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What are UUIDs, and are they better than regular IDs?
Jul 23, 2021 by Lane WagnerIn the context of back-end web development, an ID is just a unique identifier for a record of data.
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What is Go Good For? (And What Is Golang Used For?)
Jul 16, 2021 by Jamie DunmoreIn 2007, frustrated by some of C++’s inefficiencies and overcomplicated nature, and desiring a programming language designed specifically for multi-core processors and effectively managing large projects, three Google engineers, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, designed the Go language.
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project
Jul 12, 2021 by Meghan ReichenbachNeeding to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past.
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Beautiful Language and Beautiful Code
Jun 30, 2021 by“Dead Poet’s Society” is a classic film, and has become a recent favorite of mine. There’s a scene in particular that I enjoy, where Robin William’s character explains that it’s bad practice to use terms like “very tired” or “very sad”, instead we should use descriptive words like “exhausted” or “morose”!
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Intro to the One-Time Pad Cipher
Jun 28, 2021 by Lane WagnerIn cryptography, the one-time pad, or OTP is a way of encrypting information so securely that it’s impossible to be cracked.
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16 Great Coding Challenges You Can Try Out
Jun 24, 2021 by Zulie RaneCoding challenges are a fun way to improve your coding quickly. When I started to learn coding in school, coding challenges were the furthest thing from my mind.
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Building a Red-Black Binary Tree in Python
Jun 21, 2021 by Lane WagnerA red-black tree is a kind of self-balancing binary search tree. Each node stores an extra bit, which we will call the color, red or black.
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Quick Sort in Golang
Jun 17, 2021 by Lane WagnerQuicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm commonly used in production sorting implementations. Like Merge Sort, Quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm.
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How to Write Insertion Sort in Go
Jun 14, 2021 by Lane WagnerInsertion sort builds a final sorted list one item at a time. It’s much less efficient on large lists than more advanced algorithms like quicksort or merge sort.
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Merge Sort in Golang with Examples
Jun 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerMerge sort is a recursive sorting algorithm and, luckily for us, it’s quite a bit faster than bubble sort.
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Writing Bubble Sort in Go from Scratch
Jun 08, 2021 by Lane WagnerBubble sort is named for the way elements “bubble up” to the top of the list.
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Check for Standards Before Creating a New One
Jun 07, 2021 by Lane WagnerI recently had a ticket opened on my team’s backlog board requesting the ability to bypass our API’s caching system.
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How to Properly Use Defer in Golang
Jun 01, 2021 by Lane WagnerWhat is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows developers to delay the execution of a function until the current function returns.
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7 Critical Reasons Beginner Programmers Should Learn JavaScript in 2022
May 25, 2021 by Zulie Rane“Why learn JavaScript?” I asked my sister when she was in college and starting to pick up the fundamentals of JavaScript.
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Comprehensive Guide to Dates and Times in Go
May 17, 2021 by Lane WagnerKeeping track of time in code has long been every developer’s nightmare. While no language or package manages time perfectly, I think Golang does a pretty good job out-of-the-box.
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The 10x Meeting - Solving for Too Many Meetings
May 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerPerhaps you’ve heard of the fabled 10x developer (or 10x engineer) - the one on the team that’s 10x as productive as their average colleague.
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang
May 04, 2021 by Lane WagnerThe Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string.
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Golang vs Python: Which Language is Best For You?
Apr 29, 2021 by Zulie RaneThese two coding languages duke it out - but who’s the winner? 🔗 In a world where the ability to write any code at all is a tremendous advantage, often the biggest problem coders face is knowing which language to start learning, rather than whether to learn one at all.
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The Ultimate Guide to JSON in Go
Apr 28, 2021 by Lane WagnerAs a language designed for the web, Go provides extensive support for working with JSON data.
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Migrating From Vue-CLI & Webpack to Vitejs
Apr 26, 2021 by Lane WagnerBoot.dev’s web app that hosts all of my coding courses is a single-page application written in Vue 2, with plans to migrate to Vue 3 soon™©®.
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How Replace a String in Go - Top 5 Examples
Apr 20, 2021 by Lane WagnerGo has a powerful standard library that makes string manipulation easy right out of the box.
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How and Why to Write Enums in Go
Apr 19, 2021 by Lane WagnerAn enum (short for enumerator), is a set of named constant values. An enum is a powerful tool that allows developers to create complex sets of constants that have useful names and yet simple and unique values.
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Splitting a String into a Slice in Golang
Apr 15, 2021 by Lane WagnerI can’t begin to tell you how often I split strings in Go. More often than not I’m just parsing a comma-separated list from an environment variable, and Go’s standard library gives us some great tools for that kind of manipulation.
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Backend Developers are UX Designers Too
Apr 12, 2021 by Lane WagnerToo often I neglect the idea of UX design in backend work. The goal of user experience design is to give users a product that’s easy to use.
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For Loops in Go
Apr 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerFor loops are a programmer’s best friend! They allow us execute blocks of code repeatedly and iterate over collections of items.