What is Vim? Vim is a command line editor. Its predecessor was Vi — a UNIX based editor, that was eventually improved to the point, they gave it a new name: Vi IMproved. Hence: VIM. How to Get Started It’s easy to start up with Vim. I won’t cover installing since it comes prepackaged with Max &…

What’s a heap? In real life, a ‘heap’ is literally a pile of items. In computer science and programming, a heap is fairly similar, but more specific to organizing data. To understand what a ‘heap’ is, first go and understand what a ‘tree’ is. Once you’ve read and understood what a ‘tree’ is…

Searching Siblings in a Tree — What’s this all about now? A good student of computer science will probably already know this; but a tree is a way of organizing information. In computer science, it’s a very efficient method for storing data for quick retrieval later. What’s a Tree? In this case, we’re referring to a data structure that consists of nodes that inherit…

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After working on a React project for a little bit, I realized it would look a lot nicer as a single page with a “scroll-to” navigation from my site’s navbar. For React, there’s a great library called ‘react-scroll.’ But I wanted to understand the basic JavaScript of how it’s done…

Problem solving is a process. It’s easy to forget that in order to solve a problem, you need to actually focus on solving the problem. I’ve been using a Udemy course by an instructor named Colt Steele, called JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Masterclass. …

I was messing around with Google Cloud’s Text to Speech API and wanted to test it out by making the call on a Rails backend and receiving the response with a React frontend and playing the sound. I won’t go into how to use the Google Cloud Text to Speech…

This is an in-depth look at promises in JavaScript. Most of the research done was gleaned from the Mozilla Development Network (MDN) page for Promises, so definitely look below to see the link. Promises are relatively new in JavaScript and were implemented to deal with asynchronous functions and keep entire…

Hash… Hash Browns? No … Hash. I’ve been curious about the name and the purpose behind the word ‘hash.’ Referring to just the name means a datatype to store information. Referring to a ‘hash value’ is usually done in the context of authentication. In general, a hash function is a…