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· 6 min read
Josh Kaplan

In preparation for our upcoming pilot bootcamp, I've been working on a few programming challenges. Since we're challenging our bootcamp participants to learn a new language as part of this effort, I thought I'd do the same and finally begin exploring Rust.

· 8 min read
Josh Kaplan
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This article was originally published on jdkaplan.com and is republished here with permission.

Regardless of discipline, many fields need to be able to process, manipulate, and visualize data. This article introduces the basics of plotting data with Python using Matplotlib. View the notebook on Github or experiment with it yourself on Google Colab.

· 18 min read
Josh Kaplan
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This article was originally published on jdkaplan.com and is republished here with permission.

In this article, we discuss asynchronicity in Javascript, its evolution over time, and some of the patterns for dealing with various asynchronous challenges. We'll discuss callbacks, promises, and the present-day async/await approach to asynchronicity and when and how each of these are relevant in modern applications.

· 11 min read
Josh Kaplan
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This article was originally published on jdkaplan.com and is republished here with permission.

In this article we'll build on my previous article, Web Development Basics with Python & Flask and introduce the Javascript language and the concept of asynchronous communication with a webserver to provide a clean and dynamic user experience.