14 Coding Challenges to Help You Train Your Brain
Programming is becoming an essential part of nearly every industry known to man, the way it helps to organize and maintain large systems is not possible to compare to anything else, and so more and more people begin their journey. You can learn to code both from interactive platforms and also from books – whichever you find most appropriate and easy to learn from. But, sometimes that’s not good enough, and we want to practice new things. Coding is a lot about creativity, your ability to come up with new and interesting ideas; but sometimes, due to a large amount of time spent tackling common problems, we forget about creativity. I’m not quite sure whether that is the reason coding challenges were made, but they certainly help with the part where you need to think of your own stuff to program. We could say that coding challenges are great for: 1. 2. HackerEarth provides a SaaS application to do an automated assessment of the technical and logical skills of candidates. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10.
30 Quick Ideas to Make your Website Look Nicer
As we launch newer projects, it is easy to forget about updating older blogs and websites. In this article I want to present 30 solid ideas you can quickly implement to make your website just that much more user-friendly. Not all of them are based solely on front-end design. I will also discuss popular HTML5 coding techniques which can help web parsers and spiders to categorize your data appropriately. Not every website will need to be updated, and not with every technique available in this post. 1. I am guilty of not always running tests on my website launches, but whenever possible this is one of my favorite activities. The potential benefits you can find are enormous. Read Also: Useful Web Usability Testing Tools 2. We can think of whitespace as the amount of room between elements in your page. You may determine areas which need extra spacing through split A/B Tests and retaining user feedback. Also Read: 100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Related: 8. 10.
Identifying Electronic Components
How-to identify and locate information for electronics components you can recycle from discarded gadgets. Brandon gives us example pictures and descriptions for most types of electronics components to help you stock up your home electronics lab. This is a must read for new electronics hobbyist. This article was submitted by Brandon Uhlig as part of the “Hobby parts for articles ” program. Brandon receives a Modern Device Company Bare Bones Arduino Kit for this fantastic article. Scrounging for parts is a great way for hobbyists to save some money. The focus will be on common reusable through-hole components hobbyists will be most likely to scrounge and re-use. Obviously, this is by no means a complete list, there are way to many different electronic components to put into a quick guide, but maybe this will give you some ideas to narrow down your search on an elusive component. Resistors are one of the most used components in a circuit. Potentiometers are variable resistors. Answers——————
Getting Started with Twitter Bootstrap
Building a website from the ground up is very hard. Even some people who are able to code in web languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS would find difficulties in the process. Fortunately, a few Twitter developers and designers are aware of this situation and had launched a framework called Bootstrap to make life easier for web designers and developers. And, in this post, we are going to look into Bootstrap and try out a few of the features provided, to see how this framework can speed up our web development process. Utilizing Bootstrap Bootstrap is a very powerful framework for front-end development, and is equipped with a bunch of features we need to develop a fully functional website faster and easier without having to build it from scratch. Now, we assume that you have downloaded Bootstrap and have all the assets on set including the JavaScript and the CSS as follows; We can start trying out some of these features. CSS Base: Button The Bootstrap style is built with LESS. jQuery Plugins
Hot cocoa cookies
I am a teeny bit obsessed with the cookies from the most recent issue of EveryDay with Rachael Ray magazine. This recipe is the second of many cookie recipes on my list to make this holiday season. Sweets are taking over my life! I don't think I need to tell you that these were tasty. Ooey gooey chocolatey marshmallowy deliciousness. In a medium saucepan, melt together: 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter 12 oz. chopped semisweet chocolate (bars) Stir frequently over medium heat until smooth. In a medium bowl, whisk together: 1 1/2 cups flour 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Using an electric mixer, beat together: 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar 3 eggs, at room temperature 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Beat on low speed until smooth, 2 minutes. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Meanwhile, cut 7.5 ounces of semisweet chocolate (bars) into 1-inch squares. Grate 5 ounces of semisweet chocolate over the hot cookies. Enjoy!
Better and Sharper UI Icons with Web Fonts
If you are familiar with using bitmap image formats (like PNG and GIF) to display icons on a website, then you would also be familiar with its shortcomings. First of all, depending on the dimension and how many color information that the icon has, an icon file size could be very large. If we have too many icons to put in a website, it will also potentially slow down website performance as many HTTP requests have to be conducted by the browser. Although this problem can be solved with CSS sprite, the file size is still large. Bitmap icon also has shortcomings in flexibility and scalability; let’s say we need to enlarge or zoom the icon to a certain level, or view it through a very high screen resolution such as on the retina display; the icon will definitely turn out looking blurry. Well, if you take some of those matters above into account, you probably need to use icon fonts. Using Icon Fonts Here are some of the best free icon fonts we can find: @font-face Rule Demo @font-face Demo Unicode
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100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs
Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors. Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. Below are more than 100 excellent examples of clean, simple and minimalist website designs. Rainfall DaffinsonA white background with red accents. Ben Hulse DesignDark gray background with white and gray lettering. Amy Levy PRWhite background with gray and red lettering. Brand Spanking NewA black and white color scheme with gray, orange, and pale blue accents. Frieze MagazineA minimalist grid design. Indie LabsA dark gray, white and sky blue grid-based design. Rikcat IndustriesAn entirely black and white design. The Morning NewsA minimalist magazine-style site. Mark Boulton DesignA mostly black and white site with colored accents. JonnotieA gray and maroon design.
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