Programming By Stealth

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PBS 77 of X — More Callbacks & More AJAX May 04, 2019

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Bart Busschots starts this week's episode with a great refresher on what a callback actually is (because I have remained mystified by the term). He starts with simple examples and then shows us how we've been using callbacks all along and just didn't realize it. Then he'll walk through the challenge solution and the extra credit. He shows us how there's two paths to "callback hell", one through nested AJAX calls in parallel, and one with them in series (which sounds worse than it actually is. The challenge for next week is super open-ended which terrifies me but I'm sure it will be fun.

PBS 76 of X - AJAX with jQuery Apr 22, 2019

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In this week's episode, we have another in our series Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots. We'll spend the majority of our time talking about Bart's solution to last week's challenge. It's a great refresher on the methods he's taught us in the past, all rolled together with our newfound skills with Mustaches and templating. Then we'll get a start on using AJAX with jQuery and what sounds to me like a relatively easy challenge … except for that extra credit bit.

Bart's extensive tutorial shownotes (and I really mean extensive this time) can be found at bartbusschots.ie/...

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PBS 75 of X - AJAX Intro Apr 07, 2019

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In this episode of Programming By Stealth we get the foundation to start learning about AJAX. Bart gives us an overview of HTTP that is really interesting. I learned so much that I didn't know about what you can see in a URL. I know this sounds super nerdy but I loved learning about query parameters and HTTP methods and even HTTP request headers and cookies.

PBS 74 of X - More Mustaches Mar 24, 2019

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In this week's Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us the last two concepts in Mustache, one of which is a real head bender and for me at least, the second was almost as hard. The first is how you can add an optional third argument to a Mustache view which is actually a function within a function. It's a very meta concept. The second is the use of Mustache Partials which are templates within templates. I expect you'll follow along faster than I did but I _think_ I got there in the end!

You can find Bart's shownotes for this installment at [www.bartbusschots.ie/...](https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2019/03/24/pbs-74-of-x-more-mustaches/)

PBS 73 of X - Mustache Templates Mar 10, 2019

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In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us about Mustache Templates. Mustache Templates are a library that allow you to input any string and output a string. Unlike the ```template``` tag for HTML5, Mustaches are not restricted to HTML snippets. Mustache isn't the only game in town but it's Bart's favorite. I found this lesson fairly confusing along the way but when I got to the very end I think I understood it all! There was a key point in his instruction when he said to think of this as being like Mail Merge where you have a form letter and then a separate file that has the info that gets plugged into the form letter. Once he said that it became much more clear to me. Hope that little hint helps you too!

PBS 72 - HTML5 Templates Feb 23, 2019

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Last time Bart teased us that we were going to learn about the template library called Mustache, but he realized that he needed to teach us about vanilla HTML 5 Templates first. He starts by showing the problem to be solved: how messy and error-prone it is to create HTML elements using jQuery. Then he shows us how templates allow you to create multiple elements via cloning of the templates. The syntax is quite annoying, but I think once we get used to it, it will be pretty easy and efficient to use.

PBS 71 of X - Bootstrap Spinners Feb 10, 2019

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In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots spends most of the time walking us carefully through each of the methods he used to solve the challenge from last time. He does a great job of reminding us of things we've learned, in some cases more than a year ago, and showing how they were applied for this particular problem. I'm quite proud of one little thing I discovered that Bart didn't know had been introduced in HTML 5. After he's done walking through the challenge, he introduces Bootstrap Spinners. Spinners are a visual indicator to the user that some operation is going on that will take some time and let them know that things aren't just broken.

PBS 70 - Bootstrap Modals & Toasts Jan 28, 2019

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In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots is back with another installment of Programming By Stealth. We'll shift gears a bit away from web pages to web apps as we explore the usage and code behind Bootstrap Modals and Toasts. It's a combination of HTML, Bootstrap for styling and JavaScript for actions so it flexes all of our programming muscles.

We wanted to give a special shoutout to Caleb Fong, aka @GeekoSupremo for posting a link in the Podfeet slack to a fabulous cheat sheet for a ton of programming APIs. It's got JavaScript, Regular Expressions, Flexboxes, and lots of other things we've haven't yet learned. You can find the cheat sheet at freeCodeCamp at medium.freecodecamp.org.

And as always you can find Bart's tutorial show notes at [www.bartbusschots.ie/...](https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2019/01/27/pbs-70-of-x-bootstrap-modals-toasts/)

PBS 2 of X - Introducing HTML Oct 24, 2015

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Bart Busschots is back with episode 2 of his Programming By Stealth series. He’ll take us on our first baby step towards programming by explaining how the Hyper-Text Markup Language works, better known to us all as HTML. HTML is not a true programming language, it is instead a simpler beast known as a markup language – it adds context to text.

Bart’s companion tutorial can be found on his website at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/23/programming-by-stealth-2-of-x-basic-html.

PBS 1 of X - Introduction Mar 18, 2015

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In this inaugural episode of Programming By Stealth, computer scientist and linux system admin Bart Busschots explains what his approach is going to be on teaching us to program. He plans to emphasize methods and concepts while teaching us specific languages along the way. As he says, "The tool you happen to use most today is unlikely to be the one you use most a decade from now." Bart has over 20 years of programming in X86 Assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, BASH, Lisp, Maple, Matlab, and more. We don't know how long this series will go, hence the "of X" in the title.

The written tutorial that accompanies Bart’s Programming By Stealth – 1 of X can be found at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/09/programming-by-stealth-1-of-x-introduction/.

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