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Take Up Code

Take Up Code: build your own computer games, apps, and robotics with podcasts and live classes•www.takeupcode.com

Take Up Code is a podcast that explains computer programming topics through fun and engaging examples that you can relate to. The guided format allows you to gain valuable understanding of topics that will reinforce your studies, allow you to train new skills that you can apply on your job, and change your thinking about what it takes to become a professional programmer. The episodes are as short as possible so you can squeeze them into your daily routine.

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Episodes

169: Your Guide To Computer Programming. Part 4 of 4.

Why should you learn how to program? What is programming? What specific steps can you take? How can you apply programming?

Feb 06, 2017•8 min

168: Your Guide To Computer Programming. Part 3 of 4.

Why should you learn how to program? What is programming? What specific steps can you take? How can you apply programming?

Jan 30, 2017•9 min

167: Your Guide To Computer Programming. Part 2 of 4.

Why should you learn how to program? What is programming? What specific steps can you take? How can you apply programming?

Jan 23, 2017•10 min

166: Your Guide To Computer Programming. Part 1 of 4.

Why should you learn how to program? What is programming? What specific steps can you take? How can you apply programming?

Jan 16, 2017•9 min

165: Sockets And Ports: The Hidden Pieces.

How does one application communicate with another application?

Jan 09, 2017•11 min

164: SCTP vs. TCP vs. UDP

You will learn more about the strengths of the SCTP, TCP, and UDP protocols by comparing them.

Jan 02, 2017•8 min

163: SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

SCTP is another protocol like TCP and UDP with aspects of both.

Dec 26, 2016•8 min

162: OSI Model: Seven Layers of Communication.

The OSI model will help you understand how computers communicate.

Dec 19, 2016•6 min

161: MAC: Media Access Control Address.

A MAC address is a physical address unique to your computer.

Dec 12, 2016•9 min

160: UDP: User Datagram Protocol.

Sometimes speed and simplicity are more important than reliability.

Dec 05, 2016•6 min

159: TCP: Transmission Control Protocol.

Knowing where to send information through IP is not enough. You have to know how to reliably send information too.

Nov 28, 2016•9 min

158: IP: Internet Protocol Addresses.

Any computer or device that wants to communicate with the Internet Protocol needs an IP address to uniquely identify the device.

Nov 21, 2016•10 min

157: DNS: Domain Name System.

Why do we need a system for managing domain names?

Nov 14, 2016•10 min

156: URLs, URNs, URCs, Data URIs, and URIs.

It is almost a tongue twister to say them all. Do you know what they all mean?

Nov 07, 2016•12 min

155: HTML vs. HTTP: How Do They Compare?

There is more than just two letters difference. In fact, you can not really compare them at all. But you can use them together.

Oct 31, 2016•8 min

154: Data: JSON JavaScript Object Notation.

Like XML, JSON is also a way to represent data that is readable by both humans and computers.

Oct 24, 2016•6 min

153: Data: XML Extensible Markup Language.

XML was designed to solve two main purposes. To allow information to be stored and transported and to allow both humans and computers to read and modify the information.

Oct 17, 2016•8 min

152: Distributed Computing: APIs Have Changed.

You might be more familiar with APIs than SOA but they had another meaning not very long ago.

Oct 10, 2016•9 min

151: The More You Learn.

As you learn more about something, a strange thing happens. It becomes obvious how much more there is to still be learned.

Oct 03, 2016•8 min

150: Distributed Computing: SOA

Service Oriented Architecture or SOA for short can mean different things. At the core, is the ability to send a message over a network to an isolated destination for a specific business purpose.

Sep 26, 2016•7 min

149: Step By Step Perfection.

Knowing where to spend your time and focus will help you finish projects without getting stuck in details.

Sep 19, 2016•10 min

148: CAP Theorem: Choose Two, Or Is It One?

Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance are three aspects of distributed computing. And a fourth not included in the theorem is Latency.

Sep 12, 2016•9 min

147: Distributed Computing: Ready? Yes. Done.

Two-phase and three-phase commits will help you design solutions that need to work across multiple computers.

Sep 05, 2016•8 min

146: Distributed Computing: It Happened When?

Computers rely on clocks. They coordinate everything. But the clocks on different computers can be slightly off from each other.

Aug 29, 2016•11 min

QA Friday 2016-Aug-26

What can you do to improve your concentration?

Aug 26, 2016•8 min

145: Distributed Computing: Four Reasons.

Dividing work between multiple computers is sometimes the best way to solve a problem.

Aug 22, 2016•11 min

QA Friday 2016-Aug-19

How do you concentrate?

Aug 19, 2016•7 min

144: Data Types: C++ nullptr Is Not Zero.

nullptr represents a null pointer and while it has a value of zero, the type is not the same.

Aug 15, 2016•8 min

QA Friday 2016-Aug-12

When should I create a new class?

Aug 12, 2016•8 min

143: Where And How To Use Whitespace.

Making code more readable sometimes means knowing where to put nothing.

Aug 08, 2016•10 min

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