What is a Widget? A widget is a building block for your user interface. Using widgets is like combining Legos. A widget is a blueprint for displaying your app state. Unboxing Card2 Widget Trees Conceptually, we’re creating UIs by nesting widgets in other widgets however IN might be the wrong way to conceptualize it, containers of hierarchy might…
Flutter Apprentice – Basic Widgets
I’m going to try to structure this more as an explainer reference for myself than as an outline of the chapter since what this chapters appears to do is show us how to use basic widgets I have to use flutter run –ignore-deprecation to debug in visual studo code. so I will probably switch to…
ACG Labs: Challenge Mode – AWS – Getting Started With Cloud Formation
Great lab. Good intro to could formation and how provisioning resources with it work. But to be honest I will probably stick with terraform for infrastructure as Code and learn Cloud Formation as clients request it.
Dart Apprentice – Asynchronous Programming
Concurrency in Dart WHAT DART IS SINGLE THREADED!? MY IGNORANT SELF IS ENRAGED. Parallelism vs. concurrency Parallelism is when multiple tasks run at the same time on multiple processors or CPU cores. Concurrency, on the other hand, is when multiple tasks take turns running on a single CPU core. A Problem with Parallelism The long story short of…
Dart Apprentice – Advanced Classes
Well hello again, how are you? Are you eating enough? Do you need to do some laundry? We’re almost at the end of Dart Apprentice! Honestly, not bad progress i think. For someone reason I feel like this has been dragging on forver but when I look back at the first post in this series…
Dart Apprentice – Collections
List Whenever you have a very large collection of objects of a single type that have an ordering associated with them, you’ll likely want to use a list as the data structure for ordering the objects. Lists in Dart are similar to arrays in other languages. Lists contain elements Basic list Operations Creating a List You can…
Dart Apprentice – Types & Operators
So uh…. I did this chapter, but I have no notes on it. O WEHL It’s stuff I NO WHEL. will I need the reference only time WILL TEHL.
Dart Apprentice – Nullability
Null Overview Null Sound Safety – removing null from results and only putting it back if you ask dart to do so. What null means It means something has no value and is preferrable to coming up with your own conventions for “nothing” since it’s already built into dart and everyone understands what it means….
Dart Apprentice – Classes
Observations: 4 more to go; I’m so ready to dive into async I can almost type it. You always think these chapters aren’t bad in terms of length but then you outline them and die a little inside. I am beyond ready to be done with this book emotionally and am ready to move on…
Dart Apprentice – Functions
Skimming through the chapter before I started it, I can tell this is going to be an EXCELLENT chapter. One observation is that I can SEE the chapter not only giving me the knowledge to work with the tool (Dart in this case) but also how I can use that tool well and most effectively….