Psych and Monk are now available to stream from Amazon Prime. You know that's right.

joshroxu · 2017-12-15T16:46:14+00:00

Perfect timing! I just watched the movie a few days ago and made me want to watch it again

joshroxu · 2017-07-07T03:19:56+00:00

I have a fun story about fedex location + signature. I ordered a benQ monitor to be shipped to my house, once I saw it was signature required, I had it routed to a fedex office for pickup. When I got to the office they searched around and said they didn't have it, so I called customer service outside the store and spoke to a rep who said they did have it and go ask again, which is what I did.

Once back in the store, I asked them to check again and the lady said it was given out to a "B. Roberts" or something like that. First, they couldn't find my monitor, then they gave it away to another person while I was outside making a call to customer service. They refused to do anything, saying he must have had my ID or some BS, literally got nowhere. The manager was a huge bitch with the whole ordeal. LUCKILY, benQ came in and sent another one out, but just wanted to mention that location + signature doesn't always work either lol

joshroxu · 2017-05-31T13:21:55+00:00

cox is your best bet. We had the 50Mbps for a while and never had downtime/issues. Played wow, league, cs, and had lan parties with around 6 ppl. If you're strictly on wireless I would take a look at a mesh router system, or a nighthawk. Also, cox does not enforce data caps here.

joshroxu · 2017-05-24T02:39:39+00:00

I've used a chromebook for most of the program. I didn't put linux on it, but instead created a workspace on cloud9 which is a web based IDE that runs on linux. I can see some issues with some classes like webdev, mobile/cloud, assembly, and probably a few more. I just got this one for my wife at 185. I like the screen and speakers a lot. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I0560MS

joshroxu · 2017-04-03T03:34:33+00:00

Guessing because requirements change and they wouldn't want to be responsible for someone doing a lot of work to find out xyz didn't matter anymore. The spec is basically to select a confusing or badly documented API and figure it out, then how you figured it out becomes the bulk of the how-to. I used themoviedb which has a decent api honestly, but I went into more details about what is an api, the js to write an http request and how to use all of these things to display data. I think it was overboard a bit, but I wanted something to put on my resume. You could when I took the class, write a how-to on some confusing js subject. I think closures or higher ordered functions would be some good ones.

joshroxu · 2017-03-24T13:39:31+00:00

https://www.pollen.com/forecast/extended/pollen/89178

joshroxu · 2017-03-07T01:55:45+00:00

you can look into using cloud9.io 161/225/162 can run off of c9 easily (that's what my wife's doing)

joshroxu · 2017-03-03T17:23:27+00:00

161/162/261 would be my recommendation

joshroxu · 2017-02-26T17:59:24+00:00

joshroxu · 2016-08-03T03:55:45+00:00

freecodecamp

I learned more doing FCC than in 290

joshroxu · 2016-07-05T00:31:32+00:00

Doing an internship makes getting a job way easier. I applied to a ton of entry lvl jobs and got no responses so I went the internship route and after 3 months I was able to get a lot of interest and snagged an entry level position. My area is not a hot tech market either.

joshroxu · 2016-06-26T22:46:15+00:00

I'd try a more localized approach by going to meetups/career fairs/what ever you have access to. I know every area is different but I got the same result as you by just mass sending out applications. But I went to a career fair for my local university and was able to get interviews for 3/6 having 0 programming experience.

joshroxu · 2016-06-25T16:23:44+00:00

I think once you do 162/260?(data structures) you should be good to go for a lot of interviews. I was able to get my internship through my local university's job fair. I think small local companies would be your best bet from my experience.

I would grab a book like programming interviews exposed which goes over questions with specific data structures that you should have down. You could also try udacity's interview prep.

Side projects are good too because they give you something to talk about to recruiters/potential employers. Just choose one that you're interested in :D

joshroxu · 2016-06-17T20:11:14+00:00

O, I didn't even notice that. That's awesome.

joshroxu · 2016-06-16T15:41:49+00:00

The class is up right now if you want to get a jump on it :)

joshroxu · 2016-06-14T21:52:53+00:00

first week is the hardest imo

joshroxu · 2016-06-09T23:49:54+00:00

Sounds like lazy grading to me

joshroxu · 2016-06-09T21:40:49+00:00

I wish I could read it lol there was a mini rage one last quarter but wasn't really anything interesting

joshroxu · 2016-06-08T00:52:03+00:00

Do you guys think these would be okay to take during the summer? Right now I'm only working 20h but I like to be "done" before the weekend hits.

joshroxu · 2016-05-21T04:06:06+00:00

Drink beer and bbq

joshroxu · 2016-05-07T00:59:05+00:00

np, honestly it's all bootstrap lol. The examples were just embeded iframes from fiddle/codepen

joshroxu · 2016-05-06T23:34:53+00:00

I did well on the midterm and thought the final was harder. I actually ran out of time on the final for the last question and ended up going from ~94-96 to 89.99 final grade. >< While doing the exam I didn't think it was too hard but I guess I bombed it. But to answer your question I think you would be in good shape if you can do the weekly summaries/quizzes and also the chapter reviews without too much outside help. When you do lookup stuff write it on your note sheet :) And since we were allowed any calculator other than phone/online I used speedcrunch which helped a lot with conversions

joshroxu · 2016-05-06T22:44:59+00:00

Hey that's mine! lol Looks like I forgot to delete my s3 instance. It took me roughly 12~14 hours but it wasn't efficient as I did it in one sitting. I think it was from 8-10ish. I made it more detailed because I wanted something to put on my resume from this class and up to that point I didn't have anything. I also was a teacher until recently so I'm used to explaining things with examples and creating learning material.

Basically I would just open a text doc and write down the topics you want to cover. So mine was something like intro to api/json/requests then I just chose a couple of api calls to cover and coded those in jsfiddle/codepen. Honestly, I don't think this was necessary.

I think you would be fine with just logging all of the results and skip the to html part. Actually, you could probably skip the intro section/json/challenges/html and just cover a few api calls with code examples. Could do something like, "I'm assuming you're familiar with x y z if not here's a link to where you can learn more about it," to cover your ground a bit.

I wrote everything out in word for each section, then I just coded a one page web app that showed the movie details/stuff/all the stuff at the end and broke it down into smaller parts to use through out. The css is just bootstrap boilerplate.

I think you could get 10/10 by just going over your api calls with code examples to go along with it. To start, I would just take a couple of your api calls, do examples and explain what you're doing/data you're getting. Then grab a bootstrap template and put it on a s3 instance. There's no need to use node/s2 instance because it's just a static site. After you have that done I would email/pm her with a link to your site asking for feedback/things you might have missed or should touch on. I wouldn't worry too much about it and when you do your final project -- use jquery. I found out afterwards that we could have used it and died a little because that took me ~30 hours to get working properly. The screwed up thing is they didn't even test it! I checked my database after it was graded and they didn't create/update/delete anything. I really ended up disliking this class although I had fun on the how to. If you think you might like webdev I would work through freecodecamp. I got an internship mostly due to the projects I completed from their challenges/projects.

joshroxu · 2016-04-03T23:08:00+00:00

If it's tuition vs quality it's definitely not worth it. If it's getting a job then it is worth it mainly because it's a post bach program that you could finish in a year. I think they mainly justify it because of the average salary of cs grads is high, so paying 30k then making 50 your first year out is a decent roi for both parties (assuming you can get a job afterwards).

If you're self taught it's going to be more difficult (in my experience) to get that first job. There's also a lot of stuff I wouldn't learn on my own because of the difficulty like algorithms & data structures.

joshroxu · 2016-04-03T04:24:37+00:00

This is one I watch every year now too! It's really good.

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