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How I Learned to Code in 8 Months

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 follow her on twitter here. When many people look at my resume, they’re often confused by my drastic career switch. They’re also confused by how much I’ve learned in the past […]
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How to count Ruby Array items

The following is a guest post by Rex Feng and originally appeared on his blog. Rex is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. While working in Ruby, I often find myself trying to get a count of the number of times each item appears in an […]
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First Ruby Motion App

I recently dived into rubymotion head first and since there is a definite lack of quality tutorials out there I decided to outline my first ruby motion project.
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How to Do Cool Things With the CoreAudio Gem

The following is a guest post by Brad Wheel and originally appeared on his blog. Brad is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. Look out for part 2 soon! I recently discovered a ruby gem that acts as a wrapper for the Mac Core Audio API (it’s written in C) and […]
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Ruby Patterns: Mass Assignment

The following is a guest post by Kevin Curtin and originally appeared on his blog. Kevin is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. A common pattern in programming is to instantiate a new object and assign a bunch of attributes during initialize. You probably recognize code […]
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How to Make Conditional Requests to Github’s API Using Octokit

The following is a guest post by Josh Rowley and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. For the last month, my team and I have been working on Gitbo, an app for finding open source software issues on Github […]