James Vlok

James Vlok

Member Since October 18, 2017
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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    dotModus

  • Job Title

    Senior Python Developer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

212 Achievements

  • Template Tags and Filters
  • Final Details
  • Django Templates
  • Regular Expressions
  • Timezones
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • The Lambda Lambada
  • Functional Workhorses
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • Fundamentals of Docker
  • Docker Use Cases
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Meet pandas
  • Where and How Big Data Is Used
  • What is Big Data
  • Functional Rules
  • Buggy Logs
  • First Commits
  • Flask Templates
  • Welcome to Flask
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • Model Administration
  • What a View
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Cleaner Code
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Dice Roller
  • Python: Advanced Objects
  • Python: Inheritance
  • Python: Instant Objects
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Meet Lists
  • Using Lists
  • Build an Application
  • Meet Python
  • Types and Branching
  • Functions and Looping
  • All Together Now
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Java Inheritance
  • Introducing IntelliJ and Unpacking Packages
  • Searching Names
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Recursion and Space Complexity
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Functional Programming with Scala
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Browser Persistent Data with PHP
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • What is Authentication
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Creating and Modifying Database Tables
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Project Setup
  • Understanding Classes
  • Why Object-Oriented Programming?
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Why Protect Your Web Apps
  • Deleting and Updating Data
  • Fetching Data Using Fetch Requests
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Review Functional Programming Fundamentals
  • Reduction and Aggregation
  • Meet Streams
  • Java's Functional Toolset
  • What to Test
  • How To Test
  • Why Test
  • Advanced Tooling
  • IDE Exploration
  • How it Works
  • Efficiency!
  • Exploring the Java Collections Framework
  • Organizing Data
  • Getting There
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Gotchas and Wins
  • Iteration
  • Creation
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Persisting Data with Hibernate
  • Getting Started with Hibernate
  • Data Persistence & ORMs
  • Writing Your Own Java Annotation
  • Using Java's Built-In Annotations
  • Telling the Story
  • Designing for Your User’s "To-be"
  • Understanding your User’s “As-is” Scenario
  • Becoming Acquainted with Your User
  • Becoming a Design Thinker
  • Event Planning
  • Build a Pomodoro App
  • Design a Better App
  • Graphical User Interfaces
  • Authorization with Third Party Libraries
  • Inserting and Saving Data Using a Context
  • Understanding the Core Data Stack
  • Downloading Album Artwork
  • Requesting Real Data
  • Enhancing the iTunes Endpoint
  • URLs and Parameter Encoding
  • Building the User Interface
  • Modeling iTunes Search Results
  • Decoupling the Data Source
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • Sorting Contacts Into Sections
  • Static Table Views for Detail Interfaces
  • Displaying Contact Data
  • A High Level Overview
  • Dark Sky API Client
  • Downloading JSON Data Asynchronously
  • Fetching Data From the Web
  • Modeling Forecast Data
  • Error Handling and Memory Management
  • Building Standard Library Functions
  • Closure Expressions
  • First Class Functions
  • Generics and Protocols
  • Generic Types
  • Generic Functions, Parameters and Constraints
  • Adding Sound Effects
  • Personalizing The Story
  • Refactoring Our Code
  • Creating the User Interface Programmatically
  • Creating a Story
  • Navigating Through An Adventure
  • Using the Delegate Pattern in iOS
  • The Delegate Pattern
  • Writing Great Swift
  • Access Control
  • Memory Management in Swift
  • Extensions and Protocols
  • Value Semantics, Type Methods and Inheritance
  • Object Initialization
  • Properties
  • Visual Format Language
  • Auto Layout in Code
  • Trait Collections
  • Inequalities, Content and Priorities
  • The Constraint Equation
  • A History Lesson
  • Displaying Additional Views
  • Using the Vending Machine
  • Loading Data From a Resource
  • Modeling an Interface
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Flexible Objects Using Protocols
  • Protocol Basics
  • Objects and Optionals
  • Introduction to Optionals
  • Introduction to Enumerations
  • Running Apps on a Device
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Structs As Data Models
  • View Controllers and Views
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Differentiating Between Objects
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes in Swift
  • Complex Data Structures
  • Adding Power to Functions
  • Functions in Swift
  • Control Flow With Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Dictionaries in Swift
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Newbie