Learning in Public

There's a lot I want to learn, and a lot I've learned and documented. Here's where I list both.

To Learn

My current focus is Computer Science fundamentals and all things JavaScript. (They stay here until I write about it.)

JavaScript

Concepts

• Bitwise Operators
• Map, Set, WeakMap, and WeakSet
• Closures
• Promises, Async/Await, Microtasks,and the Event Loop
• Generators

Document Object Model (DOM) and Web APIs

• Scrolling
• Drag and Drop
• WebSockets
• File Handling

Networking

• Sockets

Databases/APIs

• GraphQL
• NoSQL (MongoDB, Firebase)
• Swagger - UI, Codegen, Docs
• JWT token generation and client side handling

DevOps and CI/CD

• Docker
• Creating a Pipeline

Tools/Frameworks/Concepts

• Webpack
• Vuex

• Git

  • Merge, Rebase, Branch, Stash, Pull Request

Computer Science

Algorithms

• Complexity (Big O notation)

  • Size complexity
  • Time complexity

• Sorting

  • Bubble
  • Insertion
  • Selection
  • Merge
  • Heap
  • Quick

• Searching

  • Binary search
• Pattern matching
• Recursion

Data Structures

• Lists

  • Arrays
  • Linked lists
  • Singly linked lists
  • Doubly linked lists
• Stack
• Queue
• Hash tables

• Trees

  • Binary tree
  • Segment tree
• Heap
• Graph

Learned

This is not everything I know, but a good amount of the things I've documented since I started this site.

JavaScript

Concepts

• Syntax and Code Structure
• Comments
• Datatypes
• Strings
• Strings (cont.)
• Variables, Scope and Hoisting
• Math
• Arrays
• Array Methods - Mutator
• Array Methods - Accessor
• Array Methods - Iteration
• Objects
• Object Methods
• Date and Time
• Conditional Statements and Logic
• Switch
• While and Do While Loops
• For Loops
• Functions
• Prototypes and Inheritance
• Classes
• ES6
• Buffers
• MVC - Model View Controller
• Bind, Call, Apply and this

Document Object Model (DOM)

• The DOM
• DOM Tree and Nodes
• Accessing the DOM
• Traversing the DOM
• Changing the DOM
• Events
• Local and Session Storage
• Cookies, Local Storage, and Authentication

Frameworks/Libraries

• Vue.js

• React

  • Hooks API
  • Context API
  • Content Editable
• jQuery

Databases/APIs

• Production Node.js, Express REST API with PostgreSQL + Deploying to Heroku

PHP

• Authentication, Routing, Sessions (via Laconia MVC)
• CRUD: Creating and Reading
• CRUD: Updating and Deleting
• File Uploads
• WordPress Basics
• WordPress Intermediate
• WordPress Custom Fields

CSS

• Responsive (Media Queries, Breakpoints)
• Shapes
• Sass
• Bootstrap

Tools/Frameworks/Concepts

• Git

  • Push, Pull, Commit
• Mac Development
• Command Line
• Grunt
• Gulp
• Node.js Ecosystem
• Express
• LAMP Environment
• Apache/Virtual Hosts
• JSON
• REST API
• SSL/TLS
• Static Site Generators
• Bash
• Object-Oriented Paradigm

Databases

• SQL

Testing

• JavaScript Unit Tests with Jest or Mocha

DevOps and CI/CD

• AWS S3, EC2, RDS, Route 53
• Vagrant/VirtualBox