Blog #33: PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a system to interact with a SQL relational database. It runs on Linux, Mac, Windows for C, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript and more.  To use PostgreSQL, I need to install it first. Here’s how to install PostgreSQL in Windows.  Step 1: Download from the Windows x86-64 column, download the latest version.  https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads Step 2: Follow the Youtube

Blog #32: Math Quiz

The math quiz is a project our group did during college’s Web Development class, I worked together with Jamie Pham and Elvin Xu on this project. I will explain some of the codes: index.html: If the mouse is outside of the image, invoke turnMessage(), if the mouse is over the image, invoke turnPicture(). home_functions.js: Display a

Blog #31: Todo List

In the past week, me and my friend Aizhu Xue work together to create a Todo List app, one without using Mongoose and one with Mongoose. Let’s go over the one without using Mongoose first. The npm packages I use are: app.js Render the view engine to ejs. Render templates in the views folder. Serve

Blog #30: Coding Gurus Updates

9/13/2023 Updates First, I hide the thread’s last edit time and the reply’s last edit time if post time is the same as last edit time. show.ejs Add a middleware function that checks if the user is signed out. If no user is signed in, I cannot perform a certain actions such as sign in

Blog #29: Coding Gurus

Coding Gurus is an interactive forum created with Node, Express, and MongoDB. Web Page: https://mighty-tundra-24262-678dd716e9dc.herokuapp.com Source Code: https://github.com/swiftandquick/Project-3-Forum Demo: Packages Used:

Blog #28: Hangman

I created a Hangman game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For this project, I made four files: index.html and styles.css for front end layout, script.js for back end functions, and wordList.js exports an array of strings (representing words) to script.js. I also have an img folder contains 11 bmp type pictures, which represents how many

Blog #27: Using JavaScript with Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an IDE for many languages. As for now, I use it to learn JavaScript. Page 1: Install Git Bash on Windows. Page 2: Install and use Node. Page 3: Install MongoDB. Page 4: Commit and push using Git Bash. Page 5: Create a React App with Vite. Page 6: Upload app

Blog #26: Using IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ can be used to do many things. Page 1: Commit & push with GitHub. Page 2: Import and export JAR files. Page 3: Set up a JavaFX project and rename packages. Page 4: Import JAR file for JavaFX project. Page 5: Install SceneBuilder for JavaFX. Page 6: Set up JUnit. Page 7: Install SQLite.

Blog #25: Commit & Push Files from PyCharm to GitHub

I had been learning a bit of Python lately, Python is a high-level, general-purpose, and multi-paradigm programming language. PyCharm is IDE that I coded Python on. This is a step by step process of how to commit and push files from PyCharm to GitHub. Make sure the PyCharm you are using is the latest version.

Blog #24: 2nd Update Blog

For section 6 of JSP, Servlets and JDBC for Beginners: Build a Database App by Chad Darby. The following steps allow me to use JSTL tags in an Eclipse dynamic web project. Step 1: Type in following website in the address bar to start downloading. http://www.luv2code.com/download-jstl Step 2: Open Eclipse EE and create a Dynamic