New-ish Blog

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Series: Coming back online

In the last two years, I’ve stopped programming in my free time. I was burnt out from four years of night classes and a full-time software engineering job. But my inspiration came back! It felt like it came out of nowhere, but it wasn’t random.

Copy pasting quicksort

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I googled hoare partition quicksort javascript and tested the implementation of the top three results. To validate correctness, I used LeetCode’s Sorting test suite.

Deceptively Simple System of Equations

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I’m currently taking Differential Equations, and I have never felt more mathy. That doesn’t mean I don’t occasionally get stuck on simple algebra. Consider these equations from a homework problem: $$ 2a_{2} + 3a_{1}x + 4a_{0} = 0 $$ $$ a_{2} + a_{1} + a_{0} = 1 $$

Going back to school in my late 20s

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After attending a coding bootcamp, I wanted to go back to school. But why? Am I not a great example of how traditional education has failed to catch on to industry needs?