Pair Programming: My Experience With This Techinque

Pair Programming - a type of programming techinque where two people work together as “pairs” on a single computer to solve a complex problem.

Ruby "Percentage Constructors": Constructors To Make Your Life Easy

“The Well-Grounded Rubyist” is a very dense and wordy book that covers a lot of Ruby material. One interesting topic that the book covered though is a series of “percentage” constructors designed to make it easier to create arrays and strings. (Disclaimer: David A. Black, the author of “The Well-Grounded Rubyist” did not use such a term in the book. It was a term I made up to classify the constructors that he listed. David A. Black prefers using the more general term “%char”.)

Bootcamp Regulations: Should We Support Innovation or Prevent Fraud?

DevBootCamp is just one of many boot camps that is seeking to help people transition from their former careers into computer programmers. Each bootcamp is its own de-facto schooling system. Should they, however, be regulated just like schools?

.Cycle In Ruby: What is it? And how do you use it?

Enumerable#cycle - “Calls block for each element of enum repeatedly n times or forever if none or nil is given.” (Rubydocs) If this definition sounds confusing, don’t worry, this essay will explain it.

Arrays versus Hashes: The Difference

An array is a list of items, like a shopping list. An example array would be: