Coding and program development Archives

Coding is a process of writing a program in a programming language. On this page, we will have articles that incorporate coding disciplines and skills. We mostly use JavaScript as our language of choice.

Useful NPM packages for Node.js – March 2022

Rodiger DevOps2022-03-10T12:59:38+02:00March 9th, 2022|Tags: Coding, Intermediate, JavaScript, Node.js, npm|

To solve a development task, it's better to take a step by step approach. That's why developers create and use packages. In this article series called "Useful NPM packages for Node.js" we will periodically publish a collection of NPM packages that will give us the functionality of working with web services, time, configuration files, encryption, standardization and many more. So let's get started.

Summer project for students

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-02T13:19:39+02:00June 21st, 2021|Tags: Beginner, Coding, Students|

Academic / school year is almost over, and while some of you may have a few more subjects to finish, summer vacation is starting. Having fun and getting your mind off the school is expected, but we believe that you should spend, at least a part of, your free time expanding your knowledge.

Introduction to NodeJS

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T11:29:34+02:00December 16th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Coding|

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications. NodeJS relies on NPM packages and their dependencies. There is nearly a milion packages available to use with Node Package Manager.

Bot dialog interruption and cancellation

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-18T13:36:39+02:00November 23rd, 2020|Tags: Advanced, Chatbot, Coding|

Bot dialog cancellation and interruption is used to expand you bot's capabilities in waterfall dialogs in Bot Framework SDK bots. They are meant to enable you to quit your dialog if you don't want to finish it or to create custom interrupts to, for example, call for help in the middle of a dialog if you don't know how to proceed.

Writing bot dialogs

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:59:01+02:00November 17th, 2020|Tags: Advanced, Chatbot, Coding|

Writing bot dialogs has a lot to do with planning because you have to have all the dialog flow planned before you start writing your dialog. You also need to manage your dialog state and have a way to stop a dialog if needed.

Bot development

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T12:38:28+02:00October 27th, 2020|Tags: Chatbot, Coding, Intermediate|

This article introduces you to bot development which includes starting and testing your bot firstly. Secondly it teaches you to understand bot's scripts and how to write one yourself.