FizzBuzz
FizzBuzz is a software test that is sometimes used to torture developers during job interviews. The goal of a FizzBuzz test is to gauge a job candidate’s basic programming skills. The instructions are:...
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Open source software (sometimes called Free and Open Source Software or FOSS) is the practice of sharing how a computer program was made and allowing anyone to customize the program as they see fit....
View ArticleAll hail JavaScript
To all our American readers: Happy Labor Day! We hope you are enjoying a nice day off! For the rest of our readers, spending the day at the office, we put together this special package: If you are in...
View ArticleFacebook's Open Graph
Open Graph is Facebook’s extremely extensive application programming interface (API). Open Graph makes it easy to integrate your website with Facebook and make sure your stuff is shared by all, or at...
View ArticleTwitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is a collection of CSS, JavaScript, and image files that help you to quickly build great looking web applications. You might remember from our HTML Week that a boilerplate is a...
View ArticleAJAX
AJAX is a set of technologies that makes the web highly interactive and responsive. It stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. The web used to be synchronous – this means that one thing happened...
View ArticleDjango
Django is a framework that makes it easy to build big, robust web applications in the programming language Python. Programming language frameworks are super popular on the web. You might remember our...
View ArticlePHP
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for the web. When you ask a web server for a page, it’s PHP’s job to create it. When you browse a WordPress blog or make a post on Facebook, PHP is...
View ArticleWhy programmers start counting at zero
If you have started to learn any of the mainstream web programming languages (JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, or Python) you have no doubt been introduced to something called an array. An array is a collection...
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