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Frontend Development |
Stay cool and learn JavaScript |
Help a lion stay cool through a hot summer with this animated CodePen. You may even get inspired to investigate the JavaScript that made it happen. | |
Design |
Designing for (and with) color blindness |
Ideally designs should be easily readable for the 1 in 10 people who are colorblind. Learn how to make sure your app or website is colorblind accessible. | |
Backend Development |
Terminal games with Python |
For a fun way to learn Python, check out these one-liner games. Arun Ravindran wrote these mini terminal games using less than 140 characters in Python. | |
Data science |
Google's AI dreams in paintings |
Google engineers who work on image recognition came across an interesting surprise: neural networks that were trained to identify different kinds of images can also generate images. The outcomes are fascinating and beautiful. | |
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HQ Spotlight: Taylor Crane |
Last week Thinkful student Taylor Crane completed ourFrontend Web Development course and along with it his capstone project: Hyperlax. It uses Instagram's API and displays a real-time feed of the latest #hyperlapse videos. His project made it to the top of Hackernews! |
Our favorite resources this week |
Best of: Podcasts | Build your first website | Github Pull Request |
The most helpful Podcasts for aspiring programmers | Learn HTML and CSS fundamentals as you create a website of your own | Learn how to submit your first pull request on GitHub. |