential links on how to get into them. First up: Rust.

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist - Former

code-for-a-living March 9, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 5

Rather than dig into complex math or over-simplify by using a pre-written function, we'll write our own binomial test function, primarily using base Python. In the process, we'll learn more about how hypothesis testing works and build intuition for how to interpret a p-value.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer