I am a young developer (currently starting high school), who is always building things and experimenting with new programming languages and technologies.
— About: an introduction and a short history
— Blog: I write articles about code
— Code: a few projects I've built
— Résumé: what I've done and what I offer
Scroll down to see my latest blog posts, and I hope you enjoy this site.
— Fred Adams, November 7, 2019
Fred Adams
November 9, 2019
Introduction It seems like almost every other click on the internet ends up in an "Error 404: Page Not Found" page. "Whoops, the page you're looking for does not exist," "Sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server," "Oops, something went wrong. Page not ... (more)
Fred Adams
November 6, 2019
Thumbnail source: engineering.fb.com Introduction On October 29, 1959, 50 years ago, Charley Kline, a student at UCLA, sent the first ever message over ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. Kline sent the first message to Bill Duval of Stanford University and intended to send the message "l... (more)
Fred Adams
October 27, 2019
Introduction I will start off by saying that I am a self-taught developer. When I started programming, the internet was the primary place I went to learn. Online tools like W3Schools and Stack Overflow were my go-to sites for quick references and syntax for the various languages and frameworks I was... (more)
Fred Adams
October 24, 2019
A Quick Background At my school (yes, I am a teenager), there's a school library, which I go to often. One particular day I decided to see if they had any books on web design and development. I've been building websites for a while, but, just for fun, I wanted to see what my school's library had to ... (more)
Fred Adams
October 19, 2019
Introduction Deep Thinking is a book written by Garry Kasparov about chess and machine learning. Kasparov, who is a former chess world champion, is famous not only for his achievements in chess, but for being the first world champion to lose to a computer in May 1997. IBM's Deep Blue (chess machine)... (more)
Fred Adams
October 10, 2019
First, thank you so much for clicking on this post, much appreciated! I've recently made a pretty big update to my personal website, at xtrp.io which is now at version 4. I built it with my own MVC system written in PHP, and it would be great if I could get some constructive criticism and/or suggest... (more)
Fred Adams
October 2, 2019
Imagine you are building a simple search form, where a user types their search into an input box, and then clicks the search button to search. Here's some sample HTML for the search form: <input placeholder="Search..."> <button>Search!</button> Note that the search button should on... (more)
Fred Adams
September 30, 2019
I've been building websites for a few years now, and there are some online tools that I come back to time and time again whenever I start a new project, for fonts, colors, free photos, and more. These tools are invaluable to me when designing websites, so I've compiled a list of them below. I hope y... (more)
Fred Adams
September 29, 2019
Hi! We meet again. It's been a while since I've last written on this blog, but I'm back. Since I last wrote, quite a lot has happened. And I'm excited to write about it. First and foremost, I'd like admit something. Something that's been on my mind since I started coding, and since I started putting... (more)
A simple program to solve plaintext word searches.
Written in: Python 2.7
The classic pong game written in Python Tkinter.
Written in: Python 2.7, Python Tkinter
The classic snake game written in Python Tkinter.
Written in: Python 2.7, Python Tkinter