After almost 2.5 years of teaching at Delaware Technical Community College and participating in the New Faculty Development (NFD) program, I had the chance to reflect back and was grateful to see how much I’ve grown and developed as a … Continue reading
Are you a high schooler that wants to learn the basics of computer programming? Have you gone through block programming games like “Hour of Code” ( https://code.org/learn) and wished you could do more “real” programming? Join me in a free … Continue reading
I wanted a simple way to show java code samples in HTML pages. My workflow involves writing all my content using Google Docs and copying and pasting into an LMS (D2L). However, copy & paste rarely works as intended. Code, … Continue reading
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(Note: you can click on the images to enlarge for better view) The Problem/Context: In the name of “design,” sometimes we choose form over function. Â This is my first semester using Canvas for a Penn State World Campus course. Â This … Continue reading
Context: This code controls the media player (http://www.jwplayer.com/) via javascript API.  The inspiration/idea came from Philip Hutchinson’s Easy Captions code (http://pipwerks.com/2010/06/07/for-your-reading-pleasure-easycaptions/) which provides an incredibly elegant solution to captions/transcripts embedded as html (instead of being dynamically loaded). This code basically serves … Continue reading
The last few things tweaked in the calculator are mostly related to the logic of the calculator. Â It is very, very streamlined compared to where I started. Â It was a classic case of I spent about 10 hours to REDUCE … Continue reading
This is part 5 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. This update is mostly about the code structure and design decision about the calculator and its behavior. Technical lessons learned: Adding variable values in the middle of the string is … Continue reading
This is part 4 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. Progress: UI elements will be evenly distributed on any size screen and orientation. Lessons learned: Autolayout is a wonderful thing and Apple does their best to help developers who would prefer … Continue reading
This is part 3 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. Progress Working on UIX (visual cue that a button has been touched) Lessons learned: Yes – there is only one item on this update. Â Adding a state change when a … Continue reading