Lauren GreenbergHow does the Garbage Collector Work?When I worked for an environmental education program, there was a skit that we performed for every group of kids about resource…Mar 2, 2018Mar 2, 2018
Lauren GreenbergWhy does Recursion Work? aka Where are the values stored in Recursion?I think Recursion is hard to understand. A friend explained that this is because this isn’t how your brain works. I can’t easily picture…Jan 30, 2018Jan 30, 2018
Lauren GreenbergOne process of reducing time-complexityRecently a friend and I were working on this problem:Jan 21, 2018Jan 21, 2018
Lauren GreenbergWhy is my loop only running once?In today’s installment, I re-learn how scope applies to my code. It’s particularly ironic because I was just making flashcards, one of them…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Lauren GreenbergWhat my Knitting taught me about TDDI’ve started knitting hats recently, and have been thinking a lot about whether or not there is any similarity to code, other than…Jan 7, 2018Jan 7, 2018
Lauren GreenbergIs this a Palindrome? Translating between Ruby and JavaScriptLast week a friend presented me with this problem from Project Euler, and we went through a basic solution for it.Dec 26, 2017Dec 26, 2017
Lauren GreenbergGames Galore: Checkers & DominoesA friend challenged me today with this visual-computational question:Dec 18, 2017Dec 18, 2017
Lauren GreenbergHashmaps are always the answerI have recently started practicing for interviews, and in the types of questions I have encountered, the one commonality is that hashmaps…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
Lauren GreenbergPart 1: How to implement Google Sign-In with React (Front-End)Ok. So I decided to try to make a project where users could sign in with their Gmail account, so that I wouldn’t be responsible for…Nov 8, 2017Nov 8, 2017
Lauren GreenbergLifecycle Events (Components)Growing up with a relatively religious family and having worked for a non-profit centered around intergenerational education, I’ve spent a…Sep 5, 2017Sep 5, 2017