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SoaringDylan

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Hey there! A few days ago I was talking with a fellow programmer friend of mine @Pikochu about the lack of a programming thread on the forum. So I've taken the initiative and created one!

Here we can discuss any topic to do with programming, next to asking questions if we're stuck creating something, most often there'll be someone who knows the solution.
If you're not a programmer or just looking for someone to fulfill a small request, feel free to post here and if you're lucky someone might pick it up :)

Few things to keep in mind:
  • Don't give advice if you don't know what you're talking about
  • It's fine to ask if people wanna work on a project with you, but don't just advertise it.
  • Don't forget your semicolons.
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Bah, sorry for not getting to this thread earlier. I have been pretty VERY busy at my technical fellowship for the past few weeks. Actually, I'm still fairly busy but we are currently working on our projects now.

What have I learned in my fellowship? Well, I mainly get to play with web development which mainly consists of HTML/CSS along with JavaScript. Of course, we went beyond just going the browser and we use Node.js, React, React Native and Redux along with verious libraries such as Postgres, Underscore.js, Bootstrap, Socket.io, Express and so on.

The project I'm currently working on is mainly a series of multiplayer mini-games that can be run on the client-side. Currently, we are just reviewing how we get the login to work and how to set up our user database. Once we get that done, hopefully we can start programming the mini-games themselves.

Along with that, I'm also reviewing Data Structures and Algorithms for interview preparation that I will be doing for months with my fellowship.

SoaringDylan said:
Don't forget your semicolons.
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Unless you're writing in Python or JavaScript. :p

Anyways, I'll be more than happy to help and perhaps work on very small things relating to Python, HTML/CSS and JavaScript if anyone needs help.
 
Good ol' React.js to remind me that i before e except after c.

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Pikochu said:
Unless you're writing in Python or JavaScript. :p
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Or Visual Basic :p

I'm a PHP programmer, learning C# (With the help of @SoaringDylan and youtube).


So my biggest C# accomplishment is that I have a Google Sheets spreadsheet that I use to keep track of my World of Warcraft characters.... but instead of manually updating the sheet whenever I level, I created a program to get the information from Blizzard's servers and update the Sheets... Essentially spending a few days creating a program to save me 5 seconds everytime I play the game... xD

Going to go learn Unity once I'm comfortable enough with C#.
 
Currently working on a project from scratch right now and I just realized what's the most common language in programming.

Profanity. Also a very useful debugging tool for some reason.
 
Pikochu said:
Currently working on a project from scratch right now and I just realized what's the most common language in programming.

Profanity. Also a very useful debugging tool for some reason.
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Have you ever tried the rubber duck method to debugging?
 
Pikochu said:
Profanity. Also a very useful debugging tool for some reason.
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I was actually not expecting this outcome :p

I don't use profanity myself, but I do yell at the computer screen when I run into a bug in my programs that I can't figure out.
 
Zenlexi said:
Have you ever tried the rubber duck method to debugging?
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I have, though not specifically with a rubber duck. It also works pretty well and it make sure that I really understand what I'm programming.
 
Hi all, a newbie here. I am currently working on a Pokemon based game using HTML, CSS and vanilla JS on the frontend and Node.js on the backend. For the database , I am using the pokéapi - The Pokemon RESTful API API , but I have reached a dead end regarding the sprites of individual pokemon. If anyone has used the api before, can somebody tell me how to access and display the sprites, or suggest any better api or resource? @Harryghost suggested me to come here. I can also give you a hosted link of the website if you are interested and wanna contribute....
 
Hi there @Kristency I actually used this API my self a bit ago in a C# program.

Code: 
PokeAPI.Pokemon p = await DataFetcher.GetApiObject<PokeAPI.Pokemon>(ID /*f.e. 448 for lucario*/);
// p.Sprites.FrontMale would be a URL to the FrontMale sprite

The returning URL would be the following:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/448.png

which is:
448.png


and you can exchange the ID with any Pokemon to get the right sprite you need.
Not sure how the Node.js version of the API works, but you should be able to pull something similar off in the coding.
Worst case, you just manually request from that URL exchanging the national dex ID of the Pokemon.

Let me know if it works ^^;
 
@SoaringDylan , sorry for the late response. Thanks for helping me. I have a bit of a success with your method, but a new problem arises. See, I have categorised the pokemon according to their types ....
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Now API response JSON for "type" query is
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So, if I want the sprites for each pokemon , I have to go to "url"
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But I don't know how to do this in code , so currently Ground Type looks like
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because I don't have any way to find the pokeID with the help of a name.
 
Good morning @Kristency do you perhaps have a github where you post your code on so I could check the whole thing my self and have a look? :)
 
Wow. This thread has been quiet. I think I should at least try to revive it.

So after my technical fellowship and months of job searching, I finally got a job that is related to programming a few months ago. I have been mainly working on the tech stack that I learned at my time from my technical fellowship, which is React and a fair amount of Redux here and there. I'm mostly a front-end developer though I tinker a bit of backend here and there

The company I am working at is Walmart. Yes, that Walmart. I have mainly been working on enhancements on the Walmart Mexico website and it is quite amazing (and mindblowing) to see that the features that I take most ownership for be live. Honestly, I never thought I would build features that will be used by many people, let alone this early in my career.

Building something by millions on a daily basis is totally different than building side projects. I have a very patient team (Okay, one senior engineer :p) though that has been very understanding with me and they have taught me so much about programming during my a few months more than I have over the past years. Hopefully, I will get to be in a position where I can guide someone who is like me right now in the future.
 
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