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My First UI Design Project: Building A Photography Portfolio Website
DigitalCrafts student Tracy Nguyen talks about her UI strategy in designing a portfolio site for her photography business.
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The Power of Rubber Duck Debugging: How Teaching Helps You Learn
Sometimes, the best way to make sure that you understand a topic is to explain it to someone else, even if that someone else is a rubber duck. Behold the power of rubber duck debugging.
Published 13th December 20183 minute read
Neato Burrito: JavaScript Promises and Async/Await
Promises were one of the first concepts in JavaScript that really made my brain melt. Then I was taught in my DigitalCrafts class to think of the assembly line at Chipotle, and everything seemed to click into place. And thanks to ES8, we got some syntactic sugar called ‘async/ await’ to clean up our Promises, giving us a shorter, nicer-looking way to write asynchronous functions.
Published 30th November 20185 minute read
Student Blog: Best Text Editors and IDEs for Web Development
The first essential thing for all developers to square away is their development environment. In this article, recent Alumnus Andy Tuttle compares some of the most popular text editors and IDEs to help you get set up and coding away.
Published 25th May 20174 minute read
What is Postman, and Why Should I Use It?
Kevin Farmer explains how Postman improves API development and offers a quick tutorial on this must-have tool.
Published 25th April 20173 minute read