The Matrix: You’ll Have to See It for Yourself.

To find your perfect gig, you need to show the world who you are. Prior to the end of 2020, I hadn’t written a line of code, save making those circles on the Apple 2E in grade school. (I’m old. Deal with it.) Since I completed my certification, and the…

part of the #JavaScript30 challenge I’m super thankful for the #JavaScript30 challenge. It’s letting me build some fun, useful apps and have served as a springboard for some potential other uses. The concept is simple, create a div element that pertains to a specific key on the keyboard, and assign…

To loop or not to loop. When navigating through LeetCode, there a few battles that wage on. Mainly, the “just make it work” vs. “how clean and simple can I make this?”. I struggle with the former when I try t adhere to the latter. Somewhere along the way, I…

[array, window size]— Just trying to figure it all out. After I graduated from my Flatiron, the real real challenges began: figuring out all these algorithms and data structures to help you land that perfect job(or that gets you closer to your perfect job). One such algorithm was the sliding window. Consider this scenario: Using a given array of elements…

When I was just a wee programmer 14 months ago, making some Ruby code work correctly made me feel like king of the world. It’s laughable to think how much was to come down the pike and the challenges I’d face, (and will continue to down the line!). One such…

As I’ve been working through my coding boot camp, I have always been leery of being asked to create a search function. For whatever reason -be it Ruby, Rails, or JavaScript, I was always trepidatious about coding one. Until now. I’m going to show you how to create a real-time…

(key info to share during my torrid affair with learning javascript. twice.) Most people won’t come into Javascript with a prior knowledge of Ruby on Rails. I did, and that made some of the transitions helpful, especially with making analogies along the way. But even for someone where some of…

(What I learned from triple nesting resources.) Two of the major skills that were highlighted during the Phase 3/Rails session at FlatIron were nested resources and understanding scope methods. I’d like to share my process— and it may serve as a learning tool or a creepy campfire tale of questionable…

The struggle is real. As a teacher, I was pretty lucky to do my job remotely for the last 8 months, giving me some extra hours each day to focus on my Flatiron studies. But right around when Phase 2 started, I started going back to the school to teach…