Kurt Pessa

Kurt Pessa

West Palm Beach
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Skills & Experience

  • Job Title

    IT Pharmacist / Software Developer

211 Achievements

  • Loops and Final Touches
  • Encapsulation with Properties
  • Encapsulation and Arrays
  • Inheritance
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • If Statements
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Methods
  • Introducing CRUD Applications
  • Sequence Iterations
  • Packing and Unpacking
  • Getting Info In and Out of Functions
  • Introduction to Functions
  • Getting to Know Tuples
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • The Lambda Lambada
  • Functional Workhorses
  • Functional Rules
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • C# Syntax
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • CSS Media Queries
  • CSS Layout Techniques
  • Box Model Concepts
  • The CSS Box Model
  • When To Use What Type of Chart
  • Introduction To Data Visualization
  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Stateful Components
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Understand Data Relationships
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Adding the Game Logic
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Making the Game Interactive
  • Rendering the Game
  •  Building Constructor Methods and Generating Objects
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Introducing 'Four in a Row'
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Arrow Functions
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD
  • How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq
  • How to Make Wireframes on Paper
  • What is Wireframing?
  • The Math Object
  • Working with Numbers
  • Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Searching Names
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Performing CRUD Operations
  • Defining Models
  • Getting Started with Sequelize
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Exploring Async/Await
  • Understanding Promises
  • Asynchronous JavaScript with Callbacks
  • What is Asynchronous Programming?
  • Refactoring and Modularizing a REST API
  • Create, Read, Update, Delete
  • Managing Data and Asynchronous Code
  • Getting to Know REST APIs
  • Asynchronous Code in Express
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Loop Through Objects
  • Working With Strings
  • Pass Information Into Functions
  • Create Reusable Code with Functions
  • Multidimensional Arrays
  • Loop Through Arrays
  • Store Multiple Values in an Array
  • Working with 'for' Loops
  • Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Object Basics
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • What a Beautiful Vue!
  • Introducing Vue
  • Flask Templates
  • Welcome to Flask
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Meet Lists
  • Using Lists
  • Build an Application
  • Meet Python
  • Types and Branching
  • Functions and Looping
  • All Together Now
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • Reformatting User Input
  • Validating a Form with Regular Expressions
  • Regular Expressions
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • JavaScript Objects
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Sinatra Finishing Touches
  • Updating Data in Sinatra
  • Adding New Data in Sinatra
  • Sinatra ERB Templates
  • Creating New Sinatra Apps
  • Input and Output
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Ruby Conditionals
  • Ruby Numeric Types
  • Ruby Objects
  • Ruby Strings and Escape Sequences
  • Ruby Syntax
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • First Commits
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • The Browser Environment
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Newbie