Software Engineering

The Ternary Operator

The following is a guest post by Patrick Janson and originally appeared on his blog. Patrick is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. In this post, I wanted to take a look at a conditional that I have used many times as a beginner but as our class has moved into object oriented programming, […]
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A Short Explanation of ARGV

The following is a guest post by Joe O’Conor and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is a Flatiron School alumni. You can follow him on Twitter here. I’d come across ARGV or ARGV[0] a few times while looking at code examples on StackOverflow or the Ruby mailing lists. I recognized it as a kind of placeholder variable, but did not really […]
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Dot(.) Send Me to the Moon

The following is a guest post by Logan Hasson and originally appeared on his blog. Logan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the greatest things about Ruby is its never-ending ability to momentarily bewilder you before exploding your brain all over your face. Whether it’s […]
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Git Kitchen with Chef Ramsay

The following is a guest post by Saron Yitbarek and originally appeared on her blog. Saron is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here.
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What are the most used laptops at Flatiron? MacBook Pro or Air? 11,13,15 inch?

The MacBook Air 11” is really popular here at Flatiron. 
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On the Benefit of Mapping Things Out

As soon as I’ve learned a new concept in Ruby and am given a prompt with which to use it, the very first thing I want to do is power up Sublime Text and just start hammering away at the keyboard