Tulsa BoomTown is a project to show off the growing tech ecosystem in Tulsa Oklahoma and to highlight some of the great things about our city. …

Recursion can be one of those topics that is either loved or hated. On the love side, recursion can save a ton of time and computational power. On the hate side, it is often hard to wrap your head around just how to solve a problem with recursion until it…

How do we get from URL to the content we want to see? You type twitter.com in your browser and within a second or two the page loads and boom you’re off exploring the latest trending hashtags and quick blurbs from those you follow. This is a very normal everyday…

What do you think of when you think of the internet? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Amazon? Or maybe more mobile-oriented with TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat? Perhaps even a level deeper, all the communications equipment and data-centers/servers that go into serving our shopping and social media. While major sites and the…

Machine Learning, deep neural networks, general artificial intelligence, a series of tubes!!! Oh buzz words, how casually you get thrown around in the valley and beyond. It seems that every system, product, or app is trying to integrate some form of machine learning or artificial intelligence into their tech, or…

The quest for coding knowledge continues and my cohort and I have recently entered a new realm, Object Oriented Programming. Over the last 3 months, I’ve been solely focused on learning C and functional programming, but now the time has come for Python and the idea that everything is an…

This is another entry into my work on C programming and working with the terminal over an IDE. Check out the rest of my articles here: https://medium.com/@TMcMac A Quick Recap… So what are libraries? Libraries are a programming method to keep you from having to reinvent the wheel every time you create a…

Here we go again, leaving the safety of the GUI and the reassuring click of the mouse (or more likely silent tap of the trackpad) for the deep dark unknown of the terminal. Now if you are old enough to have booted programs from DOS you may feel a bit…

There is a saying in programming, “Keep your work, DRY.” While we all know that computers and liquids are not a good mix, this type of dry stands for ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself.’ It may seem like a simple enough saying, but when you are building large projects or even just…