Hello friends!
Welcome back. We finally made it to December! Hope you're staying warm and cozy this season. Let's boogie.
Web links of the week
Introduction to React 16.2 Fragments
Build a Regex Engine in Less than 40 Lines of Code
How Redux Can Make You a Better Developer
An Introduction to Scrollama.js
A useful list of must-watch talks about CSS
Something that interested me this week
This weekend was the 40th
Ludum Dare game jam! It's an online game jam (aka hackathon for games) that happens every 4 months. I started attempting to participate, but seeing as I haven't made a game before, it didn't go well and I backed out this time around. I'm going to work on learning more about game dev so I can participate in the future. That being said, I learned about a bunch of cool resources for game dev, like
this sound generator and
this tool for making music and
this tile creator. Some of the submissions are coming in and they look amazing (
this is my favorite one so far). I really hope that something I make can in the future is half as good as some of these. Until then, I'll just be watching and learning!
Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you find a unique number in an unsorted array of duplicate numbers. There's a ton of different solutions to this problem! Some people were able to
solve it in one line, and one guy wrote
a fun blog post on his approach. My favorite answer (purely because it's really interesting) is
one that I saw on Stack Overflow, where you XOR all of the elements in the list, and the only element that isn't 0 as a result is the answer.
This week's problem:
Given an array of numbers, return a list of all pairs that add up to zero.
Cool things from around the internet
It’s a Living: Meet One of New York’s Best Professional D&D Dungeon Masters
Why I Care So Much About Inclusivity
Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
Clueboard Rescue
Joke
I just got a new bike for my husband. It was a good trade.
That's all for now, folks! Be safe, make good choices, and see you next time!
cassidoo
