Aaron McCollum articles - 26 total
Creating an application using Vite
Up until recently, you could create a React application using Create-React-App. It was a lightweight...
Watching Claude play Pokemon
Currently Claude is playing Pokemon Red on Twitch. It was hard to tell what game it was playing,...
Tips for remote work
Remote work is all the rage these days. Especially after the Covid pandemic and companies embracing a...
My software development journey
A few months ago, I accepted my first software development position with my company. It was a really...
Semantic HTML
HTML has both semantic tags and non-semantic tags. Semantic tags use words that help you understand...
A Short History on the C Programming Language
The C programming language is one of the more classic languages we have today. C was developed by a...
Reviewing "Androids" by Chet Haase
I'm a sucker for a good non-fiction read on technology. A few months ago, I saw an instagram post...
First Coding Meetup of 2022
I was excited to attend my first coding Meetup group here in Tokyo. For awhile the meetup scene was...
Working with the DOM Part 1
This past week has been a lot of focus on JavaScript – learning mainly the fundamentals. Variables,...
Finishing my Landing Page project
This morning I put the finishing touches on my landing page project for The Odin Project’s...
Contributing to Open Source for the first time
When I was 21 years old, I finally worked up the courage to ask a girl out on a date. Friends had...
The Odin Project – 2 weeks in
For the past two weeks, I have been learning through The Odin Project starting with their foundations...
Introduction to Git: Part 2
This is part 2 of the introduction to Git. You can check out Part 1 of the Introduction to Git here,...
An Introduction to Git, Part 1
This is part 1 of an introduction to Git, a version control system that’s very popular with software...
Three nifty shortcuts on the Command Line
The command line is a very useful tool to use to navigate and perform actions on your computer. You...
Common JavaScript errors to watch out for (what what gets me everyday)
An older version of this was originally posted on my blog In the past few weeks, I have been going b...
Making my own code documentation
(This was originally posted on my blog on 1/4/2021) A simple project I started was creating my own J...
A Programmer's Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 2020 has been a tough year and a lot of us have experienced things we...
My 2-week reaction post about App Academy Open
(Note: I wasn't paid or asked to write this article by anyone but my own mind) I stumbled across Ap...
October Updates - Functional Programming!
What a month! It has been awhile since I last wrote a blog post but I have not forgotten about it! A...
First time with a Virtual Machine
A few days ago, I started fiddling around on The Odin Project and was like “what the hey, let’s do...
What have I been doing this week? 8/3-7
Last week I was away visiting family, so I was not coding too much. I did finish up the section on B...
Dice Rolling Program
Recently I started playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons with friends, and the first night I noticed...
My First JavaScript Page
Well y'all, I've made my first JavaScript page that is outside of class assignments. It's fairly sim...
First Profile Site
Today I finished a profile site for myself. This was the final project for freeCodeCamp's Responsive...
Hello World!
What an appropriate title for my first blogpost! Hey everyone, I'm Aaron and someone who is new to t...