Heather Huynh

September 27, 2019

The other day I was taking a coding challenge and ran into a problem where I needed to sort along the diagonals of a matrix in ascending order. Upon looking around online after the challenge, I saw there weren’t many solutions for approaching the problem, so this is my take on a possible solution.

January 18, 2017

Heroku is a really great way to host a simple application on the web for free. It can easily scale if needed by shifting to a paid plan if you start getting more traffic/need more resources, but also works well if you want to do something small like Is It a Cat?. Something that was hard for me when I first started using Heroku was figuring out how to deploy.

November 29, 2016

Tips for using the getsysinfo call in MINIX

November 13, 2016

Creating a service in MINIX can be a hard and arduous process, especially with all the updates to the MINIX source code over time. This tutorial will guide you through creating a new service in MINIX, including implementing system calls to go with it.

April 10, 2016

When I was first learning to create web applications, the world was a very large place. There are so many technologies out there that it can be hard to select just one. At the time, I knew little about web development; my server had an Apache server set up and the only way I had heard of using Apache before was with PHP. However, when working on an API challenge with a friend, whose specialty was Python, we had to find some way to use Python on the web which lead us to the discovery of two popular Python frameworks: Django and Flask. We ended up going with Flask.

April 08, 2016

Flask is my go-to framework for any Python web application that I want to built. This is due to its relative ease of setup as well as its file structure being easy to navigate. Once Flask has been set up, it is simple to create a new Flask app and get started.