Jacob KnopfAccessibility: Why Your Website Needs to Be Compliant in 2024In the ever-changing world of web design and development, accessibility is no longer just optional, it’s essential. With continuously…Apr 1Apr 1
Jacob KnopfinThe StartupMore Sorting Algorithms: Heapify with HeapsortI have another sorting algorithm to discuss this week, and it’s called Heapsort. You can think of it as a kind of enhanced Selection Sort…Aug 1, 2020Aug 1, 2020
Jacob KnopfSorting Algorithms Continued: What Is Recursion?Last week I introduced how to implement Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, and Selection Sort with code examples, and in this post I’m going to…Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
Jacob KnopfCommon Sorting Algorithms: Ace That Next Technical InterviewIn this post I want to go over how to sort collections in Ruby, and no I don’t mean — array = [1, 5, 4, 5, 2].sort — I’m talking about…Jul 18, 2020Jul 18, 2020
Jacob KnopfinLevel Up CodingBig O Notation: Calculating Time ComplexityPreparing for technical interviews can be difficult, frustrating, and confusing at times. As I continue my job search I thought I would…Jul 11, 2020Jul 11, 2020
Jacob KnopfAn Overview of the Rails Data TypesIn my previous post I discussed Rails migrations, and how the documentation is great for providing necessary insight about most questions…Jul 4, 2020Jul 4, 2020
Jacob KnopfA Review of Rails Migrations: Concepts to RememberToday I want to review Rails migrations, specifically some important concepts you’ll at least want to familiarize yourself with if you…Jun 27, 2020Jun 27, 2020
Jacob KnopfRuby Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas: What You Need to KnowWhen I first started learning about closures in Ruby I was pretty confused what the differences were between code blocks, procs and…Jun 20, 2020Jun 20, 2020
Jacob KnopfUtilizing Hooks in a React ComponentThere have been many updates to React.js since it was released seven years ago, especially with the addition of the ES6 syntax in 2015…Jun 13, 2020Jun 13, 2020
Jacob KnopfinThe StartupNode.js Error Message “getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND localhost” SolutionToday I want to go over a quick fix to an error that had me very confused when I first started my program at Flatiron. If you try to run…Jun 5, 2020Jun 5, 2020