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On Convention
The following is a guest post by Kyle Shike and originally appeared on his blog. Kyle is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The use of convention in the programming ethos is a pretty remarkable thing. It exists outside of the ruthlessly binary computing process, and it ultimately […]
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Creating my first gem
The following is a guest post by Scott Luptowski and originally appeared on his blog. Scott is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. A few weeks ago, I built a Ruby script to find the current standings of the English Premier League and display them in the terminal. […]
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Inheritance and Modules
At the end of last week, we discussed inheritance and modules. I needed to review it as not all of it had sunk-in at runtime-lecture. So here goes.
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Name Game Takeaways
The following is a guest post by Theo Vora and originally appeared on his blog. Theo is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. After 3 weeks at the Flatiron School, my teammates and I decided to embark on a mini project. We had dabbled in a lot of […]
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Modules, Classes, Pterosaurs
The following is a guest post by Ivan Brennan and originally appeared on his blog. Ivan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Pterosaurs, bats, and birds can/could all fly, but each evolved the ability independent of the others. This is an example of convergent evolution, the “independent evolution of […]
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Autovivification in Ruby
Autovivification is the concept that a hash style data structure can make inferences about its internal structure as it is being created
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MapKit and ESRI ShapeFiles
The following is a guest post by Al Tyus and originally appeared on his blog. Al is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Why Use ShapeFiles? While MapKit provides a super easy way for we dev folk to utilize geographical data in our apps, you’ll quickly realize that […]