For Code Newbies
Notes from Edx’s VR Certificate course Week 1 (cont..) The Human Visual System and Display Methods [3D Vision] 1. Monocular 3D Cues Monocular 3D Cues: means how the human eye can estimate depth with even one eye closed Figuring out relative sizes: We compare the relative sizes of objects on our retina with the other retina. Smaller objects are thought to be further away from
Notes from Edx’s VR Certificate course A I hear and I forgot, I see and I rememeber, I do and I understand. History Human Focus Display Devices Input Devices Interaction Concepts 1. Defining features of VR: VR always has to do with a computer generated virtual world Interaction: respond/feedback to user action in as natural way was possible Immersive: achieved by displaying thr VR world
This past week (17th-24th March) Cyberworkspace and Cultivating Coder’s held a “Cyberheroes program” in Rotterdam to inculcate the practice of ethical hacking amongst a growing population of high-schoolers who are consumers and makers of technology (basically coding). It was pretty much a hands-on week full of learning new stuff and coding, ending with a competition that involved using Burp suite, brute force hacking with
Password theory Password estimation : character set size As bandwidth increases, cracking time gets lower in online cracking Hash functions SHA1, SHA256 family of functions (hashing functions) Botnet
Cryptography rules our world Hack first and deploy later Detect Respond Prevent Verify Split the network, compartmentalized (networking) Action: Combine feeds at scale DDOS Attack (Denial of Service Attack) Example ping death Kill Chain Sending out HTTP errors post login on fake website (example 400 errors) Dutch legislation: Co-ordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Individual hackers, hactivists, criminals, geopolitical state hackers IOT : low security and they’re
I’ve been working on a new project “Newbie Stack” which is a project based course on fullstack JavaScript. Like my other classes it’s all project based. The basic premise of the course it to take a complete newbie from Zero to Hero in a couple of hours. The stack will comprise of FrontEnd, MiddleWare and BackEnd. Stack to be revealed soon!
JavaScript function to crash your browser via an infinite loop
Work in progress on codepen…
Anonymous functions: “Anonymous functions are created at runtime. The function operator can be used anywhere that it’s valid to use an expression. For example you can use the function operator when a variable is being assigned, when a parameter is being passed to a function or in a return statement.” more @helephant
Something messed up with codepen today or maybe just my browser (Firefox Dev edition) but here is the function to capitalize the 1st letter of a word in a string.
