Reading Barcodes User Story: As a parent, I want to quickly log the book that I’m about to read. Continuing to work on the mobile app to inspire parents to read books with their children, I’ve decided a great feature would be the ability to track the books that were read. I think the fastest […]
For quite some time now there has been a bit of pressure on terminal users and developers to move away from bash to zsh or (Z Shell). Recently it seems to have gone to the next level with Mac OSX defaulting to zsh shell. Of course, you can continue to use bash but clearly, zsh […]
When you are working with Python, from time to time you find that you want to have a graphical user interface (GUI) to replace the command line so that it’s easier for users of your software to work with it. For a long time, this has been a difficult task. The main issue is that […]
AdeventOfCode.com is a site that has, for many years, offered an incredibly fun and challenging set of puzzles during the month of December. If you are an aspiring software engineer or a seasoned pro, this site is for you! The site has a simple new challenge for each day of December leading up to the […]
TwilioQuest Review Twilio has created an awesome game that is designed to teach students to program. I’m going to start by just saying – if you are interested in learning to code, then this app is fun and a great way to get started! Also if you have a friend who is learning to code […]
I was inspired by a free handout at my local public library, it was a “1000 books before kindergarten” workbook. The idea is that you track each book that you read with your children and try to read 1000 books before they begin kindergarten.To begin with, this seems like a lofty goal! 1000 books are […]
Getting started with server side swift and Vapor.
Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system “conda” instead of pip, and the packages include binaries in addition to python source libraries. It’s a great tool if you are […]
Overview Building content that will be utilized by a Learning Management System (LMS) requires a development environment that has a running LMS. Preferably if you are going to build content using an open source mechanism, you should have as many LMSs as you can, in order to ensure that your content can play on all of […]
Procedural Board Generation There are two main changes I made to convert this from a totally random board. First, the procedure decides ahead of time how many bombs and how many dangers are placed on the board. The second improvement is to make sure there are no islands, that is making sure every goal is […]