Real stories from people
who made the shift
The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog. Micah is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As a babe in this programming excursion, I am always looking for help while I tool around. This has been very true with my playtime with ‘Git’.
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
This post is about how to get a valid JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) snippet from a Ruby Hash.
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
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.
When creating this pre-work, The Flatiron School had four goals in mind.
The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is a Flatiron School alumni. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on Twitter here. TL;DR: Instead of creating or hardcoding your own DateTime and Date objects, use built in ActiveSupport methods in your ActiveRecord queries. Using ActiveRecord is great because
As you might have guessed, params is an alias for the parameters method. params comes from ActionController::Base, which is accessed by your application via ApplicationController.
When called on an object, ‘tap’ yields that object to a block where other operations can be performed on it, and then returns the object to the method chain.
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. Last week I talked about the importance of conributing to open source documentation. Here is a quick guide on how to actually go through
A Message from Our Dean to Our Students I delivered this speech to students to mark the 1/3rd way through the Flatiron School journey: Now more than ever in your life your future can be of your choosing. If you seek out challenges, you will find them to be opportunities. If you confront your fears, you
The following is a guest post by Nikhil Thomas and originally appeared on his blog. Nikhil is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. One of the biggest mistakes we tend to make is placing a massive emphasis on multitasking. We tend to hero worship people who can juggle many projects,
Each week during the semester, Flatiron School students present on a topic of their choice to the NYC on Rails Meetup Group. Be sure to follow the presenters on Twitter: Corinna Brock & Rex Feng. At a recent NYC on Rails Meetup, student Corinna Brock showed us how to get started with Ruby Koans. Student Rex Feng presented
The following is a guest post by Jack Nolan and originally appeared on his blog. Jack is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. At one time or another I have experienced all major ways of learning computer science: self study, university classes, and the group-oriented classroom.