Introduction The human brain is basically an organic computer inside our heads. Completely unique and mysterious, the brain is the hardware that processes both external and internal information, stores it, and later recalls the information in order to utilize it for decision-making and future planning. It is the motherboard that controls…

How to Create a New Programming Language What does building a programming language require? The concept of writing a brand new programming language is a foreign one to most programmers. There isn’t a high demand for new languages, so programmers are, for the most part, taught and trained in languages which already exist; there is little need to learn how to create a new…

Introduction There is some general misunderstanding in regards to the differences between mobile applications and web applications — which I will refer to from here on as ‘app’ and ‘web app’. They are even sometimes mistakenly thought of as being one and the same, when in fact, they are vastly different…

What is Go? The game of ‘Go’ is believed to be the oldest, continuously played board game in the world. It was invented in China, over 2,500 years ago, and is still wildly popular to this day. A survey taken in 2016 found there to be around 20 million Go players worldwide, though…

What is CAPTCHA? The term CAPTCHA is actually a contrived acronym, meaning it was chosen deliberately because it is apt for what it is naming. CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing [test to tell] Computers [and] Humans Apart. The term was first used by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper…

All about the architecture of modern web applications The internet has become quite the force in the modern age. While this holds true in more ways than one, its bread and butter is undoubtably the website. So easy it is to take for granted the dynamism of the sites we…

Accessing a website, any website, is something that most people take for granted, specifically in terms of all the necessary procedures that happen behind the scenes. These procedures make it possible to surf the web quickly and securely. Multiple entities, including your own machine, are utilized to complete this process…

All About Binary Search Trees in Javascript Structural Integrity Programming and data storage go hand-in-hand. There are many different schools of thought in regards to which data structures are considered to be best. ‘Best’, in this context, usually relates to the time complexity of the structure, or how long it will take the interpreter to either manipulate or locate…

HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTIONS — When a function involves a separate function during its execution, it is known as a higher-order function. This involvement happens in one of two ways: either the original function takes another function as an argument, or it returns another function as its result. This separate function being passed to, or…