Erik Anderson articles - 44 total
Open Letter No. 1 To Ali Abdaal, Or, I Feel Personally Called Out
Responding to "🚀 Real Work vs Fake Work" Hey friend, I read your Sunday Snippets email...
tldr: A Delightful Command Line Tool For Programmers In A Hurry
Quick! You need to get a shell command to do what it's supposed to do for you and you don't have time...
How To Send Email With Python, Simply
Hello! I'm working on a video where I will use Python to send myself emails to help me sleep...
Learn Python From Scratch - with futurecoder
I have recently found a neat new (to me) resource for learning Python. It's called futurecoder and...
What do You want to see on YouTube?
Hello Dev community. I've recently felt renewed excitement about my YouTube Channel. I've been making...
Cloud Resume Challenge: Some things I learned
I just completed v1 of my cloud resume challenge. It's available at erikresume.com. I say v1 because...
A Video Solution to "Counting Sheep...", a Codewars Kata
I'm back at it again! Here's another video solution to a Codewars Kata.
A Video Solution to 'Mumbling', a Codewars Kata
I'm back at it! Here's another video solution to a Codewars Kata.
Live Coding (music) - The Sonic Pi Tutorial, section 1.1
Hi. Here's the fruit of my newest project: I'm working through the tutorial that ships with Sonic...
I just discovered Sonic Pi
Sonic Pi is "The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone". It lets your make music through code. I'm so...
Video Solution(s) to List Filtering - a Codewars Kata
I'm trying a new thing (again) here: making videos for YouTube where I walk through the solution to a...
Uber Surge Predicted with Machine Learning | Chicago
https://youtu.be/M016woop34c For starters, there's a youtube video, or you can just read below, if th...
Cookiecutter Data Science for Dummies
I've benefited greatly from Cookiecutter Data Science, but I have not found it very beginner friendly...
Week 0 Wrap
I've come to the end of the first or zero-eth week of the Metis Data Science Bootcamp. As I go over m...
Lessons From Advent of Code: Tuple Unpacking
About 15 days ago, I gave up on Advent of Code for this year. Partly because I wanted to focus on fin...
Investigating tree height of a red black tree
I'm implementing a red black tree in python, with the aim of learning about data structures and algor...
I'm implementing a Red Black Tree in Python
... And you can play with it here: https://repl.it/@ErikKrisotferA/Red-Black-Tree Later I'll write a...
I'm streaming coding live!
Live: implementing a red black binary search tree https://youtu.be/5TbF5hauluQ via @YouTube
What to do with an eclectic background?
I'll start by getting to the point: What should I emphasize/de-emphasize in this background as I move...
I'm streaming live coding challenges on twitch in 5 minutes!
Check it out here: twitch.tv/19bit
Bug Squashing: A singly linked list python implementation | Part 3
In the past two episodes in this series, we defined a Node class, complete with __init__ and __str__...
I'm streaming code wars right now
Check it out at twitch.tv/19bit
A lesson in in-place sorting: the difference between sorted() and .sort() and why it matters.
I've been volunteering as a mentor on exercism.io. It's a website for doing mentored code exercises,...
Counting down to 1K followers
I'm almost at one thousand followers (993 and counting), and I'm unreasonably excited about it. Inter...
My Data Science Hello World
I've been inspired by Nityesh Agarwal and his Build to Learn community to build a data science projec...
What, you may ask, is a Treap?
Computer scientists have funny names for things. A treap is a tree and a heap. Specifically a binary...
Singly Linked List: A Python Implementation | Part 2 | __str__ Method
In the previous post, I started by making a Node class. I also included an __init__ method, to make...
Why is a Docker container not a virtual macine?
I'm not clear on the difference between a virtual machine and a container. They both seem to be tryin...
Singly Linked List: A Python Implementation
Recently in my computer science course I implemented a singly linked list for an assignement. To soli...
Python Dictionary Implementation Question
I'm curious about the implementation of dictionary in python. I'm learning about hash tables in my co...