Ben Reynolds

Ben Reynolds

Chicago, IL

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  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • Persuasive Patterns
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Reduction and Aggregation
  • Meet Streams
  • Java's Functional Toolset
  • UI Patterns
  • Designing with Patterns
  • The Design Solution
  • The Design Problem
  • Design Principles
  • JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Developer Roles
  • JavaScript Outside of the Browser
  • Introducing ASP.NET Identity
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • First Commits
  • Day 3: Getting Creative
  • Day 2: Advanced Selecting
  • Day 1: Joining Tables
  • Orientation: Selecting Data
  • What is Product Design?
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Vulnerabilities: Configuration, Components, and Logging
  • Vulnerabilities: Authentication, Access, and Sensitive Data
  • Vulnerabilities:  Injection, XSS, CSRF
  • Security: Solutions
  • Security: Concerns
  • Security in Practice
  • Common Attacks and Defenses
  • Hello Internet!
  • Completing Our Service
  • Meet Selenium
  • Building Our Service
  • Planning Our Service
  • Digging Deeper Into Migrations
  • Getting Started with Using Migrations
  • Completing the Project
  • Data Access Design Patterns
  • Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC
  • Project Setup
  • CRUD Operations
  • LINQ Queries
  • Extending Our Entity Data Model
  • Entity Framework and Databases
  • Introducing Entity Framework
  • Python: Advanced Objects
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Gotchas and Wins
  • Iteration
  • Creation
  • Making Changes with Mutations
  • Fetching Data with Queries
  • Getting Started with GraphQL
  • The OWASP Top 10 Explained
  • Maintaining Secure Web Apps
  • Protecting Data and Keeping Attackers Out
  • Why Protect Your Web Apps
  • Python: Inheritance
  • Python: Instant Objects
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Getting Started with Xamarin
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Diving into Web Development
  • What to Test
  • How To Test
  • Why Test
  • Review
  • Interfaces
  • Inheritance
  • Adding New Behavior
  • Thinking in Components
  • Organizing Code into Methods
  • Reflections
  • Global Illumination
  • Shadows
  • Lighting Basics
  • Camera Switching
  • Camera Movement
  • Image Effects
  • Camera Basics
  • Scripting Materials
  • Additional Textures in the Standard Shader
  • Textures in the Standard Shader
  • Understanding Materials
  • Exporting Models Into Unity
  • Scene File Organization and Clean-up
  • Adding Surface Detail to a Model
  • Optimizing the Model
  • Box Modeling Techniques
  • Working with Primitives
  • Getting Started in Maya LT
  • Key Concepts in Unity
  • Debugging Games
  • Lights, Audio, and Animation
  • Assets and Game Objects
  • The 3D Views
  • Build and Share a Unity Game
  • Game Audio
  • Score, Enemies, and Game State
  • Pickups
  • Player Input and Cameras
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • A Route to a Delete Action
  • Routes to Update Actions
  • Routes for Create Actions
  • A Route to a Read Action
  • Rails Resource Index
  • Adding a Model Attribute
  • Using the Rails Console
  • Handling Rails Requests
  • Creating Rails Apps
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Sinatra Finishing Touches
  • Updating Data in Sinatra
  • Adding New Data in Sinatra
  • Sinatra ERB Templates
  • Creating New Sinatra Apps
  • Gems In Depth
  • Ruby Gems
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 2
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 1
  • Ruby Core
  • Store Inventory Using Modules
  • Include and Extend
  • Ruby Core Modules
  • Ruby Module Basics
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Input and Output
  • Search
  • Ruby Class Design
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Build a Simple Todo List Program
  • Ruby Booleans
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Build a Simple Contact List
  • Ruby Iteration
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • The Rest of the Story
  • Finishing the User Interface
  • The Model-View-Presenter Pattern
  • Intents and Multiple Activities
  • Tuning the User Interface
  • User Input in Android
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Improving Our Code
  • Basic Android Programming
  • Creating the Screen Layout
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Event Planning
  • Build a Pomodoro App
  • Design a Better App
  • Graphical User Interfaces
  • Advanced Tooling
  • IDE Exploration
  • How it Works
  • Efficiency!
  • Exploring the Java Collections Framework
  • Organizing Data
  • Getting There
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Python For Beginners
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • What To Test
  • Test Driven Development
  • Writing Unit Tests
  • Unit Testing
  • Data Retreiver
  • Serialized!
  • Data Parser
  • Data Reader
  • Finishing Our CRUD Web App
  • Adding Form Validation
  • Improving Our Form
  • Creating a Basic Form
  • Introducing CRUD Applications
  • Query Builder
  • Query Operators
  • Functional!
  • Now You're Querying!
  • Adding a List Page
  • Modeling and Presenting Data
  • Sets and Dictionaries
  • Lists
  • Arrays
  • Abstraction
  • System.Object
  • Polymorphism
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Views
  • Controllers
  • Project Setup
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Loops and Final Touches
  • Encapsulation with Properties
  • Encapsulation and Arrays
  • Inheritance
  • Perfect
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • What is the MailChimp API
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Newbie