I landed my first full-time Software Engineering role! — It’s been an incredible journey to acquiring my first full-time Software Engineering role! So raise your glass in toast, Mission Accomplished! Liberty Mutual offered me a full-time position through their TechStart Full-Time program. But now a new mission begins, actually doing the work of a full-time Software Engineer. But before…

The magic behind your computer monitor explained I’m going to describe how the Internet operates by first envisioning it in its most basic form. So the Internet, in basic terms, is a telephone wire. Computers that are directly connected to this telephone wire can communicate with each other. These computers…

Easy solution for a common rookie mistake by React users — This will be a short but highly significant blog post that will help many React newcomers and even some veterans as well. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve initially generated a new React app project by running the command-line tool create-react-app and the name of my app…

Apply your detective skills to this data types challenge Day 0 of HackerRank’s 30 Days of Code was fairly simple so now, let’s try the challenge for Day 1 Data Types. First let’s look up data types to clarify what this challenge is about. A quick Google search identifies data…

Do you actually know how to code? — I’m currently focusing on algorithms and data structures, important subjects that are the central focus of technical tests. A technical test is a significant hurdle programmers are often required to clear before they land a coveted tech role. …

Taking control of your back end — When receiving input from outside of your app, there’s a risk of inadvertently giving users access to change sensitive information that they shouldn’t be changing. For example, a user should not be able to change their account balance (ex. They could change their actual account balance of $20 to display…

Hackerrank 30 Days of Code Solution — As a fledgling Software Engineer, I’m discovering it truly pays to be curious, instead of leap frogging over important tech milestones. Of course, you can take it to an extreme, chasing one topic after another until you’re deep in the rabbit hole. …

The similarities and differences between data management (CRUD) and data transfer (REST) — CRUD is an acronym that refers to the four basic operations related to data storage. Those four operations are Create, Read/Retrieve, Update, and Delete. Each word is self-explanatory: — Create data and store it in the database — Read or Retrieve data that’s stored in the database — Update or change data…

What happens after the fetch request is complete — Last week, the sub-title of my Fetch! blog post was “Sending a request to the back end server to be processed and then returning the result.” This blog post will go into further detail about the latter part “…then returning the result.” The word then will figure prominently because it’s…