Programming | Cool sites | Web Development

Study-Web-Development
Lots of resources at Study Web Development

Thankyou to StudyWebDevelopment.com for the 3 website suggestions:

  • Larger.io – Let’s you see what programming languages and frameworks are used on any website.
  • Typing.io – This is such a cool app to practice your coding skills and to help you code faster.
  • Caniuse.com – See what frontend web technologies will work on most of the browsers.

Autism | Emotions | Duality | Reddit (draft)

Draft:

Close up of woman's eye
This is a PNG rendered from a SVG vector file from the Open Clipart website – openclipart.org

Autism – two states – up/down – happy/sad – joyful/depressed. I used to feel that it was due to some kind of bipolar disorder. But it seems that I’m learning that autism can cause this “fault line”. So rather than have many emotional states with lots of shades between hyper and hypo there seems to be just two states – up and down. Or happy and sad. No subtle levels of emotion in between. Or so it seems anyway.

There may be a third level – neutral/level/ambient. Maybe it’s just the emotions that vary from the neutral state that are extreme or polarised.

Update: after discussing this concept with someone I need to include the idea that subtler emotional states are all there but are not seen externally. These other shades exist internally but might not be outwardly expressed. It seems with autism that the “Theory of Mind” idea causes a flipside problem – we feel that others can see our emotional and mental states; we feel exposed so we try to hide our inner selves and squish those delicate emotions.

And even that can be seen as a Theory of Mind problem – because, if you think about it, that can be seen as another failing in the ability to intuit another person’s thoughts. In short, poor understanding of another person means we think that they have a great understanding of us. What a mess!


Autism subreddits:

/r/ASD

/r/autism

/r/Autism_Awareness

War | Syria | Videos | Youtube | Playlist

After you have searched for something on Youtube you can choose different filters such as to only find playlists – instructions.

So I searched Syria Aleppo and it came up with quite a few playlists but mostly war footage by the look of it. Here I’ll just embed the playlist created by Vice magazine for films they’ve made in the region.

Also, if you want to embed a playlist you get the code exactly the same way that you get the code for a single video – just click “Share” and then you can choose which video the playlist will start from.

WARNING/DISCLAIMER: I haven’t watched this playlist yet but I have seen some of the Vice films before and the chances are there will be a lot of very graphic and disturbing content, so please be careful if you intend to watch these videos.

Update: I have watched most of this playlist and some of the content is extremely graphic and disturbing.

Autism | Pain | Article

Autism and pain
This image is a representation of how one child described the feeling he had when someone was singing near him.

I tend to find that American articles online are much longer than the typical effort you might see in the UK. I might be wrong but that’s my impression anyways..

This article is about the links between autism and pain – there is a lot of familiar stuff in here. If you or someone you know has autism then I can pretty much (almost definitely probably) guarantee you will already be familiar with a lot of the points raised in the article.

Sky at Night | Web Extra | Star Guide | Summer | Juno

This is the extra content for the Sky at Night (10th July 2016). The Perseids meteor shower will be visible from July 23rd to August 23rd 2016. The peak is the night 10/11th, 11/12th, 12/13th and 13/14th August – from 1:00am until dawn.

This week’s episode was all about Juno. The speed at periapsis is 165,00 mph!

Discussing Juno and Jupiter
Juno scientist Fran Bagnell talking to Chris Lintott about the immense speeds, intensity and danger that Juno will endure as it zooms around Jupiter.

Freecodecamp | Resources | Coding | Learning

Freecodecamp clubs
Freecodecamp clubs

Wow! Actually, my exact words were “Oh my gaad!” or something; that was what I said when I started the next section at the start of my Freecodecamp journey – HTML elements. My surprise was at the big resources page called Let’s Explore the Universe of Programming which seems to have a ton of links to loads of free programming books and even free University courses!

This blog post is being written in the time I’ve set aside for “learning to code”. The philosophy I picked up from a Youtube video that featured Freecodecamp was to aim to do 25 minutes of coding a day; and to do 3 days in a row. Then 3 weeks in a row and then 3 months in a row. This is especially if you really want to code but you are finding it hard to get started or to focus etc.

It’s the first day of my second block of  3 days and I still haven’t actually done any coding yet! But, I have installed Gitter on my smartphone and joined the chatroom for Freecodecamp (don’t forget the Facebook page and the local clubs list with links to the Cardiff and Chepstow clubs and the FCC subreddit). So, in my last few minutes I am going to look at the first proper tutorial (which looks pretty easy if you’ve done lots of HTML before).

But I will definitely be going back and looking at the free Uni courses linked via FCC. But next I have to join the forum. And check The Changelog – a podcast all about opensource.

Ooh! Almost forgot to link the Github Readme on the main page.

Fullstack Python | Flask | Resources | Tutorials

Flask Peewee
Flask

The Fullstack Python site has a page dedicated purely to Flask resources and tutorials. With links to the Mega Tutorial and many others – there seems to be an emphasis on guides that get you to make real projects.

Flask is a Python web framework – I haven’t yet tried it myself. After trying Django with the Django Girls tutorial (actually, I haven’t completed the last proper section yet – Django Forms). From what I’ve read about Flask it sounds like it is smaller and more “Pythonic”. For a definition of that word, the Secret Weblog recommends that you type import this into a Python interpreter.. I just tried it and it works.

Code Visually also recommend Full Stack Python and carlos.bueno has a long page about what it means to be a full stack programmer.

Credit: I have borrowed the Flask + Unicorn image from Charles Leifer’s Python blog who also has a post about building a Flask app in an hour (or less).