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 Dulio Denis and originally appeared on his blog. Dulio is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Another geofencing Morning Assessment. This time I put in a button to switch between jumping in and out of the region I set-up so I wouldn’t
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
The following is a guest post by Margaret Lee and originally appeared on her blog. Margaret is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. This is a journey of a housewife learning to code. Over the years, I’ve become quite a creative chef trying to feed two very picky
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.
The following is a guest post by Chris Gonzales and originally appeared on his blog. Chris is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. It’s Alive!!! (Locally) KegKong lives! In Smart-Kegs Part I we left off with our flowmeter and arduino sending incomplete readings to the raspberry pi with no database persistance. I
The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog.
The genesis of the app was really more an area of focus than anything specific. After completing Ashley William’s CitiBike excercise for class at The Flatiron School
The following is a guest post by Jordan Trevino and originally appeared on his blog. Jordan is currently a student at The Flatiron School. In this post I want to discuss how we deployed to production on Heroku despite having applications running sqlite databases. The problem Sqlite is a very easy database to setup, and hence, it
The following is a guest post by Steven Brooks and originally appeared on his blog. Steven is currently a student at The Flatiron School. This is continued from a series on Steven’s pursuit to build his first app.
The following is a guest post by Ruthie Nachmany and originally appeared on her blog. Ruthie is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. My octopress blog works now, but it wasn’t working for a while. I’ve overheard from some of my classmates at Flatiron that they are experiencing this as