David Toops

David Toops

Shawnee, KS

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Toops Consulting

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

225 Achievements

  • What is Asynchronous Programming?
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • Loop Through Objects
  • Object Basics
  • Multidimensional Arrays
  • Loop Through Arrays
  • Store Multiple Values in an Array
  • Working with 'for' Loops
  • Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops
  • Arrow Functions
  • Pass Information Into Functions
  • Create Reusable Code with Functions
  • The Math Object
  • Working with Numbers
  • Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements
  • Working With Strings
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Reduction and Aggregation
  • Meet Streams
  • Java's Functional Toolset
  • What to Test
  • How To Test
  • Why Test
  • IDE Exploration
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • How it Works
  • Java Maps
  • Java Lists
  • Generics in Java
  • Interfaces in Java
  • Java Inheritance
  • Gotchas and Wins
  • Iteration
  • Creation
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass
  • Improve Your Workflow with Sass
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Ruby Conditionals
  • Ruby Numeric Types
  • Ruby Objects
  • Ruby Strings and Escape Sequences
  • Ruby Syntax
  • Exploring pandas
  • Meet pandas
  • Selecting Relevant Data
  • Handling Bad Data
  • “Clean” or “Dirty” Data
  • Array Programming
  • Array Organization
  • Meet NumPy
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • Additional Scraping Tasks
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Branches on Git Hosting Services
  • Remote Branches
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • Data Eruption
  • Chart Toppers
  • Getting Started with Data Visualization
  • Day 3: Getting Creative
  • Day 2: Advanced Selecting
  • Day 1: Joining Tables
  • Orientation: Selecting Data
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Big Data at Netflix
  • Where and How Big Data Is Used
  • What is Big Data
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Writing a Classifier
  • Machine Learning Vocabulary
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Common Commands
  • Directories and Files
  • The Command Shell
  • First Commits
  • A World Full of Spiders
  • Introducing Data Scraping
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Searching Names
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Merge Sort and Linked Lists
  • The Merge Sort Algorithm
  • Building a Linked List
  • Exploring Arrays
  • Build a Spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet Best Practices
  • Spreadsheet Functions & Formulas
  • Getting Started With Spreadsheets
  • Introducing Spreadsheets
  • Recursion and Space Complexity
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • The Lambda Lambada
  • Functional Workhorses
  • Functional Rules
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Timezones
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Buggy Logs
  • Cleaner Code
  • Dice Roller
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Regular Expressions
  • Python: Advanced Objects
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • Final Details
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • The Data Analysis Process
  • Getting to Know Your Data
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • Design Patterns
  • Page Layout
  • Django Forms
  • Site Building with the Drupal Interface
  • Learn About Drupal
  • Django Templates
  • Model Administration
  • What a View
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • Python: Inheritance
  • Python: Instant Objects
  • Build an Application
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • Using Lists
  • Meet Lists
  • All Together Now
  • Functions and Looping
  • Types and Branching
  • Meet Python
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • PHPDB Stage 2: Querying the Database with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • PHP Email Form Errors
  • PHP Email Forms
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Arrays
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Newbie