Let’s be honest, if you’re self-taught, there’s a high chance that algorithm topics wouldn’t even be on your radar. In part, it’s because you’re most likely preoccupied with other things — like getting your application to run, figuring out why your npm commands aren’t

Learning programming is like learning a completely different language. It gets even worse for a person coming into the field to be bombarded by long tutorials littered with words that makes no sense. All the words below have more than a million words written about them. But we don’t

Promises. I remember it being such a weird concept when I discovered them half a decade ago. I remember reading so many articles but all I could gather from them was either a story about someone promising to come back or the word ‘promise’ repeated over and over again. Somehow,

Learning JavaScript can be confusing, especially when some articles sprinkle in acronyms like ES5, ES8, ES followed by some number. Here’s a fun 2 minute history lesson to make sense of it all. 1995 — a guy named Brendan Eich was recruited by Netscape to make a language that could

Prototypes is a weird and much avoided topic but vital towards mastering JavaScript. While classes are much easier to understand and is often the starting point for many when learning object oriented programming, prototypes is the foundation on which JavaScript is built. It looks like a class, it smells like

Anti-patterns. They are the bane of many developers that’s had the misfortune of meeting one. The pyramid of doom is often one that a lot of new JavaScript developers write. Most of the time, it’s written in innocence with no code janitor to tell them otherwise. I’ve

when == != === and returns true instead of false

Don’t get me wrong, JavaScript is amazing. But the first release was designed and created in 10 days. No one envisioned that it would one day take over the web and morph into a very special giant that needs a little bit of organization. That’s where bundling comes

Functional programming is something that existed for much longer than object oriented, dating back to the ancient days of Turing machines. It has seen ebbs and flows in popularity over time, based on whatever programming language and its foundational paradigms have taken over as part of the developer’s toolkit.

Selection sort is one of the easiest sorting algorithms to understand. In part, because there is minimal complexity. However, simplicity does come with its pitfalls. Here is a quick low down on what selection sort is, how to write one, when and where you’d most likely encounter it. How

There are a lot of guides out there in the wild, most of the time, telling you what languages to learn and the hottest thing to know so that you’ll be an industry unicorn. While they may be useful, they only guide you on the surface value. They give

Ideas are the building blocks of code. They give you the scaffold of how to think, how to create, and how to best write your code. Without it, you’ll be coding yourself into a corner in no time. Lack of knowledge and awareness is also how code smell starts.

Not all functions are made equal. A class is essentially a family of functions that are related to each other in some way. They may have commonality under a certain category. They may have similarities in what they do. Whatever the case, sometimes, it’s just better to write your

We’ve all heard of the DOM at some point. It’s a topic that is quickly brushed over, and there’s not enough discussion of it. The name shadow DOM sounds somewhat sinister — but trust me, it’s not. The concept of DOMs is one of the foundations of

Regular expression — or regex — is something that we all, as developers, will encounter at some point. For many, it remains a form of gibberish. For some developers, they avoid it simply because it feels like it’s just too hard to get your head around. Whatever your case, here is

Currying is a topic that often sits in the more advanced user circles of JavaScript. It extends beyond the usual usage of functions and methods and starts to dive into the structural side of code. When you start to build more complex applications, you start looking into your toolbox for

The thing with frontend frameworks and libraries is that you’ve got a scaffold to work against. There are set rules that you have to follow to make things work. However, the front end by itself isn’t that useful. It might look good, but functionality-wise, it’s an isolated

No lingo. Written for humans. With code snippets. In 5 minutes.

JSON is probably one of the most underrated programming language in existence. Not only is it so widespread, it’s lightweight and no-nonsense demeanor makes JSON feel almost native to whichever language it pairs up with. Yes. That’s right. JSON is it’s own language, despite becoming somewhat synonymous

Hello everyone! For today’s post, I’ve decided to do a summary map of the fundamentals of JavaScript. It’s made with the beginner in mind and basically summarizes the main foundational concepts without you needing to spend hours reading up on everything. The point is to give you

There’s a lot of love and hate talk when it comes to object-oriented programming. Don’t get me wrong, OOP has both its perks and quirks — but at the end of the day, it’s only as good as your design patterns. A lot of us only get to

The concept of immutability is a funny one. In one translation, it can mean unchanging — however, setting something up as a let or var and then not allowing it to change might as well be as good as using const There are a lot of people who take this translation

7 Things About JavaScript Objects summarized succinctly

Back in September, I wrote this story [https://medium.com/madhash/how-variable-types-can-determine-the-life-or-death-of-cats-in-javascript-b1cd2f50a8b1] on var, let and the keyword this However, some people still found it hard to distinguish between the difference — or rather, they wanted something that was more visually accessible. So I decided to change the format a little

Traditionally, structural patterns are described as the thing that helps simplify the process of object composition. Its purpose is to help identify the relationship between different objects, making sure that if something changes within the system, it doesn’t force the entire system to change with it. Let’s begin