Rachael Ghorbani

Published in The Startup

·Jan 11, 2021

isPalindrome()

A common interview question to ask junior engineers (or so I’ve heard) is some variation of, given a word or sentence, determine whether or not said word or sentence is a valid palindrome. …

Data Structures

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Data Structures

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Published in The Startup

·Jan 4, 2021

Basic Side Navigation Bar using Vanilla CSS

After what simultaneously felt like two weeks, and two years, I finally graduated from Flatiron’s software engineering program, yay! As I began working on my resume, and everything else I needed to accomplish before I could officially begin my job search, I realized a couple of things: 1. The bootcamp…

React

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Basic Side Navigation Bar using Vanilla CSS

React

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Published in The Startup

·Oct 17, 2020

Creating a Welcome Page Using React Particles.js

I always wondered how websites created those cool, moving, constellation-looking, backgrounds. After some digging, I discovered react-particles-js, a React-ified version of the lightweight tsParticles library used for creating particle effects. tsParticles is a TypeScript library based off of Particles.js. It provides the same functionalities as Particles.js …

Particles

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Particles

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Published in The Startup

·Sep 26, 2020

Basic Animation Using HTML Canvas and Javascript

Javascript can do a lot of cool things. The introduction of the canvas element in HTML5 expanded what we can do with Javascript even further. So what is a canvas element? It’s an element that acts as a container for javascript drawn graphics. Although we won’t demonstrate this here, you…

Html5 Canvas

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Basic Animation Using the HTML Canvas and Javascript

Html5 Canvas

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Published in The Startup

·Sep 5, 2020

Creating a Sort Drop Down in Rails Using Form_With

We’re going to make a simple sort drop down with two options using form_with, a rails form helper. Before we get started, what exactly is form_with and why is it useful? Prior to Rails 5.1, we had only form_for and form_tag form helpers. form_for is used to create and update…

Rails

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Creating a Sort Drop Down Using Form_With

Rails

5 min read

Aug 16, 2020

Keyboard Shortcuts for Programmers

After watching my bootcamp instructor highlight 10 words in as many sentences, all in about half a second, I knew I needed to step up my shortcut game. A quick Google search for MacBook keyboard shortcuts left me feeling a bit overwhelmed, so I decided to do a little research…

Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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