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Understanding the HTML DOM

October 7, 2023
The HTML DOM is the lense through which our code to create a Web page is viewed by the Web browser. Understanding the HTML DOM is critical for using JavaScript to make dynamic Web pages. Potential employers often ask Front-End applicants to explain how well they understan... Read More

What Does 'Software Framework' Mean?

June 13, 2023
In beginning to study Web Development the term framework is very common, but what does it actually mean? A quick Google search on the word framework returns: Read More

What the Hell is a Slug?

March 24, 2023
I hadn’t used GitHub in a while the other day and needed to download a repository for a Python tool that I wanted to use. While reading the documentation I came across a reference to the author’s “slug.” It sounded sort of derisive at first glance and my curiosity was piq... Read More

Demystifying Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages

December 29, 2022
The ‘gitverse’ is like a great library, and like a great library it holds the books we want to read as well as the process for organizing them, and the shelves to keep them stored on. Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages make up just three parts of the gitverse, and the gitverse... Read More

Python: Understanding Objects and Types

July 22, 2022
Python is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. An object in computer programming refers to a package of information–or data, that is active in the computer’s memory (has a location and address, just like an apartment in a city) and that some program is aware of.... Read More

Python: Understanding Data Structures, Containers and Collections

May 20, 2022
When I first began programming in Python I found the way different authors and online sources referred to the processes used for holding and manipulating groups of data somewhat confusing. Three concepts were involved, data structures, containers and collections–and I was... Read More

Using a Custom Domain On GitHub Pages

October 24, 2021
GitHub Pages is a service by GitHub that provides free Web hosting to anyone for a static Website (no PHP, mySQL, etc.). Every GitHub account is allowed one free site. This makes it very economical for individuals wanting to dabble in Web development without paying for ho... Read More