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Sep 14, 2021

MergeSort

That’s right, another sorting blog! SO the past few sorting examples I discussed in my earlier blogs were fairly novice sorting methods. Do they do the job? Yes. However, they do not always scale well and sometimes only work when your information is already sorted to an extent. With that…

Merge Sort

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MergeSort
MergeSort
Merge Sort

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Sep 6, 2021

Insertion and Selection

Oh, did you think I was done with sorting? This blog is going to cover two more sorting styles: Insertion and Selection as well as compare all 3 in terms of Big O. To begin, let’s discuss Selection Sort. Selection Sort is similar to bubble sort, but instead of first…

Selection Sort

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Selection Sort

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Aug 31, 2021

Sorting!

No we are not at Hogwarts, but I am 100% a Ravenclaw. When it comes to software engineering and sorting, we are rearranging the items in a collection so that the items are in some kind of order. Anything can technically be sorted and there are a bunch of ways…

Bubble Sort

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Sorting!
Sorting!
Bubble Sort

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Aug 24, 2021

Recursion

Have you ever seen the movie Inception? If you don’t know Inception, you can click here for a quick plot summary. …

Flatiron

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Recursion
Recursion
Flatiron

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Aug 17, 2021

Divide and Conquer: A Big O Pattern

As stated in my last post, I have been discussing Big O and how we can refactor our code to make it the most efficient it can be. To take a look at that post, click here. Anyways, one common pattern we can use when trying to solve a Big…

Flatiron School

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Divide and Conquer: A Big O Pattern
Divide and Conquer: A Big O Pattern
Flatiron School

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Aug 9, 2021

Quick Big O Intro

Have you ever hear the phrase “There are a million different ways to skin a cat”, and wondered which one would be the best way? That is sort of like the concept of Big O when it comes to software engineering. Say you write two codes that can do the…

Flatiron School

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Quick Big O Intro
Quick Big O Intro
Flatiron School

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Aug 2, 2021

It’s all in the SASS

When we left off, we just downloaded our SASS extension and are finally able to write some code. I also discussed how SASS is very similar to JS and Python in the fact that you can use variables, create mixins (aka functions), and even separate your code into multiple files…

Sass

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It’s all in the SASS
It’s all in the SASS
Sass

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Jul 27, 2021

Get Ready to Feel SASS-Y

Syntactically awesome style sheets, aka Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is complied into CSS. I decided to take aim at Sass for the next few weeks and figured to take you all along for the ride. For this first section, I wanted to discuss what Sass is and…

Sass

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Get Ready to Feel SASS-Y
Get Ready to Feel SASS-Y
Sass

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Jul 19, 2021

Python Inheritance

I was once told to work smarter, and not harder in order to improve my performance. This is the core concept of what “Inheritance” is within Python. Inheritance allows you to: “Define attributes and objects within a class, and then create another class that can access those same attributes” To…

Python

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Python Inheritance
Python Inheritance
Python

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Jul 12, 2021

Creating Classes in Python

Since graduating from the Flatiron School, one of my main focuses aside from job searching was trying to learn new languages. That being said, my first new language attempt was Python. At first I thought Python would be hard, however there are actually a lot of similarities between Python and…

Flatiron School

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Creating Classes in Python
Creating Classes in Python
Flatiron School

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