Despite what my résumé may say, there are a lot of things about Javascript that I don’t really know. I see the word ‘monad’ floating around a lot. Not really sure how this ‘garbage collector’ people talk about works (maybe if I brought it a gatorade?). JS has typed arrays? …

Eight months ago I completed a 15 week, Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp. It was challenging. It was edifying. It was fun! For my final project which I would be doing by myself I decided to create the world’s first Fantasy Sumo Wrestling app. Couldn’t be too hard, right? Wrong…

In the midst of my coding bootcamp, my instructors briefly taught us about linked lists. I knew that I needed to know linked lists because they could appear on an interview but I had no idea how it related at all. We had been learning Ruby and JavaScript; why not…

Today’s blog is about a famous algorithm called the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm after these guys up top. Legend has it that James Morris conceived of the algorithm and then “a few weeks later” Donald Knuth was creating the same thing in the field of automata theory. Morris and Vaughan Pratt created…

In today’s edition of Learning Java after Javascript I will be going through the Java implementation of selection sort. Given an unsorted array, selection sort goes through the array finding the lowest value and places it at the beginning of the array, and then the second lowest, etc. …

In today’s blog I will be briefly going through a “basic” sorting algorithm implementation in Java: bubble sort. Right off the bat I’d like to recommend VisuAlgo to see this algorithm in action. So without further ado… Bubble Sort Bubble sort iterates through a collection of comparable items (usually alphanumeric values) and…

Wow, what a big tree. Would be a shame if someone removed one of it’s…nodes… In today’s edition of Learning Java after Javascript I will be removing nodes from a binary search tree. This was one of the harder operations on binary search trees for me to understand so I…

Learning Java after Javascript is a series I am writing to document my progress in learning a new language. As my terrifyingly attentive and aggressively supportive followers know, I recently finished a software engineering bootcamp where I learned Ruby, Rails, Javascript and React. In order to continue learning while I…

I recently completed the immersive software engineering bootcamp through Flatiron School and am excitedly beginning the job search in my new field. Little did I know when I signed up for Flatiron at the beginning of this year that I would be doing all of it from my room. When…