“Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city?”
This seemingly benign question has had a vast influence in its purest formulation within the areas of theoretical computer…
As full-stack developer in-training, I have found using Github as a medium for code management to be seamless and coherent in many instances, and maddening in others. I certainly recognize its utility in working on group projects, and I appreciate all of the Git-related features that are found in VS…
Coming from an educational and work background in architecture, a field which has been wholly dependent on software applications for decades now, I have long been familiar with the use of both bitmap and vector graphics in the production of construction documents. Most CAD modeling programs utilize the latter, vector…
In the software development arena, mastering server-side processes and the necessary steps to retrieving data via external APIs emerges gradually through hands-on experience. Fortunately, once many of the basic principles behind back-end development are apprehended, and setting up applications becomes more routine, there are numerous software tools available which facilitate…
As a developer in training, I have found React to be the best overall framework for handling the front end of web applications, and have become acquainted with the syntax required to manipulate state. Ultimately state is the medium in which data is shared between components, and the process of…
React Router is a routing library for React. This library is ideal for single-page applications which have multiple views, or pages. The advantage of single-page applications is that they don’t require a page reload when new data is rendered. …
Many developers opt to use Markdown, a markup language which is popular for writing blogs, readme files, and many other forms of documentation related to web development. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool which allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally…
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows developers to generate server-side tools and applications using JavaScript, and to be able to do so outside of a browser context. Using this framework has many advantages: Node.js requires less context-shift between client-side and server-side code, it is optimized for scaleability…
The core technology of the World Wide Web is HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It’s the communication protocol that is used any time one browses the web. At a fundamental level, when you visit a website, your browser makes an HTTP request to a server. Then that server responds with…
