Here's why your JavaScript code isn't executing properly
And what you can do about it
JavaScript is a tricky language. That's probably an understatement for anyone that's spent a lot of time with it. But there are a lot of quirks to the language that can trip up people trying to learn it.
One especially difficult part of the language has to do with how it executes. Rather than the interpreter always running . . .
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Making the Jump from Coding Tutorials to MVC
I can remember how accomplished I felt when I first started learning to program and I completed the codecademy tracks for JavaScript and Ruby. I was excited to think about all the things that I would soon be building. There was just one problem. I still had no idea how to actually build anything.
Don't get me wrong, the tutorials . . .
How to Not Curse Using Recursion
I think for people who are learning to code, recursion is one of the hardest concepts to grasp. I know for me, at one point in time, the thought of calling a function inside of itself made me want to curl up in a ball and cry myself to sleep.
Thankfully, I eventually realized that just because recursion is difficult, it didn't . . .
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Understanding the Reduce Function and How It Can Be Used
Having just completed my first week at Hack Reactor, I now realize that, among many other things, I only had a shallow understanding of the UnderscoreJS reduce function before beginning the program.
What surprised me is that it's actually a very versatile function that can be used to solve a mind-boggling amount of problems. . . .
