Jan. 28, 2019, 6 p.m.

🐲"True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know" - Confucius

rendezvous with cassidoo

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week. I had an incredibly busy one, but luckily the work done last week is starting to pay off already. Let's get scootin!
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Web links of the week

Resilient Code Examples with CodePen
Getting started with GraphQL, React and Apollo client
Don’t eject your Create React App
Working with GraphQL using Vanilla JS
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Something that interested me this week

Honestly, it was such a busy week that I didn't do much "extracurricular" work/reading/etc. I'm hoping that the coming weeks are not nearly as busy as this past one! That being said, I discovered a neat little YouTube series of multiple people producing music based on a single clip, and it was very cool to see how that worked.Ā 
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Interview question of the week

We had a bunch of responses this week! I had you check if a string is repeated, and we had answers in C, in Java, in Kotlin, and of course, a couple in JavaScript. I hope you had fun with it!

This week's question:
Given a 2D array of letters and a word w, return whether or not the word exists in the array. Letters can be matched horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Example:
w = 'skated';
q = 'feast';
grid[][] = {
Ā  "axmy",
Ā  "bgdf",
Ā  "xtet",
Ā  "raks"
};
validateBoggle(grid, w);
> true
validateBoggle(grid, q);
> false
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Cool things from around the internet

Dolch.CR
It Took Two Years to Make This Complex Puzzle Box From Scratch
2uts: Free High Quality Tutorials
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Joke

My husband kicked me out of the house for my badĀ Arnold SchwarzeneggerĀ impressions.
I'll be returning!
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That's all for this week friends, have a good one. Be safe, make good choices, and water your plants.

cassidoo

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