rouxcaesar

Advice for Capstone students

Here is a list of pieces of advice that I've given students entering the Capstone program of Launch School. The focus of this list is for the learning and project portions of the program, nothing job related (could be added later). It's based on my own experience going through Capstone and having observed other students go through the program. Not every piece of advice may apply to you, but I hope that at least some of it will be helpful.

Congrats on completing the Core Curriculum and getting accepted into Capstone and best of luck on your next journey!

• Be prepared for a big shift in how you learn. While Core was mastery-based learning, Capstone and your future jobs will be just-in-time (JIT) learning. You will feel like you're drinking from a firehose of information and feel the urge to study some topics repeatedly, but I urge you to "timebox" your learning (dedicate some time to a topic and then move on). You will have the chance to circle back to any topics in Capstone d

rouxcaesar

My Thoughts on Bradfield

I've been asked by several people over time about my experience with the classes offered by Bradfield, and thought that I should save some future keystrokes by writing up a short gist for future reference. Hopefully this gist will be useful for others who are considering Bradfield and wondering it is worth it. My intended audience is primarily Launch School students who have completed the Core program and likely also Capstone, but the majority of this gist will be applicable to anyone who is a working/experienced software engineer.

Since late 2019, I've taken 4 short courses from the Bradfield School of Computer Science and in 2021 I enrolled in their Computer Science Intensive (CSI) program¹. Overall, I've found the courses and CSI to be an excellent opportunity to grown my technical skills and broaden my knowledge of CS topics.

The courses I completed were:

• Computer Architecture: The Hardware/Software Interface

benawad

-- code for https://youtu.be/tp_5c6jaNQE

create table users (
    id serial primary key,
    first_name varchar(255) not null,
    last_name text,
    age int,
    email text unique not null
);

bradtraversy

MySQL Cheat Sheet

Help with SQL commands to interact with a MySQL database

MySQL Locations

• Mac /usr/local/mysql/bin
• Windows /Program Files/MySQL/MySQL version/bin
• Xampp /xampp/mysql/bin

Add mysql to your PATH

wojteklu

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

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General rules

1. Follow standard conventions.
2. Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
3. Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
4. Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

jsdf

fetch api cheat sheet

get JSON

fetch('/things/10', {
  credentials: 'same-origin',
  headers: {
    'accept': 'application/json'
  }

thegitfather

Vanilla JavaScript Quick Reference / Cheatsheet

Just migrated it from Codepen.io to markdown. Credit goes to David Conner.

Working with DOM	Working with JS	Working With Functions
Accessing Dom Elements	Add/Remove Array Item	Add Default Arguments to Function
Grab Children/Parent Node(s)	Add/Remove Object Properties	Throttle/Debounce Functions
Create DOM Elements	Conditionals

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

kirkelifson

Do you have spaces in your Windows username?

1. Create a new account on Windows without a space.

#Installation

1. Download cygwin from http://cygwin.com
2. Run setup-(x86|x86_64).exe
3. Click next until selecting repo to download packages
4. Choose http://cs.vt.edu (gotta go fast), click next

sidorares

Node.JS best practices and conventions

This is not about JS style

Advice: if you have style guide / policy, apply it automatically ( in the editor or git hook ) https://github.com/jshint/fixmyjs

Collection of (mostly) JS styles (pick one you like or write another one if none fits you)

• list of lists: http://www.jstherightway.org/