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Guest Speaker: Jeff Casimir
Name: Jeff Casimir Job: Principal at Jumpstart Lab, Director of gSchool Site: [http://jumpstartlab.com](http://jumpstartlab.com) & http://gschool.it Twitter: @j3 What was your experience learning to code? I have a degree in computer engineering and, when I got done with school, I had really no more interest in programming. It wasn’t until three years later when I discovered Rails, […]
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What Makes The Flatiron School Special?
The answer below was originally posted in response to a question on Quora about what distinguishes us from other programs. — Hey, I’m Avi, Dean of the Flatiron School I haven’t gone through any other programs (though I did create the syllabus for the original GA Intro to Web Development), so I can’t tell you what […]
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Programmer Of The Day: Grace Hopper
Today’s programmer of the day is Grace Hopper, computer scientist and United States Navy officer. She created the first compiler for a programming language, as well as one of the first modern programming languages COBOL. She served in WWII, and even popularized the term “debugging” when her team was removing an actual moth from a […]
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Programer of the day: Matz!
Today’s programmer of the day is Yukihiro Matsumoto aka Matz! <3 Matz is the creator and chief designer of the Ruby programming language and it’s reference implementation MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter). Matz says he created Ruby to make programmers happy, and designed it to be expressive. He is a famously nice guy, so much so […]
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Programmer Of The Day: Edgar Codd
Programmer of the day here at Flatiron School is Edgar Codd! He’s the Daddy of Relational Databases! A relation is in second normal form if the relation depends on the key, the whole key, and nothing but the key, so help me Codd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd
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Class Variables vs Class Instance Variables
The following is a guest post by James Vanneman and originally appeared on his blog. James is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. If you want data that only a class and it’s instances have access to, class variables often seem like the best […]
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Caching Fragments
The following is a guest post by Li Ouyang and originally appeared on her blog. Li is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter here. In order to speed up performance, sometimes you’ll want to cache a page. Once the data changes, the cached page should expire, […]