In the last part, we did some work on comparisons, solving an interesting exercise. Now – we’ll learn more about Closure by solving another fun exercise. Just to remind you – we picked these exercises up from Kyle Simpson’s You Don’t Know JS book series,… Read More »JavaScript – Practicing Closure
I found some interesting exercises in the new, second edition of Kyle Simpson’s You Don’t Know JS series. At the end of the first book, he provided the reader with some practical examples of the topics learned. This time we will be solving a neat… Read More »JavaScript – Practicing Comparisons
What are the differences between function declarations and function expressions? We’ll find out in this article. We know how to write functions in JS, right? We use the function keyword, whose main role is to create a function. But did you know that there are… Read More »JavaScript – Function Declarations vs. Function Expressions
In computer programming, a variable or scalar is a storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a value or in easy terms… WIKIPEDIA If the above Wikipedia definition of a variable seems a tad bit too confusing – do… Read More »Variables in JavaScript
The shell maintains an active command line history. It is an amazing and helpful feature that keeps the track of all the commands that have been entered. Apart from keeping track of all the commands ever typed in in the terminal, we could also reuse… Read More »Using history in command line
This article on escape characters is a natural continuation of the last, which dealt with the echo method. If you, still can’t fully grasp the notion of the echo I fully encourage you to first read that article, and then come back. Done? Amazing –… Read More »How to escape characters in the command line?
Echo is a shell builtin that prints out its arguments to the standard output. The echo command is most commonly used in shell scripts and batch files in order to output some textual data to the user. Although the description of echo seems pretty straightforward,… Read More »The echo command in Linux
Depending on the complexity of your application, the stylesheets can be hellish to keep track of and update. Thankfully a collection of principles called modular CSS exist, which helps us write more maintainable and readable code. Modular CSS is just a way to break the… Read More »What is Modular CSS?
This article will cover CSS shadows (box-shadow) and their use in stylesheets. Shadows are used to increase the illusion of depth outside or inside our elements, by giving them depth cues. We can set shadows using the box-shadow property, which creates a shadow of an… Read More »How to use shadows in your CSS
This article will cover CSS gradients and take a took at some real-life uses for them. Most of the time we use solid background colors to style our web application, using the background property. There is actually more to the background property, as it is… Read More »CSS Gradients: An Introduction