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How to Conquer the Entry-Level Tech Interview

The novice’s ultimate resource to surmounting the seemingly impossible — from someone who tried too many times to count

9 min readApr 6, 2020

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How to Conquer the Entry-Level Tech Interview

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Back to Basics: Objects

What are Objects, and why are they useful? A simple walk through Object-Oriented Programming’s rites of passage.

5 min readJul 30, 2019

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Back to Basics: Objects

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Your Code Really Stinks, This is How to Improve It

How utilizing your sense of smell can improve your coding ability

8 min readJul 10, 2019

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Your Code Really Stinks, This is How to Improve It

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The One Programming Language to Rule Them All

Theres a language that sits a layer beneath code, and it yearns to be explored

6 min readJun 12, 2019

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How to Get Good at Git

A simple guide to get up and running with Git on the command-line

7 min readMay 13, 2019

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How to Get Good at Git

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Everything You Need to Know About Blocks in Ruby

The complete guide to one of Ruby’s most powerful features

7 min readMay 11, 2019

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Everything You Need to Know About Blocks in Ruby

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High Level Overview of Apache Spark

What is Spark? Let’s take a look under the hood.

9 min readApr 22, 2019

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High Level Overview of Apache Spark

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Why We Need Apache Spark

With immense amounts of data, we need a tool to rapidly digest it—and Spark is the answer

5 min readApr 16, 2019

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How Your Job May Be Crippling Your Tech Skills

A desire for simplistic on-boarding and fail-safe environments ease developers into a self-destructive comfort.

6 min readMar 28, 2019

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How Your Job May Be Crippling Your Tech Skills

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Why You Should be Developing On the Command-Line

Discover the reasons your IDE may be holding you back

6 min readFeb 25, 2019

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Eric Girouard

Eric Girouard

Boston based Software Engineer specializing in Hadoop and big-data development. I enjoy writing about that which I’m passionate about.

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