Jennifer Mann's Blog

[...] % of my workday working in my text editor. Knowing how to become faster and more proficient in Sublime Text has saved me a great deal of time and headache every day. In this guide I've outlined the [...]

[...] recipes for the community by the community. Tools / Guides CoffeeCompile - This little Sublime Text plugin is a great way to check what Coffeescript is compiling into on the fly. I already wrote [...]

[...] effort to broaden my understanding of writing programs and languages, I signed up for Harvard's CS50 course - Introduction to Computer Science. Harvard offers the CS50 course for free online through [...]

[...] number of spaces in the ASCII in C. Note: This exercise is part of Problem Set 2 in the CS50 course offered on edX.org. First, the program should accept the number of spaces for the cipher as a [...]

[...] case and only encrypting alphabetical characters). This exercise matches up with Harvard's CS50 course, problem set 2: Parlez-vous français? The program should accept a keyword as a command-line [...]

This week, one of the assignments from Harvard's CS50 class was a little exercise called Greedy. A greedy algorithm as defined by the National Institu [...]

Introduction to Computer Science Course Being a self-taught developer, I've never really taken a basic "computer science" course. I've mostly learned [...]

A Ceasar cipher encrypts a message by rotating each letter by k spaces. Since there is only one series of steps to take to encrypt and decrypt the mes [...]

The Caesar cipher we wrote previously is not a very secure way to store a message. It can be cracked by using frequency analysis of the given language [...]

[...] property delete_Files at ON if you want to automatically delete saved images from your Website Inspiration folder after they've been added to Evernote. Place the Evernote Folder Ation.scpt into / [...]

[...] reviews. Also, be on the lookout for future blog posts where I will detail resources for learning Coffeescript, Backbone.js, and Marionette.js. [...]

Coffeescript is a little language that compiles into Javascript. While there is a lot of debate online about the pros and cons of using Coffeescript, [...]

[...] what front-end developer doesn’t know Javascript? I was a bit unsure of how difficult learning Javascript would be. What I had been told of Javascript was that it was not the most well-written [...]

[...] of just translating Coffeescript into Javascript. This is the best book for anyone newer to learning Javascript. It served as a review of the concepts in Javascript, but skipped the weirdness that is [...]

[...] Tricks - Quick blog post covering some tricks that aren't covered in the docs. JavaScript closures, CoffeeScript do, and dont's - This blog post explains handling closures in [...]

[...] of the book was more review of all the other resources. Mozilla Developer Network: Javascript https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript (Free) This covers everything and [...]

[...] ; is a function call, => carries over the context of this into the function, etc). Coffeescript Docs http://coffeescript.org/ (Free) The coffeescript docs were pretty clear and concise on [...]

[...] added to your Website Inspiration folder will automatically import into Evernote. Evernote Auto-Import Settings In Evernote, go into "Preferences". Under the "General" tab you [...]