Flatiron School Blog

The following is a guest post by Christopher Lee and originally appeared on his blog. Christopher is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. During my second week of learning how to code at the Flatiron School, we were given the Towers of Hanoi problem to apply our new […]

The following is a guest post by Samuel Owens and originally appeared on his blog. Samuel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Today I wanted to talk about a couple ways I think the .tap method in Ruby is useful. The first time a lot of us […]

The following is a guest post by Joe O’Conor and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is a Flatiron School alumni. You can follow him on Twitter here. I’d come across ARGV or ARGV[0] a few times while looking at code examples on StackOverflow or the Ruby mailing lists. I recognized it as a kind of placeholder variable, but did not really […]

The following is a guest post by Logan Hasson and originally appeared on his blog. Logan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the greatest things about Ruby is its never-ending ability to momentarily bewilder you before exploding your brain all over your face. Whether it’s […]

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

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.