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Programming Resources

Spencer Fry

I started learning to program in earnest at the beginning of February 2012. Since then, I've compiled the programming resources that got me to where I am today. Learn Ruby the Hard Way is what I started with when I began programming. I mainly used Team Treehouse for their extensive HTML and CSS lesson videos.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

We wrote programs that existed solely on a centralized computer (a mainframe), all of our data was stored centrally and all processing was centralized. In busy times compiling a program could take more than an hour, so we obviously didn’t submit often and if our program had errors and was unable to compile it was devastating.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

If you have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and JS and want to create a WordPress theme, you can do it with Bootstrap and then share it on GetBootstrap, even if you don't know much about WordPress. Thanks to Jared Floyd, Ajax Creative ! #22- Thanks to Justin Siken, HigherGov ! #15- Thanks to Kelley Van Boxmeer, Motion Invest ! #30-

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What Was Day 1 Like?

Feld Thoughts

To start off the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them the simple question “What Was Day 1 Like?” Worse, we would have to learn the basics of speech in becoming functional at the command line, databases, and editing programs. Tags: Programming everlater.

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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

www.smashingmagazine.com

Using AJAX to Get City and State from ZIP Code Auto-Complete the Country Field The conventional way for users to specify their country is to select it from a drop-down list. By the way: I had to copy/paste this comment because your textarea is virtually unusable: its HTML column value is set at 0, which is just plain dumb.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Ideally, your technical skills would be the following: Programming experience in JavaScript or jQuery, HTML/CSS and AJAX. Who You Are: Above all, you need to be innovative and lack a comprehension for the word “impossible” You need to have an obsessive attention to detail and user experience.

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How to develop live search textbox in Ruby on Rails | Aymeric.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

get(url, formData, function(html) { // perform an AJAX get $("#big-search-box").removeClass("loading"); html(html); // replace the "results" div with the results });}); I am planning to improve this code to not do a search on every keystroke, but maybe allow a 1 second delay before the next search.

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