Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Jun 25, 2018UnBuzzing the Buzzword: IoTThe IoT or “Internet of Things” is one of those inescapable tech buzzwords that everybody has heard of but few can explain simply. Like…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·May 9, 2018Variables, Mutability, and Pass By Value/Reference in PythonIn python, everything is an object. At least, that’s what everybody on StackOverflow says. But what does that statement actually mean? For…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Feb 11, 2018Static Libraries in CStatic libraries are indexed collections of symbols (functions, variables, etc.) that can be linked into a program during compilation…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Jan 17, 2018How set up and use README_generator for Holberton studentsI recently wrote a README_generator to streamline README creation for our assignments at Holberton, and after helping a couple of other…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Jan 17, 2018C CompilationHow does C compilation work? When you type gcc main.c into your terminal, four main steps take place.
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Jan 15, 2018Hard Links vs Symbolic (Soft) LinksThe UNIX OS allows for the creation of both hard links and symbolic links (symbolic links are also commonly called soft links). The syntax…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Jan 15, 2018How `ls *c` works in bashThe ls command is used in bash to list the contents of a directory. When used without any arguments, ls defaults to listing the contents of…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Dec 10, 2017The Deep StateEver since the election of Donald Trump, the term “deep state” is being thrown around more and more in the mainstream parlance…
Isaiah Becker-Mayer·Oct 12, 2017Why Holberton?My journey to software engineering began with an obscure yet profound question that suddenly popped into my head around three years ago…