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Jan 27, 2021

What is Bitcoin?

To simply put it, Bitcoin is a new form of money invented in January, 2009. Who created it? That we don’t know, but the creator operates under a pseudonymous identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. We don’t know if Satoshi is him/her or a team of individuals. What purpose does Bitcoin solve? It was created in January 2009, just after…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Jun 18, 2018

User Study: Uber App

For those of you who don’t know what Uber is, It is a peer-to-peer ridesharing and taxi cab company. With over 100 million downloads on Play Store, Uber is one of the most loved apps. They have revolutionised the way we used to book our cabs. But, Uber is not…

Uber

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Uber

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Jun 17, 2018

Why Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is a cool thing?

If you are into Open Source Development, you may have heard about the recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. This acquisition was followed by a series of opinions, most of which focused on “how bad it is”. Here are some of them —

Microsoft

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Microsoft

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Jun 12, 2018

A New Way to Evaluate NBA Player’s Decision Making

I have recently read a fascinating research paper on Predicting Points and Valuing Decisions in Real Time with NBA Optical Tracking Data. This blog presents an overview of it. Let’s get started! Introduction The result of a basketball game is an ensemble of a lot of decisions. …

NBA

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A New Way to Evaluate NBA Player’s Decision Making

NBA

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Published in Learning React JS

·Jan 1, 2018

What is React?

React, in one line, is “a JavaScript library for building user interfaces”. Characteristics of React 1. Declarative It means that you just have to tell what you want to do and not how you want to do it. In other words, you only declare what the end goal is, but not the intermediary steps to reach…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Published in The School Of JS

·Nov 26, 2017

ES6 Features | Fat-Arrow Functions

Up until now, we have covered the Introduction to ECMAScript. Now it’s time to learn about the new features that came up with ES6. Let’s start with Fat-Arrow Functions… ES6 comes up with a new syntax for defining functions, popularly known as Fat-Arrow Functions. Let’s see it with an example:

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Published in The School Of JS

·Nov 18, 2017

ES6 Features | The Introduction

Before jumping into discussing the features of ES6, let us first know “What ECMAScript is?” Note: This is Part-1 of the series on ES6 Features. What is ES (ECMAScript)? ECMAScript is a standard. JavaScript is a well-known implementation of the ECMAScript standard. ECMAScript vs JavaScript:

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Published in The School Of JS

·Nov 13, 2017

DOM Manipulation | Part-2

This is Part-2 of the series on DOM Manipulation. Click here to read the first part (highly recommended). Until now, we have covered all the theoretical aspects related to DOM. Now is the time to get started with the actual implementation of it. The concept of DOM Manipulation can be…

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Published in The School Of JS

·Nov 12, 2017

DOM Manipulation | Part-1

Let’s start this one by learning “What actually DOM is?” What is the DOM? In simple words, DOM is the thing that gets generated after your browser parses the HTML that it gets. That thing is a tree-like hierarchical structure of nodes (HTML elements). The process is somewhat like this:

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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