Allen Shin articles - 29 total
Angular vs. React
I recently had the chance to interview for a company called Flywheel.io, which is revolutionizing the...
Google maps on React
This week I wanted to add a page to my grocery store application where you could show the location of...
Hosting Rails project on Heroku
After you finished your projects, you want to be able to host your project online to show off to your...
Getting started with React Native (Windows)
This week I started working on my first React Native project, and I found the set up to be very simpl...
Project organization
I've been working on a grocery delivery application, and I'm proud to say I reached my goal of finish...
Learning to love programming to learn programming
In past weeks, I've been continuing to upload a bunch of articles that have to do with technical conc...
Redux Persist
As I was working on my project this week, I got authentication with Google to work, but I ran across...
Google Oauth2 on Rails w/ OmniAuth
This week, I tried to focus mainly on my project and started working on the authentication portion of...
Lazy Loading Images
This week, I had the opportunity to submit my first interview assignment during my interview process...
Exploration of recusion and iteration (and most of us already know about iterations)
As is the case with a lot of topics in programming, there is always more than one way to do something...
A plan for the technical interview problem
So last week I wrote about the reflections on my tecnical interview, and I'm glad to say that after a...
Reflections on my first technical interview
This week, I took a bit of a break from doing learning new concepts online, because I actually had my...
Redux: makes things more complicated and then easier
To be honest, this was my first impression of Redux/React-Redux. Redux is basically just another way...
React Navbars with PopStateEvent
Continuing with the React theme, I wanted to touch on a task that always comes up when you're buildin...
React Hooks
Taking a bit of a break from CSS, this week, I've started learning about React hooks. I've heard this...
Simplifying CSS layouts with Grid
Last week, I started my journey in CSS, and it was a relief to know things weren't as hard as I thoug...
CSS Demystified: Flexbox
I decided last week that I wanted to pursue the path of frontend engineering, and in my way to being...
React Review
This week was a bit of a breakthrough week. My current goal was to become a backend engineer, because...
Django/Postgres Setup
I noticed that in a lot of the job postings, I noticed that Django and Postgresql topped the list as...
Sorting things out
This week's punny title is in relation to the topic but also the sort of mood I've been in lately. I'...
Linked lists explained.
For the first time in a long time, I finally started to understand linked lists. I had been looking...
Understanding Execution Context Part 3: Closure
The last two weeks, I talked about two concepts in Javascript that confuse beginners to what they act...
Understanding Execution Context Part 2: Get "this"
In my last post, I went over some introductory concepts regarding the execution context in Javascript...
Understanding Execution Context in JS
It has been about 2 months since I've graduated from FlatIron School (I was lucky enough to finish ri...
Making an Everyday Planner w/ React & Rails
I'm currently working on my final project for Flatiron School and the application I'm making is a nut...
Big O Notation
During my last blog post, I talked about a particular problem which involved using checking 3 differe...
Pythagorean Algorithm explained.
I remember watching one of my friends solve a Rubik's Cube in high school, and just baffled at how he...
Poop on banisters... or CRUD on RAILS
My last blog post, I went over the basic structure of every web application which includes the model,...
Model View Controller: The 3 dimensions of programming
It has been about a year since I decided that I want to switch over to computer science, and since th...