After our fourth month in the software engineering program at the Flatiron school, we had to build an application with a Rails API backend and a HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frontend. This was the next big step in my web development journey as I was leaving behind the comfortable confines…

After our fourth month in the software engineering program at the Flatiron school, we had to build an application with a Rails API backend and a HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frontend. This was the next big step in my web development journey as I was leaving behind the comfortable confines…

During month 3 at the Flatiron School, we learned about this absolutely incredible wed building framework called Ruby on Rails. Much like Sinatra, Ruby on Rails uses ActiveRecord and all of its awesome powers and adds to it with additional functionality. …

After my second month at the Flatiron School, I had the pleasure of creating a web application using the Sinatra framework. …

As I mentioned in my original post about my first project, one of the hardest aspects to grasp was how to take a collection of data and access it in my program. …

Over the last week, I have had the opportunity to get my first working application looked over by a few students and one of our instructors at the Flatiron School. Through this experience, I had the ability to participate in some live coding exercises that not only improved my application…

How I built my very first CLI application. — My first month at the Flatiron School’s FT Software Engineering program has been nothing short of amazing. The amount of information that I have learned about computer programming has kept me busy, but it is a joy to wake up every morning and learn more about this incredible field. At…

Why I am changing my career trajectory at 28. Since I was young, I have always had two main passions in life: the outdoors and computers. My weekends were either spent going camping, hiking, or backpacking or they were spent playing around on the family computer or on the latest video game console. When I entered the University of…