Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Tag: algorithms
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.u-glue: A positioning pattern (algorithm? API?)
.u-glue is a CSS utility class (or what I would call an algorithm) that provides an API for positioning an element absolutely over another element. We are using it at PMC, and it’s proven a useful model!
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CSS Algorithms: Changelog and Sources
Is CSS a programming language? What is a “CSS algorithm”? Read on to answer these questions, and to learn how CSS fits into the world of programming and computer science.
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Required Reading: Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
This should be required reading for anyone who works in tech…and anyone who uses tech! In particular, wouldn’t it be great if every new boot camp and college graduate was required to read this book?
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Day 6: Algorithms – Sorting Algorithms in JavaScript
Algorithms have got a bad, scary, rap. And you know what? It’s for good reason – understanding an algorithm is pretty doable, but implementing an algorithm in code of your own? It’s hard. I went through writing some common sorting algorithms in JavaScript with lots of help from the Internet. Take a read!
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Day 5: Algorithms – Logarithms, Big-O, & Binary Search
If I told my 16-year-old, art student self I’d be writing a blog post about logarithms, I wouldn’t have believed it. I’ve tried hard to avoid math for much of my life, yet here I am, not only learning about it but enjoying it! This post is an outline of what logarithms are and how…