Anders B

A promise to resolve or reject a pending Promise

Todays topic is Promises. I’ve been working with python as my first programming language and only the synchronous part. Thus, promises and asynchronous programming takes some effort to get my head around. Basically, a Promise object is used to request some resource and continue running lines of code, while the request is returning a response.Continue reading “A promise to resolve or reject a pending Promise”

Accessing arrays and if statements in JavaScript – And solving the wrong problem

While trying to solve one of Codecademys challenge projects, I’ve run into a challenge with if statements and checking whether a value is true or false in an array. What I expected to be a pretty simple line of code, seems to break the way JavaScript works. The problem is was as follows: if (someArray[x][y]Continue reading “Accessing arrays and if statements in JavaScript – And solving the wrong problem”

devofa.dev through Codecademy

My learning path has gone through several steps over the last couple of yours. I started out in a study group, 2 hours every Thursday evening, learning python with others without any experience. That turned into a lot of YouTube tutorials, beginning to read documentation and programming blogs. Parallel to this I began studying computerContinue reading “devofa.dev through Codecademy”

How do i build a good habit of posting?

I’ve had this blog for quite some time now. Thinking about doing a post from time to time, but mostly forgetting about it and never getting into writing any posts at all. My new years resolution was to publish more. Trying to make it measurable i went for 12 posts in a year. Today isContinue reading “How do i build a good habit of posting?”

Developing for use, not functionality

A well known method for developing software is to aim for the need of the user, not the functionality that could be “nice to have”. A small part of my day job is participation in a development team making software for the construction industry. We often discuss what will be best for the user insteadContinue reading “Developing for use, not functionality”

Why tell about this?

I think there a plenty like me. People who do one thing, but like coding, and hope to make it a bigger part of their life. On a personal level or professionally.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”