When people think about Nmap, they usually picture network scans. But Nmap is also a powerful tool for gathering information about websites. You can use it to: Find open services Analyze SSL ...

I recently ran into a great Programming with Frameworks exam question that turned out to be an interesting hands-on exercise: Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/) is a website that offers ac...

Azure offers students a fantastic opportunity: $100 in free credits and access to a powerful set of tools, including the ability to create virtual machines. In this guide, I’ll go over how to turn...

As part of a personal project, I built a small Flask app that fetches weather data using the OpenWeather API. Since my school gives me access to Azure for Students, I figured it would be a great op...

The Problem: An Java Networking Exam Question About a Smart Light Sensor It started as a straightforward exam question: “You are tasked with developing a Java command-line application that com...

When you’re getting into Elixir—or functional programming in general—you’ll quickly hear about immutability. I’ve previously talked about how it’s one of the core fundamental concepts of Elixir, so...

Functional programming is at the heart of Elixir. Unlike traditional imperative programming where code executes sequentially and often mutates data along the way, Elixir takes a different approach:...

If you’re a student and love to tinker with projects, GitHub has a treat for you: a free .tech domain for one year! This is part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which includes tons of perks f...

Building a Simple Knowledge-Based System (KBS) in Python I recently took a knowledge-based systems course where I was required to learn how to build a simple knowledge-based system (KBS) from scra...

What Are Constructors in Java? Constructors are a Java concept that took me some practice to fully grasp. This post contains my notes on the concept for reference and posterity. A constructor is ...