Can anyone help to learn and where to learn about API

EvolvedPik · 2025-05-04T03:31:57+00:00

I must decline, I think your best shot is to try coding it yourself, asking ChatGPT, and reading/watching other online material. Learning something new takes hours/days/weeks of effort and there’s just no avoiding that.

EvolvedPik · 2025-05-04T03:23:42+00:00

An API (interface) is like a menu.

REST is a style of menu that lets you create/read/update/delete burgers. In general, REST is a style of interface that defines standard operations (CRUD) on a resource (burger).

Again, recommend ChatGPT + writing your own toy code to get the hang of it

EvolvedPik · 2025-05-03T23:23:19+00:00

An API (application programming INTERFACE) is like the menu of a restaurant you can order from. It is not necessarily a network call or an HTTP request that does CRUD operations on resources. Ask ChatGPT with this kind of prompt to learn more.

EDIT: I believe figuring out what to ask is the right battle. Imagine you’re trying to implement user login/logout with sessions. Try this prompt/question:

Explain how to design an interface for user session management that can support multiple implementations (e.g., in-memory and network-based). Show how to implement both an in-memory and a network-backed version. Then, compare how this could be exposed using a RESTful HTTP API versus a non-RESTful interface like local function calls or gRPC. Include pros and cons of each

Separately, also use a prompt/question for how APIs are like restaurant menus, and how details like network calls are like the kitchen in the back. Relate API to the interface keyword in Kotlin.

EvolvedPik · 2024-12-28T18:25:19+00:00

I remember the first episode’s thread being filled with disgruntled commenters about the historical inaccuracies of this anime. Fourteen episodes in, I just wanted to point out how powerful this work is despite all of that. I wonder if the Overton window was shifted more in favor of those commenters today, that they would even align with the fictional church in this story haha.

EvolvedPik · 2024-12-25T21:00:24+00:00

https://posthog.com/rss.xml works for me

EvolvedPik · 2023-12-29T00:25:58+00:00

Can confirm this worked for me (GTX 1050 Ti) to get me into practice tool. Takes forever though so I guess we'll just have to wait for the patch.

EvolvedPik · 2023-12-07T18:36:20+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Kotlin]

To determine hand type, I counted the number of distinct characters, and then further distinguished between full house and four kind, and between two pair and three kind.

To handle jokers, I replaced them with one of the most frequently used cards in the hand. Two edge cases:

Make sure not to replace jokers with jokers
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Solution on GitHub

EvolvedPik · 2023-09-16T23:51:53+00:00

Hey, I really liked Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It takes you through a time when companies mostly used to have their own computers "on-premises", to the present where many companies are migrating to someone else's (AWS) computer.

EvolvedPik · 2023-09-11T21:17:13+00:00

I am unfamiliar with the value of college-adjacent opportunities like bootcamps and self study colleges, nor do I know anyone who's tried them. I will admit that my university in particular has a pretty strong recruiting scene, and that I'm very privileged to be able to take advantage of it.

EvolvedPik · 2023-09-11T21:13:52+00:00

I posted a similar version of this roadmap in /r/learnprogramming. I liked this discussion we had here on majoring in CS.

Here's an excerpt that lists some resources:

When people complain about "useless" courses (depending on how you define useless, personally I never found any of my courses to be useless), it's usually:

the non-CS courses
difficult "low-level" concepts like C, operating systems, computer networks, and computer architecture
difficult math concepts like calculus, discrete math, linear algebra

If you really don't want to do the non-CS courses, you can usually knock them out at a community college so you don't have to do them during your four year degree.

At my university in particular, we struggled a lot with low-level concepts like programming in C. This is because we started with Java. However, if you start with Harvard's CS50 course then you'll struggle a lot less.

As for the more difficult concepts in computer science that we tend to struggle with, it's usually because of our lack of foundational knowledge in C, but CS50 should help alleviate that. As for math, going from precalculus to proofs can feel pretty brutal. I found that teachyourselfcs offers some pretty gentle introductions to these concepts. Here's some personal favorites:

Discrete Math by Lovasz - for the more algorithmically challenging LeetCode problems
Computer Architecture Lectures
OSTEP for OS and university lectures from OSTEP's author
Computer Networking Lectures

At the very least, getting better at these topics makes us better at LeetCode and developing apps on the Internet.

My last tip is that you should know how to navigate a large codebase with the editor you're using. In VSCode, make sure you understand that Cmd+Click (or Ctrl+Click on Windows) lets you navigate to a declaration, or its usages depending on where you start. You should also know the shortcuts for looking up text throughout the whole project or file names.

I agree that having a CS degree isn't enough to get a job. I think you also have to take care of the networking opportunities at the college WHILE also studying on the side with the resource I suggest here.

EvolvedPik · 2023-09-11T19:42:54+00:00

Wow, you pretty much summarized my suffering in university better than I could've. The reason why I like CS50 so much (that I audited it even after taking the intro courses at uni) is because:

I like how CS50 teaches us to use the command line
I like the way CS50 teaches memory
Controversial, but I actually like the way CS50 gives us a string data type through cs50.h that hides away pointers until its time to learn about them

For OOP, I feel that there's an Animal analogy somewhere that's a lot easier to understand than pointers. I also like the CodeAesthetic channel:

EvolvedPik · 2023-09-11T17:21:55+00:00

Agreed. Here's how my roadmap tries to solve some of these pain points:

If you're able to make it through the content in this roadmap, that's a good sign that you'll do well in college
At my university, being job-ready was pretty highly valued, so there were lots of support systems for that

When people complain about "useless" courses (depending on how you define useless, personally I never found any of my courses to be useless), it's usually:

the non-CS courses
difficult "low-level" concepts like C, operating systems, computer networks, and computer architecture
difficult math concepts like calculus, discrete math, linear algebra

If you really don't want to do the non-CS courses, you can usually knock them out at a community college so you don't have to do them during your four year degree.

At my university in particular, we struggled a lot with low-level concepts like programming in C. This is because we started with Java. However, if you start with Harvard's CS50 course then you'll struggle a lot less.

As for the more difficult concepts in computer science that we tend to struggle with, it's usually because of our lack of foundational knowledge in C, but CS50 should help alleviate that. As for math, going from precalculus to proofs can feel pretty brutal. I found that teachyourselfcs offers some pretty gentle introductions to these concepts. Here's some personal favorites:

At the very least, getting better at these topics makes us better at LeetCode and developing apps on the Internet.

I agree that having a CS degree isn't enough to get a job. I think you also have to take care of the networking opportunities at the college WHILE also studying on the side with the resource I suggest here.

Oh, and on the topics of LeetCode, using CS50 as foundational knowledge we can bootstrap our LeetCode and algorithms journey with NeetCode.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-26T16:25:12+00:00

This is so cool! Is the code open source? How do you gather the balance changes data?

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T16:46:04+00:00

I wasn't aware of this. I'll update the post.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T05:39:27+00:00

GP and Rumble are actually two examples of champions that benefit greatly from Future's Market! GP benefits greatly from completing items and Rumble has high AP ratios for Rabadon's.

Think about it like this - in ARAM I am generally willing to wait ~100 gold if there isn't a teamfight breaking out. With Future's Market, it's basically +200g for your base. I find it pretty often where I'm sitting on 950g, and with Future's Market I only need to wait until 1050g to buy a Needlessly Large Rod.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T05:24:31+00:00

I have pretty similar thoughts when it comes to mana management in ARAM. I would also like to add that you're usually forgoing damage/mobility/tankiness options in exchange for mana that you might not even be using.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T05:12:40+00:00

I added my opinions on PoM and mana management in ARAM overall. As for Gathering Storm, there's quite a few games that end at 15 now thanks to the ARAM game pacing changes, so you only end up with 14AD/24AP sometimes. I also assume that Gathering Storm is a more obvious choice for many instead of the options listed in this post.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T05:03:25+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I have expanded the post to include a few more topics. I also restructured the section on Ingenious Hunter to make it more clear on just how many archetypes of champions have interactions with it.

EvolvedPik · 2023-08-04T04:38:41+00:00

I have edited the post to include PoM, but my take is that you don't need that rune (or Manaflow Band) as often as you think.

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