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Trying to build an app with Claude Day 2

danielarmbruster0314 — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:36:28 +0000

This is an update to my progress on creating a flash card app with Claude here is an update on the progress made today. I added the swipe functionality, progress bar, and a quiz component. This took several prompt iterations with Claude and I def had to critique some of its implementations because it would often implement class or packages to generated code but it wasn't to difficult to correct.

Trying to build an app with Claude

danielarmbruster0314 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:45:52 +0000

Hi All,
This is a bit of a personal quest. I am a developer who has been trying to learn Japanese and there are several services that provided help such as Duolingo, Memrise, LingoDeer, etc. However I personally love the look and feel of Duolingo, though its not quite my style of study. The creator of Duolingo used to have another app more my speed called tiny card. This was a flash card system that behaved very similar to Duolingo though you could build your own decks for study. I intend to recreate this app through prompting with Claude. Here is the progress post for a sample of the flash card component it built in react(will be converting to react native).

.Net to .Net Core Schema data set transfer

danielarmbruster0314 — Mon, 15 May 2023 00:56:00 +0000

So recently I ran into a scenario that I felt did not have much resources. I wanted to share so that any dev who faces a similar problem could have some point of reference.

The problem: I had a dataset in a .Net C# application that I wanted to be sent through an api call to a .Net Core application that was to act as a separate service handler but had the data required to service the request.

The obstacle is that in .Net data sets with DB.Null values are allowed for int, bool, DateTime, and decimal(converted into null values when read). However, in .Net Core it is of stricter typing so just copying the data set from one application to the other would not work, because any time it would attempt to evaluate a DB.Null for those types it would throw an exception.

possible solution: The work around would be to locate the properties field for each value of those types in the schema .xsd file and change the NullValue field from (Throw Exception) to a default value for that type (example: int a default value of 0, bool a default value of false, DateTime a default value of 00/00/0000 00:00:00:00,etc). this means that if it was to receive a data set that was pointing to the same schema file(copy paste) or read a DB.Null value it would allow the dataset object to replace those DB.Null members with the default values instead of throwing an exception.

I tried many times to write in the xml elements attributes to allow nillable or would allow for those members to be the equivalent of a nullable type (example: int?) though this didn't seem to alleviate the issue. Also did set the AllowDBNull field in the properties panel to true but still got exceptions.

Another solution which is the route I opted for is to create a object that mirrors the data table classes and members for the data set and to map them accordingly and send that object to the .Net Core application but be warned you have to make mirroring objects and first map in the .Net application to send to .Net Core because the api call will fail if you attempt to have it mapped in .Net Core due to the fact that you can not cast a type dataset to object directly, this is because there are multiple rows and columns you are attempting to cast into one object presumably.

if you look at the generated designer file for the data set and make a mirroring classes note that there are multiple rows which is the equivalent of multiple object instances so either map through a specific one (example: dataset.table.FirstOrDefault() ) or through all of them to map them to the mimicked object(example: foreach(var row in datatable){ object dto = row})

reference link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/data-tools/create-and-configure-datasets-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022

additional Notes: for those wondering, I did attempt to generate classes and data sets with the xsd.exe terminal commands and though it generated classes or a dataset the classes did not behave the same way with the ability to access members and their values as easily and the data set would still throw exceptions in .Net Core. If any other dev's have insight into potential options or alternatives to this problem your input is welcome

Ruby on Rails Cable

danielarmbruster0314 — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:38:54 +0000

I was wondering if anybody has some good resources for Active Record cable. I am trying to make a messaging application and am trying to understand how WebSocket's in cable work as well as how to subscribe and unsubscribe from a socket and how to broadcast back to the clients that are subscribed. All the resources I have come across feel difficult to grasp what is happening and it feels like a lot of magic is happening.

Another project added semi-complete

danielarmbruster0314 — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:04:11 +0000

Today I submitted my coding project for my coding bootcamp witch utilized both a React client side model and a Ruby server side model. The project was built between me and my partner and was a amazon-clone(very original I know). Building this project was really fun and a lot of work for one week so there are tones of areas in the code that need refactoring and revision. Also I wanted to create a filter page for the items in the inventory, a render of the average rating of each product, and a working login page, however just developing the application in its current state came with its fair share of struggles. I think whenever I have more time I plan on revisiting this project and adding those final touches. The biggest error or issue I was having is that I tried to use the useContext feature from React however it was creating some bugs due to how the app was mounting. This was causing all of my data objects to not set in state. Some solutions I tried to implement to work around this was to use a useEffect hook and a time out function, however it was still having some issues so I resulted to prop drilling, which would not be the optimal solution for sure. The coding problem I had the most fun creating and solving was the rating feature that would generate either a filled star or an outlined star depending on the rating of the product. To achieve this I created an array of five zeros and applied a fill method based on the object rating amount and would fill the given positions in the array with a value of 1 and the return a star if the value was 1 and an outline if the value was zero. Vimeo:

That's funny

danielarmbruster0314 — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:26:54 +0000

Funny to know every time I have filled out a profile on some application I am objectifying myself.

Active Record

danielarmbruster0314 — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:09:50 +0000

Just went through the processes of learning how to migrate data in Ruby to a SQLite database and then learned about Active Record and it is making the whole processes feel easier to achieve than it felt to write out the logic for the same process. Is there something like this for C++?

Writing Tests

danielarmbruster0314 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:21:23 +0000

I have been spending some time looking around on the forums and have found that a lot of people talk about learning to implement creating tests for their code as one of the things they whish they started learning sooner. I am still fairly new to programming and a majority of the time naively just look for the code to have the outcome I'm looking for without testing. Although that's definitely not best practice and was wondering if anybody had any resources or tips on how to learn and improve writing tests for your code.

SQLite

danielarmbruster0314 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:49:42 +0000

I just got some exposure to SQLite and man this thing can handle some data and dish it out with just a couple words. I mean we got data linked to data linked to data out here, its like a multidimensional excel sheet.

Ruby classes seem pretty cool

danielarmbruster0314 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:27:01 +0000

I just started to get a handle on conceptualizing Ruby classes and am feeling like there is a lot of potential here. I have yet to see how to apply them when it comes to creating a restful API though. What is the application of classes in terms of a REST Api?

Alright on to ruby and boy oh boy!?!?

danielarmbruster0314 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:56:18 +0000

Today in the curriculum of my bootcamp they were introducing the concept of require and require_relative. However the example they used had classes and so I did some digging and are ruby classes somewhat similar or conceptually close to react components? I mean you build it so that when it is passed data it builds an object and in react you pass a component data to create DOM elements. Is this conclusion accurate? Are they both modular?

I did it I made a react project

danielarmbruster0314 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 20:18:15 +0000

I just finished creating my first react application. Lets Go! It used two Api's one that converted crypto currency and another that had crypto related news and created a multi-page layout using the browser router npm package as well as adding some animations with styled-components. And man it was such a fun experience building this project and learning a new thing for every new concept I wanted to implement. For example my favorite thing I got to implement the JavaScript key word "confirm" to prompt the user to confirm if they wanted to delete a saved conversion and if they clicked confirm it would send a delete fetch request to remove it from my local db.json server and if they clicked cancel it wouldn't remove the item they selected.

https://gifs.com/gif/daniel-s-react-project-WP16vx