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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…