Brian Harvey’s CS61A course: getting OOP Scheme programs working in 2021
I’ve been working through Brian Harvey’s CS61A course, as recommended by teachyourselfcs.com. It’s mind-blowing, but it’s also almost ten years old now and u...
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Advent of Code 2020
This was my first year of Advent of Code. Sucked in by the fun but achievable challenges of the first week, I made a commitment to a couple of people that I ...
Project: Job vacancy data scraper
I’ve just completed a new project: a command line Python program to scrape job vacancies for a given search term from Indeed.co.uk, geocode, and save in JSON...
cs50: pset 8 (SQL, user authentication, API calls) and why early decisions matter
This is the big one! A stock trading app, allowing the user to register, log in, buy and sell shares and log out, all using Flask, SQLite and an API call to ...
cs50: pset 7 (more Python, Flask, managing user input and responsive design)
Part 2 of my summary of CS50 and problem sets 7, 8 and the final project. This is where it gets really cool. If you’d told me at the start I would be coding ...