Flatiron School Blog

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Autovivification is the concept that a hash style data structure can make inferences about its internal structure as it is being created

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 […]

The following is a guest post by Tiffany Peon and originally appeared on her blog. Tiffany is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Ever since starting at Flatiron my friends have been asking me on a regular basis whether or not I can “make cool stuff” yet. So […]