Nick Chapsas's Video: https://youtu.be/_ougvb8mT7k

This may sound crazy but I really don't use the else keyword in my programming anymore. When I do end up using else it usually leads to worse code than if I purposely avoided it. In this video I explain exactly why that is.


📚 Materials/References:

Optional Chaining Video: https://youtu.be/v2tJ3nzXh8I?t=379
Optional Chaining Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-03/javascript-optional-chaining
Guard Clause Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-01/guard-clauses


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My Blog: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com
My Courses: https://courses.webdevsimplified.com
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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Guard Clauses
04:03 - Single Return Is Bad
05:43 - Extract Functions


#StopUsingElse #WDS #JavaScript

Why I Don't Use Else When Programming

A historical argument for creating a stable instruction set architecture (ISA) for entire system-on-a-chip (SoC) packages.

Please note that although it's never mentioned in the audio there was a typo in the slide deck that makes the situation even more ludicrous when comparing 1990's machine to 2015's: the hard drive line erroneously said "gig" for the 1990's machine.  It should have said "mb".  The specs were the A3000, which never had any hard drives even close to 1 gig, let alone 50 gigs!

The Thirty Million Line Problem

Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-two

This was a presentation I gave to the University of Twente in early 2021. It's a case study of how simple, straightforward coding can turn several thousand lines of code and 10's of seconds of runtime into a few dozen lines of code and a sub-second runtime. It attempts to provide concrete examples of why software is often an order of magnitude (or more) slower than it should be.

Simple Code, High Performance

Writing code is easy. Writing clean code, though, is much harder. In this video I take a look at two different code examples from a beginner, intermediate, and advanced level. The goal of this is to show you how a senior developer will think while programming and how they will structure their code to be as clean and well-written as possible.


📚 Materials/References:

Template Literals Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-03/tagged-template-literals
Guard Clause Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-01/guard-clauses
Destructoring Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/NIq3qLaHCIs
Reduce Function Tutorial: https://youtu.be/R8rmfD9Y5-c?t=387
GitHub Code: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified/Noob-Vs-Pro-Code


🧠 Concepts Covered:

- How senior developers think
- Using guard clauses to clean up code
- The differences between senior and junior developers
- What to think about when programming


🌎 Find Me Here:

My Blog: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com
My Courses: https://courses.webdevsimplified.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WebDevSimplified
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified
Discord: https://discord.gg/7StTjnR
GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified
CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified


#NoobVsPro #WDS #CleanCode

Junior Vs Senior Code - How To Write Better Code

This is the approach I would take if I were to start over from scratch and learn to become a web developer. I go over the resources and technologies I would use. ​
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How to Become a Web Developer in 2020

My first talk on designing a programming language for games.
Given September 17, 2014.

An implementation is being built and there have been many demos. See the full playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1kgKJXD3PkyxO.

Ideas about a new programming language for games.

Commentary on the closing keynote from RustConf 2018, which you can view here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M

Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.

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