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Studious Beginners

Studious Beginners

For the past few years, our front page copy at Launch School has carried the words of our school’s motto:
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Chris Lee
How I Built a Custom Framework and App with Rack: Part 1

How I Built a Custom Framework and App with Rack: Part 1

I was introduced to Rack while working with Sinatra and was only vaguely knowledgeable about what it meant for Sinatra to be “built on top…
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Tannr Allard
Pseudo Classical Style vs Objects Linking to Other Objects, in their own voices.

Pseudo Classical Style vs Objects Linking to Other Objects, in their own voices.

Moderator: Good evening everyone, and thank you for coming. As a fledgling programmer, you’ve likely been introduced to a variety of Object…
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Robert Hustead

JavaScript: Building Custom Functions, for Greater Programming Enjoyment (`console.log` and `===`)

JavaScript: Building Custom Functions, for Greater Programming Enjoyment (`console.log` and `===`)
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Nick Johnson

Getting Started with Ruby Exceptions

This article is cross posted from Launch School’s blog. Check it out for more posts about programming and mastery-based learning.
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Elizabeth T
How to read source code without ripping your hair out

How to read source code without ripping your hair out

Write More Code
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Sun-Li Beatteay
Demystifying Ruby Applications, Ruby Application Servers, and Web Servers

Demystifying Ruby Applications, Ruby Application Servers, and Web Servers

Introduction
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Tannr Allard
Params in Rails: Where do they come from?

Params in Rails: Where do they come from?

Rails Params Explained
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Sun-Li Beatteay
Keep Pushing Through the Pain

Keep Pushing Through the Pain

So on first glance this post could be about a lot of things, working out, eating better, quiting smoking. But in my case it is about…
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Matt Borgman
Javascript: let’s meet the event object

Javascript: let’s meet the event object

Whenever you interact with your browser, your browser creates an event object.
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Tovi Newman
Object Oriented Biology

Object Oriented Biology

One thing I’ve found helpful in learning new programming concepts is to come up with analogies to other unrelated ideas with which I’m…
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Alex Dzwonchyk
On LaunchSchool Interview Assessments

On LaunchSchool Interview Assessments

Assessments train you to understand problems, not memorizing solutions to problem. If you think that you can get away passing a test by…
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Gooi Ying Chyi

Parenting Prepared Me for Programming

My career path has been bumpy, winding and frequently interrupted. It has finally brought me back to a subject for which I had a passion…
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Elise Olivares

A Verbal Diagram of Prototype Inheritance

In JavaScript, objects delegate to each other using prototypes instead of inheriting from classes as in many other languages. This topic…
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Elise Olivares
How to Solve a 1 kyu Kata on Codewars (or any difficult programming exercise)

How to Solve a 1 kyu Kata on Codewars (or any difficult programming exercise)

A walkthrough of how I solved a level 1 kata on Codewars, and my approach to problem solving in general (based on Launch School)
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Nick Johnson

Infinite Recursion and Variable Scope in JavaScript

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Peter Reznick
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