CoderMerlin Courier 2021.03.14

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

CoderMerlin Courier

Volume One, Issue Four - March Two Thousand Twenty-One

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science

Previous Contest Winner

FIRST PLACE

A warm congratulations to Brooke Phillips from Grace Christian Academy in Bainbridge, GA and her teacher Mrs. McRae! Her award-winning essay may be read here.

Current Contests

Graphics Contest

Create an image of  Coder Merlin™ 's familiar You can read more about the contest and prize: here.

Excalibur Award
	$150.00

Hints, Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

Command Line Tips

	Helpful Hint
	Brace expansion in the bash file. Try: john-williams@codermerlin$ echo {one,two,red,blue}fish

Swift Tips

	Helpful Hint
	Clarity is more important than brevity. Be sure to name all of your functions so that their purpose is clear.

Emacs Tips

	Helpful Hint
	Use incremental search for navigation. You can search forward using CONTROL-s and backwards (reverse) using CONTROL-r.

Git Tips

	Helpful Hint
	When you have changes in your working directory but want to put them aside for the time being, consider git stash. Use git stash when you want to record the current state of the working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working directory. The command saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match the HEAD commit.

Newly Installed and Updated Services

LDAP Authentication

LDAP authentication is now online and is the first step in our roadmap towards implementing unified sign-on to all of our services.