April 16 — Daily CodeNewbie Check-in Thread CodeNewbie Staff on April 16, 2020 You are encouraged to use this daily thread to: Ask for help (all questions encouraged) Explore topics you’re curious about Share something you’v... Read full post Collapse Expand Sibusiso Dlamini Sibusiso Dlamini Sibusiso Dlamini Follow Aspiring Computer Scientist... Location Johannesburg, South Africa Education Rhodes University Joined Nov 15, 2019 • Apr 16 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide I think I finally understand how APIs work!!! 😄 Collapse Expand Peter Kim Frank CodeNewbie Peter Kim Frank CodeNewbie Peter Kim Frank Follow Doing a bit of everything at DEV / Forem Email peter@dev.to Education Wesleyan University Pronouns He/Him Work Co-Founder Joined Jan 3, 2017 • Apr 16 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Awesome! What helped it click? Collapse Expand Sibusiso Dlamini Sibusiso Dlamini Sibusiso Dlamini Follow Aspiring Computer Scientist... 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Email ben@forem.com Location NY Education Mount Allison University Pronouns He/him Work Co-founder at Forem Joined Dec 27, 2015 • Apr 16 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Same 😬 Collapse Expand David Ojeda David Ojeda David Ojeda Follow Fullstack web and backend developer 👨🏻💻 AWS Solutions Architect 🏗 Personal finance junkie 💸 Privacy advocate 🕵🏼♀️ Email davidojeda@hey.com Location Culiacán, Sinaloa, México Education Biomedical Engineer Work Senior Software Engineer at Nubank Joined May 4, 2017 • Apr 16 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide I just started exploring JavaScript testing with Jest. 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Collapse Expand Ben Halpern CodeNewbie Ben Halpern CodeNewbie Ben Halpern Follow A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. Email ben@forem.com Location NY Education Mount Allison University Pronouns He/him Work Co-founder at Forem Joined Dec 27, 2015 • Apr 16 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Good luck!! Collapse Expand Carlos Chacin ☕👽 Carlos Chacin ☕👽 Carlos Chacin ☕👽 Follow Java Dev | Husband | Father ------- Location Seattle, WA Education Computer Science Work Software Developer Engineer Joined Sep 27, 2019 • Apr 17 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Learning and posting about Java Records 🚀 Java 14 Records 💾 (Preview) Carlos Chacin ☕👽 ・ Apr 17 ・ 4 min read #java #jdk #java14 #records Code of Conduct • Report abuse For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
I think I finally understand how APIs work!!! 😄
Awesome! What helped it click?
I tried a project that involved using an API and as daunting as it was when I finally got it to work, it felt really simple.
Kenyan here 🙋🏾♂️
Today, I discovered that taking extended breaks actually helps. You get to see your progress from a refreshing view each time.
It might be revolutionary😅 but hey...
Absoluuuutely. This is universally true. 😄
Almost done with my local Covid-19 tracker side project which also uses contextualsearch's API to curate global news about the virus.
Tech stack is Django + Zurb Foundation + Vanila JS + Postgresql. Hosting is sponsored by Digital Ocean 😄
I've had too much coffee today 🤪
☕️++
Same 😬
I just started exploring JavaScript testing with Jest. I've found it difficult to test async fetch/DOM manipulation interactions 😢
I got two messages from followers on twitter and they mentioned that I'm spreading good content and positivity in the dev community.
Happy to hear.
That burst of positive encouragement can go such a long way 👍
Yeah very happy
I'm diving into MySQL this weekend. I've never touched it before, but I'm hitting it hard and I hope to have a solid grasp on it by Monday!
Good luck!!
Learning and posting about Java Records
🚀 Java 14 Records 💾 (Preview)
Carlos Chacin ☕👽 ・ Apr 17 ・ 4 min read