Flatiron School

The following is a guest post by Alex Au and originally appeared on his blog. Alex is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. How will you learn to program? What you learn first can determine your future as a programmer. As a novice, I can only speak to my experience. […]

The following is a guest post by Sagar Shah and originally appeared on his blog. Sagar is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. This weekend I scoured speakerdeck.com for a presentation related to the topics that we’re beginning to cover in class. I came across the following slide deck from […]

Name: Emily Stolfo Job: Adjust professor at Columbia University, MongoDB Ruby Driver engineer, 10Gen Twitter: @emstolfo   Emily Stolfo’s 5 Hacker Habits Treat the Internet as your textbook Be able to debug code you didn’t write Build something to solve a real-world problem Engage with the community Think critically about code

The following is a guest post by Samantha Radocchia and originally appeared on her blog. Samantha is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Gaming is cool you guys.  I’d like to talk a little bit about my educational background for a second. Aside from receiving a BA in linguistics, critical […]

Using the blinking LED as an indicator, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could get my Ardunio talking with Gmail to alert me if I had any unread inbox messages.

The following is a guest post by Joe Giralt and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. So you don’t trust the government and you want privacy. Assume  the NSA pays 0.01cents  per GB a month (which is  10 times cheaper than amazon) with a 20 million […]