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AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Review
Feb 18, 2020
Amazon Web Service certificates are industry-recognized credentials to help you grow you career. Whether you’re a System Admin, Software Developer, DevOps Engineer, or a IT Professional, AWS certificates are worth every penny. In this post, I’ll review the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification and share the steps I took to pass...
Continue readingBook Review - The Phoenix Project
Jan 27, 2020
Worth your time? All in all, at ~$30.00 USD, the Phoenix Project is worth your time if you’re a DevOps professional or work in IT in general. Summary The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford is a fictional DevOps book about helping your business win. The...
Continue readingStep by Step guide to get a dev job
Nov 14, 2019
Hi! I’m Alex Cannon. I create blog content to help developers like you improve their code, learn new topics, and more. I recently accepted a job offer as a Junior Software Engineer so I figured I could help someone else land a job too. I didn’t get my first job...
Continue readingPaint Bucket Algorithm Showcase
Nov 03, 2019
Hello! Lately I’ve been focusing on increasing my knowledge of algorithms and code testing. In this post, I’ll showcase a code snippet where I implement a paint bucket algorithm. I slowed down the algorithm so that it is clear how the algorithm works. I’m using JavaScript and React to implement...
Continue readingF.C.C. - Create Set Class
Oct 06, 2019
Below is a quick solution to the Create Set Class challenge provided by Free Code Camp. It’s a very simple challenge and I aim to learn more about sets in the future. In the next few exercises, we will build a full featured Set from scratch. this.add function should return...
Continue readingJS Algorithm - Insertion Sort
Oct 06, 2019
Below is a quick JS Algorithm problem provided by Free Code Camp called “Impement Insertion Sort” and solved by me: The next sorting method we’ll look at is insertion sort. This method works by building up a sorted array at the beginning of the list. It begins the sorted array...
Continue readingJS Algorithm - Get Numbers between
Sep 20, 2019
Hello! Welcome to another quick tutorial on another JavaScript algorithm. I hope this blog post will help you understand algorithms better and help you in those tough technical interviews. Today, I’m going to go over how to solve a basic algorithm. We will create a function called getNumsBetween(arr). Below are...
Continue readingJS Algorithm - Get Change Algorithm
Sep 19, 2019
Hi! Welcome to another algorithm tutorial. Recently, I had a technical interview where I was tasked with creating a “get change” algorithm. This is a real algorithm I was asked to solve in a technical interview! Below are a few test cases: getChange(56) returns [25, 25, 5, 1]. getChange(9) returns...
Continue readingJS Algorithm - Reverse an array
Sep 17, 2019
Hello! How’s it going? It’s common for interviewers to ask programmers how to reverse an array. You would be surprised with the number of programmers unable to do this! If you’re not familiar with the algorithm or would like some more insight, here you go! If you’d like to get...
Continue readingHow React and Redux work together
Sep 11, 2019
Hi! Welcome to another blog post. Today I’m going to give a brief overview of how React and Redux work together. Recently, I had the opportunity to begin learning Redux, so I thought “why not share some of my knowledge?” What is React? In one sentence, react is state management...
Continue readingMy Story So Far
Aug 24, 2019
I learned some of what I know from a book written by John Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide: The book is a guide that can take you from knowing nothing about development to getting a job as a developer. Support the channel by following this link to buy...
Continue readingMy Easy Local Environment For Web Development
Aug 24, 2019
I learned some of what I know from a book written by John Sonmez, The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide: The book is a guide that can take you from knowing nothing about development to getting a job as a developer. Support the channel by following this link to buy...
Continue readingProject: Volunteer Core
May 27, 2019
View Live View Github Hi! Welcome to another project showcase. Today I’m going to talk about a project I worked on for Volunteers of America, called Volunteer Core. > Background Volunteers of America’s Fort Collins office approached Code For FoCo (A non-profit that builds software for people) with a big...
Continue readingTutorial: Deploying Create React App Basics
May 25, 2019
Hi! Welcome to another tutorial. Today I’d like to discuss how to deploy create react app to a live server. I think there can be some confusion when you deploy because of misunderstanding how servers/react works. Traditionally, websites work like so: Client sends HTTP request to your server to GET...
Continue readingTutorial: Deploy Create React App to Heroku
May 17, 2019
Struggling with deploying Create React App to Heroku? In the video below, I explain how to get this done. If you’d like a more in-depth tutorial for this, let me know so I can create one.
Continue readingProject: FreeCodeCamp Portfolio
May 10, 2019
View Live View Github Hi! Welcome to another post. Today I’ll talk a little about FreeCodeCamp. FreeCodeCamp is a non-profit online e-learning platform for software engineers. You can learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, D3, NodeJS, and more as of writing this. The curriculum is on-going. I built this project to...
Continue readingProject: Codebin
May 10, 2019
View Live View Github Hi! I’m Alex & I build software. Welcome to another project showcase. Today I’ll tell you about a Codepen clone I developed. If you don’t know what Codepen is, it’s basically an online webpage editor. > Stack I used MERN (MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, NodeJS) for this...
Continue readingProject: Secret Santa
May 09, 2019
View Live View Github Howdy. I’m back again with another project showcase. Today I’d like to tell you about a Secret Santa Website I built. As my second Chingu Voyage team project, we chose to create a Secret Santa website. This would be the same a gift exchange IRL, except...
Continue readingProject: Bearbnb
May 09, 2019
View Live View Github Hi! I’m Alex Cannon, Software Engineer and author of this blog. Let me tell you about a project I built called Bearbnb. > Background Bearbnb was my team’s project for Chingu Voyage 3 (chingu website). It is a clone of Airbnb. I worked on a lot...
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