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Jen Looper

@jenlooper

As an educator, author and technologist, Jen Looper has over 25 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform web & mobile apps.

Boston, MA

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Nov 12 '20

Announcing a Free Curriculum: Web Development for Beginners

Learn the basics of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from Azure Advocates in this free online curriculum

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Oct 21 '20

Saving Halloween 2020 with Azure Maps and Candy Caches

Let me show you how I rallied my town and created a map showing kids where to find contactless, pandemic-friendly candy caches that saved Halloween!

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Sep 3 '20

Azure Maya Mystery Part III: Ascent to the Summit

Ascend to the summit of the Azure Maya Mystery's forgotten pyramid in the jungle, learning its name and the goddess to whom it is dedicated

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Aug 3 '20

Azure Maya Mystery Part II: The Mysterious Cenote

Jump in to the mysterious cenote to discover more about the Azure Maya Mystery's pyramid

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Jul 2 '20

Unraveling the Azure Maya Mystery and Building A World

Learn how we built a text-based game to teach about Ancient Maya Glyphs and discover aspects of Microsoft Azure, all built on an Azure Static Web App

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Apr 30 '20

Ice Cream Or Dalmatian? Who Can Tell?! Building a Machine-Learning Powered PWA

Build an offline-first Progressive Web App that uses a machine learning model built on CustomVison.ai's service to differentiate between tricky images and deploy it using a GitHub Action

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Jan 31 '20

2019 Retrospective and 2020 Roadmap

We had a tremendous year in 2019. Let's learn about what we did and where we're going in 2020.

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Jan 31 '20

Deploy your Website on Azure with GitHub Actions like a Hipster

Need to deploy your website? Want to use GitHub Actions like those cool kids over there? I'll show you how!

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Dec 3 '19

Lucy's Dilemma - Day 2 of the #25DaysOfServerless Challenge

Lucy has a problem, and a serverless scheduler can help!

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Dec 2 '19

Spin Your Dreidel! Day 1 of the #25DaysOfServerless Challenge

Let's start with a very simple challenge: create a function to spin a dreidel

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Nov 19 '19

Merry and Bright with Azure Advocates’ 25 Days of Serverless

Learn about Azure Advocates' 25 Days of Serverless project - 25 days of fun puzzles on serverless technologies

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Oct 31 '19

The Making of the Azure Mystery Mansion

Creating a text-based game to introduce folks to Microsoft Azure

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