Announcing Coding Spring 2022 which is a number of programming activities for my current and past students during the Spring semester. Initial plan: Weekly sessions: focusing on problem solving (e.g. LeetCode katas, past Google HashCode problems, etc) and discussing ideas and technologies on Computer Science. Projects: small scale, real world…

“Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.” — Zeno of Citium Coding Society, a student club with students from NYC, UNYP, and UNYT, has been around for a long time but it was the COVID era that helped it to grow and become more focused…

We had two kickstart meetings today and discussed about the topics to cover and projects to work on. So, this is the initial plan: JavaScript We are going to build a number of small projects in June. Starting with: Hangman: We built this last year, now we can build it better…

About Programming activities for my students (current and old). Summer is a great chance to relax and recover from a stressful year - and academic year 2020–21 was really hard. Yet is is also a good opportunity to enjoy programming activities just for fun, without the fear of failure, and improve…

Everything changes and nothing stands still. (Heraclitus) So, want to learn and practice interesting technologies? Join Coding Society, the computer programming club of New York College for students and alumni. We focus on: Frameworks (React, Laravel, Django, SpringBoot, ASP.NET Core MVC) IoT and Automation (with Arduino and Raspberry Pi) Data…

and why you should join — Coding Society is a students’ club where participants take part in extra-curricular coding activities. It is open to New York College students as well as alumni. Our main goal is to inspire and motivate students with several programming activities described below in order to gain hands-on experiences and also to…

Notes and recommendations for my students, inspired by “The Software Craftsman”, a wonderful book by Sandro Mancuso. During advising sessions with students I found that many young people expect that their degree and GPA will open some door, good or bad, and then they will start their career based on…

MacOS comes with PHP preinstalled. If you use MAMP as a local LAMP stack you probably want to run MAMP’s PHP version instead of the default one. There are many ways to do that but I prefer the following approach of setting the PATH instead of affecting preinstalled files. Edit the ~/.bash_profile file (or create if does not exist) Add this line (modify php version folder according to your preferences):

By default Laravel Auth will redirect to /home after successful authentication. However, I wanted to create a custom login page and redirect to different URLs depending on the user role. In my case user role is defined as an extra varchar column in the users table. The custom login form…