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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
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Seeing in Code

Looking at code is very new to me. Before April ‘13, the only lines of code I had ever seen probably were in the Matrix.
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Git Cookin’ With Git’s Octopress

The following is a guest post by Margaret Lee and originally appeared on her blog. Margaret is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. This is a journey of a housewife learning to code. Over the years, I’ve become quite a creative chef trying to feed two very picky […]
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Javascript Basics for Your Second Programming Language

I’m learning Javascript after learning Ruby. Below are my notes
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Connecting Ruby & Active Record Without Rails

The following is a guest post by Daniel Friedman and originally appeared on his blog**.** Daniel is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Building Towards Rails I’ve been messing with a practice app to get better at domain modeling, TDD, and the guts of Ruby and Rails. The plan was […]
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Smart-Kegs: Part II

The following is a guest post by Chris Gonzales and originally appeared on his blog. Chris is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. It’s Alive!!! (Locally) KegKong lives! In Smart-Kegs Part I we left off with our flowmeter and arduino sending incomplete readings to the raspberry pi with no database persistance. I […]