I recently completed a six week batch at The Recurse Center. I had a magical time and learned at a tremendous pace.
For my full thoughts and reflections, see my recent post My Time At The Recurse Center. Otherwise, here are the highlights!
I knew that I wanted to write a lot at RC. In my application interviews, I was asked how I would be able to tell if my batch was a success and I said I hoped to leave behind many technical artifacts, like repositories and blog posts.
At RC, I wrote five blog posts:
- Sandboxing JavaScript Code
- Implementing Highlighting, Search, and Undo
- Making a Text Editor with a Game Engine
- Profiling and Optimizing an Interpreter
- Adding For Loops to an Interpreter
I worked on a range of projects, including:
- A text editor
- A programming language called nodots
- A sandbox project for executing untrusted JavaScript/TypeScript code
- An example of how to make web requests from a V8 Isolate
- A Brainfuck compiler (with Sam)
- Design tweaks, a /notes page, and and end-to-end tests for my website
- An AI for 2048 (with Sam)
- A website to share baby photos with my family
- A tiny Python application that shows how far your cursor has travelled
I tried to get through a stack of technical books but didn’t make much of a dent 😅
I pair programmed a lot, made many friends, and wholeheartedly recommend the experience.
Cheers,
Andrew