DEV Community: Caleb (pxlmastr)

Let's see what happens. Good luck everyone!

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:22:35 +0000

DEV Codes Together

Caleb (pxlmastr) ・ Mar 6

DEV Codes Together

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:21:26 +0000

Hey, DEV!!!

I thought of this and thought it would be a fun post, so here it is! I personally believe that this single post will rise to trending within a few days due to its fun nature.

The Goal

Basically, each comment thread will be its own file. Our goal is to code stuff, one line at a time, together.

So, Here's:

The Rules

You may only paste in ONE LINE OF CODE. After that, you're done (for that thread)
No switching the Programming Language. If you wanna code in something different, make a new thread.
No one-liners. That's Cheating.
Don't make other people's code useless. Make every comment contribute to something.
No Bugs. If you have to, collaborate and let people know they need to edit their comment.

In the end, we will potentially have a fully-functioning program! (Or a hot mess >:D )

Good Luck Everyone!!!!!

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No responses? Dang. Hope we get some today. Have a good one guys!

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:06:44 +0000

Free Follow(s) Challenge: Who can code a Number parser from Scratch?

Caleb (pxlmastr) ・ Mar 5

#programming #javascript #beginners #discuss

Let's go guys! Who will win?

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:56:24 +0000

Free Follow(s) Challenge: Who can code a Number parser from Scratch?

Caleb (pxlmastr) ・ Mar 5

#programming #javascript #beginners #discuss

Free Follow(s) Challenge: Who can code a Number parser from Scratch?

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:49:08 +0000

I'm sure y'all know how this works...

Instructions

Code a number parser from scratch in the language of your choice. Make it so it take a String (or whatever is a string in the language) and is able to parse it and turn it into a number.
If you want an extra challenge, add support for decimals as well!!!

Restrictions

You may NOT use ANY built-in parsing function, because this is a challenge to test problem-solving skills.
No ChatGPT (or any other AI) or begging people on Stack Overflow for help.

Reward

If you are finish with all restrictions met, you will recieve a free follow from both me and potentially others for sharing your (hopefully) amazing code with the community.

Good Luck Everyone!!!

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Caleb (pxlmastr) — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:59:14 +0000

Link #1: Definitely not a meme
Definitely not an ad

Link #2: Definitely not a rickroll
Definitely not a rickroll

I know this is a low quality Post, but it's meme Monday. happy monday everyone hehe

It's Friday but also not Friday, I guess

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:28:24 +0000

My Experience Learning C++ (so far)

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:14:06 +0000

`std::cout << "Hello, World!";`

For those of you who don't know me (i assume all of you don't. Just assuming), my name is Caleb, and I'm a 16-year-old high school student who is persuing a tech career in the future.

I've developed in a lot of different languages in the past, including:

Scratch (my first 😉)
Python 🐍
Bash (doesn't count, but kinda got me into programming)
Javascript, and
Rust.

All five of these languages hold a special place in my heart, but I decided that I need to learn a language that can get me a job in the future, so I did some research, and found these:

Java
C#
C++

Now, don't roast me for this, but I absolutely HATE Java. It seems so complex to write just a simple program, and I tend to agree with the memes that the only applicable use case is Minecraft.

;

Also, C# seems to be decent, but complex as well. It seems to me that the best language out of these three is C++, as it's used in countless places including gaming, servers, IOT, and more. So, I had a clear choice.

It Begins.

The first thing I ever did in C++ was try to create a project without guides. (our power was out, so I couldn't use the internet.) So, what did i do?

I excitedly pulled up my terminal, ran

~$ c++ init

and was bamboozled that for some reason in this world, it didn't work.

After our power came back on, I decided to actually google what the package manager was for c++, and how to initialize a project for it.

I searched and searched for FOUR WHOLE HOURS for a package manager, and never found one that was official.

Eventually, I understood that you needed to make the files and folders yourself, and facepalmed myself about 10 times, giving myself both a nosebleed and an excuse to go to the bathroom.

My first thoughts

There were a few things that i noticed at first:

1. The type goes BEFORE the variable.

So, I desperately searched for a way to make stuff simpler, and found this, which made me finally feel at-home with variable definition:

auto myvariable = type();

Finally, closure.

This got me quickstarted, making a few small projects like a number-guessing game and a smol calculator.

2. Project Structure

Many people tend to space their functions out into different files, and then compile them altogether. I mean, this is alright, but I prefer to keep my main functions inside main.cpp and then just compile everything together.

3. What's the masco- WHAT IN THE DEVIL'S NAME IS THAT

"The mascot for C++ is an obese, diseased rat named Keith, whose hind leg is missing because it was blown off."

This was the first time I severely considered just quitting, because of I missed the days of cute, fun mascots like this:

But, I pushed on, and I'm still learning.

What's next

OOP
Memory management
Algorithms

Oh well, it'll be fine.

Thanks for reading! Have a good day dudes

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What is the best LLM?

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:21:10 +0000

There are lots of LLMs out there, each trying (and succeeding) to dethrone the champ, ChatGPT. In your opinion, what is the best LLM overall and what are the reasons you think so?

Creating a minimalistic To-Do app in Vue.js

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:12:09 +0000

Hello, World!

(this is my first actual post)

Pre-article

I know y'all don't read the description, so the final project (with css of course) is here:
To-Do list

Introduction

Vue is an amazing framework that you can use almost everywhere. You can program it in Node.js, or even in a serverless fashion (what I will be doing). One of the most common first webdev projects you will eventually do with a new framework is a To-Do list, which I decided to do with Vue as my first big one and first actual GitHub Repo!

My editor setup (since i'm on a chromebook)

VSCode web + Volar (Vue language features)

Getting started

So I first decided to make a simple UI and then add on some features. I started off my UI like this:

<div id="app">
    <h1>To-Do list</h1>
    <input placeholder="Add a new task..." /><button>Add</button>
    <br />
    <ul>
        <li> tasks go here... </li>
    </ul>
</div>

Pretty simple right? Well, at least that's what it was before I injected Vue and Tailwind into it... 😆

Adding Reactivity

I went ahead and installed Vue in my webpage using the CDN, like this (put it in your head or wherever you like)

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js"></script>

Then, I made a script tag below my div and started writing code. Here's what I started with:

const {ref, createApp} = Vue

createApp({
  setup() {
    let tasks = ref([])
    let input = ref('')

    function addnewTask() {
      tasks.value.push(input.value); // add a new task from the <input>
      input.value = '' // clear the <input>
    }

    return {
      tasks,
      input, 
      addnewTask,
    }
  }
})

Then, to make the reactivity, I went and added some tags and attributes to my body.

<div id="app">
    <h1>To-Do list</h1>
    <input v-model="input" placeholder="Add a new task..." /><button @click="addnewTask">Add</button>
    <br />
    <ul>
        <li v-for="task in tasks">{{task}}</li>
    </ul>
</div>

That's the simplest I could make it for the start, but later on I added it where we could add more functionality. For example, later on, I had added a unique ID to each task so we could make a delete() function, and I had the program save your tasks to localStorage. That's all a bit too much, so you can see the full code on GitHub. Feel free to give it a star!

Thanks for reading, your pal,

pxlmastrXD

What is the __ programming language?

Caleb (pxlmastr) — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:06:45 +0000

Hey! Just wanted to see what y'all think is the __ programming language is for a school project.

Fastest
Easiest to learn
Most important
Favorite
All-in-all the best

Thanks! Have a great day!