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React Workshop

2022-03-29Nathaniel Fulmer

React is a free and open source Javascript library for building user interfaces based on UI components.

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Firebase Workshop

2022-03-28Daniel Manila

Firebase is a backend replacement produced by Google which helps developers write fully featured web apps without having to handle things like databases and authentication directly. This workshop deals with the basics of using firebase

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Web design UI workshop

2022-02-09Lia Abed

web design can be very overwhelming and confusing if not approached in the right manners, and this blog is about guiding you throughout your journey to build a very beautiful seamless web design using basic html and css code!

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Debugging Tips

2021-02-17Daniel Manila

Debugging is a fairly essential part of programming, and this post aims to give you a few general tools and strategies to help you debug effectively.

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How to Use Grid Layout

2020-09-04Lasya Pullakhandam

The CSS grid is a two-dimensional layout system that allows us to stack and line up content in columns and rows. One-dimensional Flexbox elements can be used for smaller components in the grid layout. And since it is built into CSS, the native properties allow for better performance.

This post will go through the basics of CSS grid, how to set up a simple grid layout, and how we used it to clean up our own website.

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Integrating Clem with Cursive

2020-01-17Daniel Manila

Clem is a program intended to make development with Clojure easier by helping explain Clojure’s sometimes cryptic error messages. It integrates with your REPL an uses an online database to attempt to find more human-friendly messages to explain your errors.

This post will go through the steps required to integrate Clem with Cursive.

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Installing Cursive IDE for Clojure

2019-09-27Daniel Manila

Cursive is an IDE built on top of IntelliJ that supports syntax highlighting, code completion, repl integration and other features for Clojure and ClojureScript. Unlike many other Clojure IDEs, it is comparatively simple to install and has ordinary GUI.

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A Clojure Tutorial

2019-09-26Daniel Manila

Did you know that there is a programming language that’s not only consistently enjoyable to use, but also amazingly productive—and which was the highest paying language according to the 2018 Stack Overflow developer survey? In this talk, Professor of the Practice and App Lab director Jeff Terrell introduces the programming language Clojure.

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A design tutorial using Figma

2019-09-10Jeff Terrell

A few days ago, with the help of my TA, Srihari Pratapa, I gave a tutorial on using Figma for UI design to my COMP 523 class.

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Creating a GitHub Pull Request (video)

2019-03-21Jeff Terrell

I just uploaded a video showing how to create a fork and a pull request in GitHub. This is a little more complicated than pull requests within the same repository because a repository owned by somebody else typically doesn’t allow you to push commits directly to it. Check out the 9-minute video, or read on for details.

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A backend tutorial

2019-02-15Jeff Terrell

A few days ago, I gave a talk to participants of the 2019 UNC Makeathon about how to create a backend web service.

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A few resources for learning git

2019-02-04Jeff Terrell

This morning I gave a lecture about git to my COMP 523 (software engineering laboratory) class. (Update 2019-10-03: I just published a video tutorial of the same content.) Some know it well; others barely know what it is. Here are a few resources I’ve collected on learning git, with some notes about how appropriate they are to beginners vs. more experienced people.

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A Redux.js tutorial

2019-02-01Jeff Terrell

A couple of days ago, I gave a lecture to COMP 523 (software engineering laboratory) about Redux.js. I developed a simple example based on the (perhaps familiar) tic-tac-toe idea. Then I built an app based on Redux one step at a time to demonstrate its key concepts.

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Building a Tic-Tac-Toe mobile app with React Native

2018-10-02Jeff Terrell

HackNC happened the weekend of October 6–7th, 2018. Leading up to the main event, there were a few talks, including one I gave on React Native. It was intended for programmers who didn’t have any prior experience with React.js (on the web) or React Native (for mobile apps).

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