Plans for the next nine days

Tomorrow is my last day of class at Hack Reactor before the break starts. I'm absolutely exhausted. There are so many things to do and so many things to learn, that I've decided to list them:

  • Contribute to an open source project
  • If I can get some time with our instructor, get started working on his project, bound.js
  • Do some contract work for a friend of a friend who recently got in touch with me
  • Improve my RoboDuel game
  • Work through more of the programming language design course at Nathan's University
  • Clean up a couple of things on Toshuo
  • Meet up with a couple of cool people I've recently met at meetups
  • SLEEP

I'm especially looking forward to that last one.

Hack Reactor Diaries #3 – RoboDuel with Backbone and CoffeeScript

This week we had a two day make-up cycle in which we could work on whatever we wanted. I used it to make a prototype of a programmable robot fighting game! In the course of doing so, I got to do some more work with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript. It was a lot of fun, too! I plan to work on it some more when I have a chance and I'd love your feedback on it. Gameplay starts 4m20s into the video.

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Hack Reactor Diaries #2

This is an archive of some of my thoughts after completing the first two weeks of Hack Reactor. When I filmed it, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever share it or not, but I’ve decided to go the open route. Warning: it’s not edited and it’s full of uhms and pauses.

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Hack Reactor Diaries #1

This is an archive of some of my thoughts after completing the first two weeks of Hack Reactor. When I filmed it, I wasn't sure if I'd ever share it or not, but I've decided to go the open route. Warning: it's not edited and it's full of uhms and pauses.

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A recursive algorithm for generating all N-Rooks solutions and a linear time N-Queens solution

Below is my interactive implementation of the famous N-Rooks and N-Queens problem. If you're on a feed reader or have disabled for JavaScript some reason, you're missing the main feature of this page! Click below on the board to add and remove pieces. The board indicates threatened pieces. Checking 'All' solutions for rooks shows a random solution and logs them all into the JS console.
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Re-writing Underscore.js

We spent the last couple of days of week 2 at Hack Reactor re-implementing underscore.js functions. It may seem like an odd and useless exercise, but I feel I've gotten some good things out of it.

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