February 15, 2023

🎓 My Time At The Recurse Center

I recently completed a six week batch at The Recurse Center. I had a magical time and learned at a tremendous pace.

For my full thoughts and reflections, see my recent post My Time At The Recurse Center. Otherwise, here are the highlights!

I knew that I wanted to write a lot at RC. In my application interviews, I was asked how I would be able to tell if my batch was a success and I said I hoped to leave behind many technical artifacts, like repositories and blog posts.

At RC, I wrote five blog posts:

• Sandboxing JavaScript Code
• Implementing Highlighting, Search, and Undo
• Making a Text Editor with a Game Engine
• Profiling and Optimizing an Interpreter
• Adding For Loops to an Interpreter

I worked on a range of projects, including:

• A text editor
• A programming language called nodots
• A sandbox project for executing untrusted JavaScript/TypeScript code
• An example of how to make web requests from a V8 Isolate
• A Brainfuck compiler (with Sam)
• Design tweaks, a /notes page, and and end-to-end tests for my website
• An AI for 2048 (with Sam)
• A website to share baby photos with my family
• A tiny Python application that shows how far your cursor has travelled

I tried to get through a stack of technical books but didn’t make much of a dent 😅

I pair programmed a lot, made many friends, and wholeheartedly recommend the experience.

Cheers,

Andrew