Courtney Brobst

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Spring Cleaning: White Board In the studio today, I have been spring cleaning. Going through old client files, cleaning out emails, organizing projects.

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Giving Mentoring Another Try

Giving Mentoring Another Try

To refresh your memories, I am trying to follow the “successful habits of wealthy people” guidelines that were outlined in an article I read online. The first guideline was to acquire a “success mentor.” The first experience searching for a mentor I documented last post. Long story short– it didn’t go well. Yesterday, I met with a new mentoring opportunity through SCORE. SCOREis a nonprofit…

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What Does Success Look Like?

What Does Success Look Like?

I was running through my Facebook feed recently and came across a post of an article about what habits financially wealthy people have. The spirit of the article was– do these healthy habits and you too will be financially wealthy. I had to laugh because the topic seemed a little ridiculous. Ridiculous because there are so many parts of life that contribute to someone’s financial wealth, habits…

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Declaring Variables and Other Fun Stuff

Declaring Variables and Other Fun Stuff

Now we know how to define an identifier, what a data type is, what a variable is– let’s learn how to declare a variable! When we declare a variable, we specify the name of the variable AND the data type. The syntax rule is:

datatype identifier;

For example:

int counter;

double interestRate;

char grade;

You can store a value in a variable by using an assignment statement in the following form:

var…

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Data Types- Here We Go!

Data Types- Here We Go!

Programs tend to manipulate data. We can design a program to do all types of things. Because of this, C++ categorizes data into different types of data. A data type is a set of values together with a set of allowed operations. Embrace that definition. Seriously. If you fully understand it, your life will be much easier in the realm of C++ programming.

C++ data types fall into three categories:

Si…

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You're So Special...Symbols

You’re So Special…Symbols

Do you know what tokens are? Not the kind you use to play games or ride the L. Tokens in C++ are the smallest individual unit of a program written. C++ tokens are divided into special symbols, word symbols, and identifiers. + – * / are mathematical symbols (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, respectively).  . ; ? ,  are special symbols, too. Commas are used to seperate items in…

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What Does This All Mean In C++?

What Does This All Mean In C++?

Last time we talked about creating a quick algorithm so we could write a program that would find the perimeter and area of a rectangle if we were given the length and width. Below is a quick program to do this and I’m going to explain each part as we go along.

When we write notes to other programmers, we use // before our comments. this allows the computer to skip over the comment. If we have…

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C++ In the beginning

C++ In the beginning

As I mentioned before, I’m learning C++. The best way for me to learn something is to talk incessantly about it ;-). And I will. I am a visual learner and you will see some not-so well crafted doodles but I’ll do my best. So we begin our quest…

Before we begin, I want to explain the role of the integrated development environment(IDE). So, we want to write a program. Using an IDE is necessary.…

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How Do I Talk to My Computer?

How Do I Talk to My Computer?

Do you know what language your computer “speaks?” It does speak a language, just not the kind of language you may think. Computers use digital signals to represent information. They are a sequence of 0s and 1s and we call this binary code. Take a minute and think about what binary means and the 0 and 1 thing will make total sense. So, we call the computer’s language machine language and machine…

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Elements of a Computer

Elements of a Computer

Computers run a large part of our lives. Every person is touched by a computer every day in some way. But what exactly is a computer? Or more specifically, what exactly is a computer system? A computer is an electronic device capable of performing commands. The basic commands computers perform are input and output(Input and output do exactly what they sound like they might do. Input means the…

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Ah, Computers...

Ah, Computers…

I confess, I am a computer geek. Ever since my father brought home our first PC, I was hooked. We had to type in DOS back then but I caught on quickly and spent hours playing Oregon Trail. It was a simpler time…

Flash forward to today and computers can be overwhelming. Advances happen so quickly. Once you think you’ve got one thing mastered, it suddenly becomes obsolete. It’s a brave new world…

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Does Your Business Need Social Media?

Does Your Business Need Social Media?

By Courtney Brobst

Where to start?

Social media is a form of marketing for businesses. It does take some thought so that you spend your time and money wisely. If you aren’t careful, you will end up spending more time on social media than on working your business. When you embark on this form of marketing, you need to know that it is a commitment of time and consistency. If you cannot make this…

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Everything Etsy

I wanted to share a great resource to the Etsy Learning Center’s Videos:

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App Development - What Language Are You Speaking?!

App Development – What Language Are You Speaking?!

It’s raining today which makes it a perfect time to continue working on my app development. I’ve gone over choosing a problem and determining the steps to solve the problem. I’m trying to make the steps for my first app very rudimentary. Right now I have 8 steps, but within each step are several steps. Creating a game is not the easiest thing to start with but it is what I’m going to create.

Befo…

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Crazy Making Cafepress... Goodbye!

Crazy Making Cafepress… Goodbye!

After having continued issues with commission distribution and quality issues around printing, I have decided to say goodbye to Cafepress. This doesn’t mean I will be giving up this stream of income, it just means I will be investigating a variety of other options. There are many similar companies with regard to what Cafepress does. Below is a list of opportunities for artists and illustrators to…

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Everything Etsy

Last week we talked about some behind-the-scene suggestions for getting my Etsy shop up and running. This week, I found another helpful article on critiquing your own shop. You can find this article here: https://blog.etsy.com/en/2012/etsy-success-critique-your-shop/

I thought I would run through my shop and see where I really need to focus. I have a feeling I have a lot of work ahead of me!

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App Development - It's All About the How

App Development – It’s All About the How

If you’ve been following along with my app development, you know the first step in creating a solid app is identifying the problem you wish to solve. My problem was:

…to match a word with an image with a limited amount of time to do so.

This is my “what.” My next step is to decide howto solve my problem. Every problem can have several ways to solve it. The trick is to determine the best way to…

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