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Beautiful Language and Beautiful Code

“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”!

Intro to the One-Time Pad Cipher

Jun 28, 2021 by Lane Wagner

In cryptography, the one-time pad, or OTP is a way of encrypting information so securely that it’s impossible to be cracked.

16 Great Coding Challenges You Can Try Out

Jun 24, 2021 by Zulie Rane

Coding 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.

Building a Red-Black Binary Tree in Python

Jun 21, 2021 by Lane Wagner

A 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.

Quick Sort in Golang

Jun 17, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm commonly used in production sorting implementations. Like Merge Sort, Quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm.

How to Write Insertion Sort in Go

Jun 14, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Insertion 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.

Merge Sort in Golang with Examples

Jun 10, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Merge sort is a recursive sorting algorithm and, luckily for us, it’s quite a bit faster than bubble sort.

Writing Bubble Sort in Go from Scratch

Jun 08, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Bubble sort is named for the way elements “bubble up” to the top of the list.

Check for Standards Before Creating a New One

Jun 07, 2021 by Lane Wagner

I recently had a ticket opened on my team’s backlog board requesting the ability to bypass our API’s caching system.

How to Properly Use Defer in Golang

Jun 01, 2021 by Lane Wagner

What 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.

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.

Comprehensive Guide to Dates and Times in Go

May 17, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Keeping 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.

The 10x Meeting - Solving for Too Many Meetings

May 10, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Perhaps 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.

Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang

May 04, 2021 by Lane Wagner

The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string.

Golang vs Python: Which Language is Best For You?

Apr 29, 2021 by Zulie Rane

These 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.

The Ultimate Guide to JSON in Go

Apr 28, 2021 by Lane Wagner

As a language designed for the web, Go provides extensive support for working with JSON data.

Migrating From Vue-CLI & Webpack to Vitejs

Apr 26, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Boot.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™©®.

How Replace a String in Go - Top 5 Examples

Apr 20, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Go has a powerful standard library that makes string manipulation easy right out of the box.

How and Why to Write Enums in Go

Apr 19, 2021 by Lane Wagner

An 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.

Splitting a String into a Slice in Golang

Apr 15, 2021 by Lane Wagner

I 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.

Backend Developers are UX Designers Too

Apr 12, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Too 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.

For Loops in Go

Apr 10, 2021 by Lane Wagner

For loops are a programmer’s best friend! They allow us execute blocks of code repeatedly and iterate over collections of items.

Advanced Algorithms Course Released on Boot.dev

Apr 05, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Sorry it took so long for me to get this one out! Learn Advanced Algorithms was just released, and I’m excited to let you all get your hands on it, even if you’re just auditing it for free!

Naming Variables the Right Way

Apr 01, 2021 by Lane Wagner

I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect.

Which is Worth It, Coding Bootcamp or a Computer Science Degree?

Mar 29, 2021 by Zulie Rane

When you’re in a position of wondering, “Is a coding bootcamp worth it?” you should look at several factors.