Examples and Cats — Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that allows you to keep similar data together, and give the ability to modify that data while keeping the details hidden away in a so-called black box. This makes it possible to create code that is modular, easy to maintain, and abstract, which…

Or, why you should learn C# — Making games, and writing C# scripts in Unity is a lot like doing other types of coding, with a bunch of visual fun stuff plopped on top. It is definitely hard, but it’s hard fun. The Unity3D editor itself has lots of built-in tools for easy prototyping, like programmer-art style…

Web Development, Workers, and Looking Toward the Future — In the beginning, every program only existed in a single thread, only ever able to execute one instruction at a time. Most processor manufacturers made their processing power better by increasing the clock speed and adding more transistors. But there was one fatal flaw: the faster the clock speed, the…

How JavaScript Turns Complex Memory Management into Magic — In programming languages like C and C++, there are two types of memory allocation: static and dynamic. Static memory allocation is what happens when we create a global or local variable with a single fixed size. The program allocates once when the program is started and never frees it until…

The Impact of Technology on History and Archiving — Technology, and the speed at which it improves, undoubtedly impacts our view of recent history. The first iPhone was unveiled in 2007 (do you feel old yet?) and was an absolute marvel for its time. See my phrasing there: “for its time”! Now, more than ever, it’s so easy to…

Part 1: Should I Even Bother? — Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of challenges that come with development. Even with my admittedly short foray into development through my CS minor, analyzing data with Python for physics labs, and now my term at Flatiron, I am able to see just the tip of this iceberg. Even more unsurprisingly…