Month: July 2013

Coursera – something new

Posted on by Jason Valdez

I just discovered Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/courses

I’ve been aware of the progression toward low-cost or no-cost online education, but I had felt like I hadn’t the time to really examine it.

Recently, I had been looking for avenues to grow my skillsets. I decided to give Coursera a try. I’m just putting my toe into the water, though. I don’t feel ready to commit to a lot because I’m not sure how it will work with time constraints. I also have personal projects that I’ve been wanting to get off the ground for a while.

Cryptography seems to be a good starting point.

LINQ Practice project on GitHub

Posted on by Jason Valdez

Note: as of 3/2019 this has been retired

While doing project work for business or pleasure. I often find myself in a position where I need to test out a thought or experiment with some technology. Usually, I simply spin-up a throwaway project.

Linq is one of those technologies that I have used extensively, but in a limited scope. It has been over a year since I had to perform a join operation in Linq, which left me doing some research that reminded me that Linq is rather elaborate and extensive.

To fill out the back story here, I was coding a service recently and implemented a loop to accomplish what could have been done with a Linq join. The reason it had not occurred to me was because I had forgotten the specific join syntax.

For that reason, I put up a project on GitHub for Linq experiments.

https://github.com/JasonDV/LinqPractice (I took this link down)

I plan to expand the project as needed.