Recently, I finished reading the book ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ by Steve Krug. I would highly recommend reading the book since it is filled with amazing examples that will help you understand better. Below I have listed the key learning points on how to create more effective, efficient, and usable…

In the last post, we talked about implementing a simple line chart with tooltips using d3.js and React. Today, we will be looking into how to create a Pie Chart. Creating a new component The basic structure of our <PieChart /> component will look like this: import React, { useEffect } from 'react'; import *…

Create stunning data visualizations in your app today — D3.js is a data visualization library that is used to create beautiful charts and visual representations out of data using HTML, CSS, and SVG. You can plot and choose from a wide variety of charts such as treemaps, pie charts, sunburst charts, stacked area charts, bar charts, box plots, line…

In the last blog post, we talked about calling C/C++ code from JavaScript using WebAssembly and Emscripten. Today, we will be discussing how to call JavaScript code from C/C++ with and without Emscripten. Using the import object Remember how we passed an import object to instantiate our WebAssembly modules last time? …

According to the official website, WebAssembly is described as below — WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. For the purpose of this…

The Interview Process First, let’s talk about the Interview Process. Let’s go back to November 2019, when I came across a LinkedIn post about winter internships at HackerRank (Jan — July). At that time I didn’t really pay much attention to it because of my past bitter interviewing experiences. I have spent my…

I recently interviewed with Google for a University Grad role based in Tokyo, Japan in October. After passing my phone screen, I was invited to interview onsite in Bangalore. …

I’ve been waiting to get my interview results to write about my experience. I finally received an email from my recruiter earlier today which eventually completes the process for me. Application Process I applied through the Google Careers page. I didn’t really have a referral but I used to apply quite often…

Last week I got the chance to fly all the way from India to speak at the FOSSASIA Summit 2019, Singapore. I had applied earlier in December as a speaker and was selected to speak about Outreachy. Unfortunately, my mid semester exams happened to be during the same week as…