Flatiron School Blog

The following is a guest post by Max Jacobson and originally appeared on his blog. Max is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. I’ve been using this Octopress blog for a couple weeks and I’m compelled to figure out how it works and came to be. Let’s spelunk now. In […]

The following is a guest post by Alex Au and originally appeared on his blog. Alex is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. How will you learn to program? What you learn first can determine your future as a programmer. As a novice, I can only speak to my experience. […]

Using the blinking LED as an indicator, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could get my Ardunio talking with Gmail to alert me if I had any unread inbox messages.

The following is a guest post by Joe Giralt and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. So you don’t trust the government and you want privacy. Assume  the NSA pays 0.01cents  per GB a month (which is  10 times cheaper than amazon) with a 20 million […]

The Ardunio platform is based on a language (and environment) called Wiring, which is in turn based on C++ – quite a bit different from our pretty happy friend Ruby.

The following is a guest post by Joshua Collins and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The three-week crash course in learning about computer programming leveraging existing teaching tools. Initial Greeting and Background Greetings and welcome to my technical blog. This is my […]