In my post about using regular expressions to find matches in a text file, I promised to tell you about the two applications I used to help me write my regex. By the way, Regex is what the cool kids call Regular Expressions. Let’s state the problem to be solved first. If you have a […]
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I Have Made Fire – I Coded in Perl with Regex!
We’re entering chapter 3 of my quest to provide chapter markers in the podcast. The original request was from Joe LaGreca but since I’ve started talking about it on the show, people have been coming out of the woodwork saying, “Yes, please!” I have been working my little fingers and brain to the bone on […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #509 – Bart Busschots on PBS 43 – Introducing JavaScript ES6
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart spends most of the time talking through his solution to the previous challenge, where we added start and stop buttons to our Game of Life. In his solution, he actually modifies the prototype to accommodate the ability to add these buttons. He explains his process and his […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #505 – Bart Busschots on PBS 41 – Form Events
In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart ties up the last of the loose ends related to web forms. He teaches us about form events, which are critical to making our web forms not only accessible to screen readers but to allow our users to tab around to the different fields and interact with […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #504 – Erica Peterson on Moms Can: CODE
Erica Peterson of Moms Can: CODE joins us this week to talk about her new startup designed to help mothers who code to connect and collaborate. We talk about her life as a mother of a five-year-old, while coding, while teaching high school biology, creating a startup and running a non-profit. The non-profit is called […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #501 Bart Busschots – PBS 39 of x – HTML5 Form Validation
This week Bart Busschots joins us to talk about HTML Form Validation. We’ll get back to our Cellular Automata next week. Bart has also decided that we’re going to get our feet a little bit yet by using GitHub where we’ll be getting the challenges and solutions from now on. You can see Bart’s awesome […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #493 Kelly Guimont on App Camp for Girls
This week our guest is Kelly Guimont. Kelly is a contributing editor to the Mac Observer and also a volunteer at App Camp for Girls, a program that introduces iOS programming to girls in grades 7-9. We talk about how a 3rd grade teacher asking her to crawl under a desk to plug in an […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #492 Bart Busschots – PBS 36 of x – More HTML Text Input | More Cellular Automata
Chit Chat Across the Pond this week is another episode of Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots. I’m very proud of the fact that I completed my homework, writing a program from scratch that passed all of the tests written by Bart. It took me 12 hours, and nearly 4 hours of Dorothy’s time helping […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #487 – Bart Busschots PBS 35 of x – HTML Text Input | Introducing ‘Life’
In this installment, Bart walks us through a little bit of how he wrote his Test Driven Development with QUnit for the Bartificer Link Toolkit. Bart even explains how it helped him find a couple of pretty major bugs in his own code, proving how important this is. Then we’ll move on to formatted sub-sets […]
Continue readingMore TagCCATP #484 – Bart Busschots PBS 34 of x – More JS Testing with QUnit
In this installment of Bart’s Programming By Stealth series, we review our test code using QUnit, and then learn how to use QUnit to test our code within a real browser page. We do that using the API we built together, the Bartificer Link Toolkit that identifies external links on a web page, makes them […]
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