Scott Robinson

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Dijkstra's Algorithm in Python

Dijkstra's algorithm is an algorithm which finds the shortest paths between nodes in a graph. It was designed by a Dutch computer scientist Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1956, when he thought about how he might calculate the shortest route from Rotterdam to Groningen. It was published three years later. In...

Mila Lukic

Sep 03, 2021·15 min read

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Dijkstra's Algorithm vs A* Algorithm

Every single search algorithm consists of: The current state of the problem Possible actions that can be done in order to change that state The ability to recognize the final state - our goal When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, there are two types of search algorithms: Uninformed search algorithms...

Mila Lukic

Aug 30, 2021·11 min read

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Git: Stashing Uncommitted Changes

If you've been working with Git long enough, you've probably had times where you made changes to your codebase, but needed to switch branches or work with the latest working version of your code. However, you don't want to lose the changes you've made already, but they're not yet ready...

Scott Robinson

Jun 10, 2021

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How to Get the Current Date in JavaScript

Whether you are creating a daily routine app, your own blog, or most any other type of dynamic web app, you will probably need to work with dates. In this article, we're going to learn how to get the current date in JavaScript, so you can successfully develop your applications....

Lazar Ristic

Jun 01, 2021

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Git: An Introduction for Beginners

Software development is inherently full of challenges. This ranges from architecting your software, maintaining it, fixing bugs, deploying, and the list goes on. When starting out, you'd think that the easy part would be to share you code with others. After all, they're just text files, right? This may not...

Scott Robinson

Feb 28, 2020·6 min read

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Git: Adding a Commit Message

As many programmers have found out the hard way, adding documentation is extremely important in being able to easily make modifications to your code, fix issues, pass off to others, etc. Just because your code makes sense now doesn't mean it'll make sense to you in 6 months (or even...

Scott Robinson

Feb 26, 2020·2 min read

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JavaScript: Check if String Contains a Substring

A common operation in many programming languages is to check if a string contains another string. While it's a simple and common task, the method names often differ between programming languages. For example, here is a small sample of the methods used to achieve this in various languages: Java: String....

Scott Robinson

Jan 06, 2020·4 min read

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NPM: Install Specific Version of a Package

NPM, or the Node Package Manager, is a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage dependencies, run scripts, and organize project metadata. It's main purpose, however is to help you download and install Node packages from its repository to your project. Downloading and installing a package is done using...

Scott Robinson

Jan 01, 2020·2 min read

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JavaScript's encodeURI Function

For much of JavaScript's life, it was a browser-only programming language and could not run on the server-side like it can now. Because of this, JS has a lot of built-in functions that are specific to browser-side functions, like encoding strings for use in URLs. Some of the most commonly...

Scott Robinson

Dec 30, 2019·3 min read