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Getting ready to make the jump
“… the timing felt right.”
Working as a nurse came with its challenges. I was working overtime with a sporadic schedule and had the night shift from 7 pm to 7 am. It was definitely taking a toll on my physical and mental health. When 2020 came around I felt fired up to do something abou... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Career Change', 'Personal Growth', 'Software Engineering'] |
Location! Location? Location…
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So you may have heard the old adage “Location, location, location” when it comes to real estate. I know I heard it more than a few times growing up with a father who was a realtor for a few years. The phrase was first coined by Harold Samuel in 1... | ['Linear Regression', 'Data Science', 'King County Housing', 'Flatiron School'] |
This is a quick post that covers the important but easy-to-miss detail of your React app’s browser tab. By default it will look like the following:
That’s not our app!
Small overlooked details like this can adversely affect the overall impression of a website. Fortunately, this is an easy fix.
First, locate the defa... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'React', 'Google Chrome', 'JavaScript'] |
One of the first things I realized when embarking on this project was that pipelines are basically magical creations to streamline the process of fitting a classifier to the data. Pipelines take all the steps for scaling, preprocessing, and setting a classifier, and combine them into a single object that completes the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Flatiron School', 'Classification', 'Gridsearchcv', 'Data Science'] |
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As I begin wrapping up my final project for Flatiron School, I have begun to take a step back and reflect on all my experiences of attending an online coding boot camp during a global pandemic.
I’d like to start off by saying that my perception of time was heavily distorted by the pa... | ['Final Project', 'Reflections', 'Flatiron School'] |
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What is React Native?
React Native is a mobile development framework written in JavaScript. It uses React.js which is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It also has its own special components that know how to communicate with the native device’s platform so you can bui... | ['Mobile App Development', 'Flatiron School', 'React Native'] |
As part of Flatiron School’s Online Software Engineering Program you have to write a small Ruby gem with a CLI and some scraping, along with giving the user the option to display more info about one of their menu choices.
This is a short recount of my experience writing this gem.
As you progress through the curriculu... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Rubygems', 'Cli Gem', 'Cli'] |
This blog is sort of a continuation of my last blog, ActionView — Template — Error.
Here’s a little recap from that blog:
A couple of days ago, I was contacted by a recruiter about a position for web developer. This lead to the first round of an interview for the job position on the phone. We went over the usual ques... | ['Flatiron School', 'Git Remote Set Url Origin'] |
After graduating from university, like many of my peers, I had two tasks at hand — to “find what makes me tick” and to make sure what makes me tick also pays for my student loans.
A few months later, I was hired at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work in fundraising. MIT exposed me to all the incredible t... | ['Computers', 'Programming', 'Flatiron School', 'Marketing'] |
Understanding sorting algorithms concepts is essential for everyone who wants to become a programmer. There are already over 20 algorithms for sorting.
Insertion Sort is one of the most important ones.
It is not considered as fast as quicksort, heapsort or merge sort. However, it has a few advantages: simple implemen... | ['Programming', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Insertion Sort'] |
ORM — Object-Relational Mapping
Now, what does that exactly mean? Another way to describe ORM, is that by using this technique, you can create a “virtual object database”, which can be used and manipulated from within the object-oriented language (as phrased by an article on Sitepoint).
Because data is handled differ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Object Relational Mapping', 'Programming', 'Orm'] |
Rails is rife with magic. Form helpers, in particular the ability to build forms directly linked to Ruby objects, are one piece of Rails magic that I had a hard time wrapping my head around.
This is a quick guide to setting up nested forms in rails.
First — what is a nested form? It is, as it’s name suggests, a form ... | ['Development', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Flatiron School', 'Nested Forms'] |
Introduction
For my module 2 final project, I used Northwind’s SQL Database to find out ways to improve its profitability. I performed hypothesis testing to uncover the effect of certain variables that would help Northwind either decrease costs or increase revenue. Throughout this blog post, I will look at the effect ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Hypothesis Testing', 'T Test', 'Business', 'Data Science'] |
Introduction
The most difficult of most projects is arriving at a model with significant and efficient predictability. If you are using an OSEMiN model, the modeling stage is the culmination of hard work and long hours obtaining, scrubbing and exploring the data. During this first stages, it is common to have dealt wi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Flatiron School', 'Regression', 'Feature Selection', 'Crossvalidation'] |
The inputs are in blue font and the outputs are in black. As you can see from the image above, the Excel models were very spartan in terms of UI and didn’t look very user friendly (due to a combination of performance concerns and the fact that it was an internal tool for analyst, not a customer facing product). I wishe... | ['Investing', 'Flatiron School', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Dashboard'] |
Getting Started
First step was to create the Rail’s program by writing:
'rails new rails-spotify --database=postgresql'
By running the above command, you can create all the basic Ruby files required to start writing the application. By setting the database as PostgreSQL, you are letting Rail’s know to use PostgreSQL... | ['Spotify', 'Coding', 'Music', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
As an actuary, I believe our work and skill set very much overlaps with what I understand to be those of a ‘data scientist’. We typically work with (very) large sets of data to build analyses and models to ‘predict’ what’s going to happen. For example, a traditional role in health insurance actuarial sciences is predic... | ['Data Science', 'Flatiron School'] |
Do discounts have a statistically significant effect on the number of products customers order? If so, at what level(s) of discount?
Northwind Database Schema
OVERVIEW
The Northwind database contains the sales data for a fictitious company called Northwind Traders, which imports and exports specialty foods from arou... | ['Flatiron School', 'Hypothesis Testing', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Sqlite'] |
Did you know that at least every fourth American is a person with a disability? Or, that globally, there are at least a billion people with disabilities? And, although there is no data available regarding the number of programmers with disabilities, the estimates show that one in every 200 developers is blind. Why is i... | ['Ruby', 'Web Development', 'Flatiron School', 'Accessibility'] |
Introduction
At the start of any project, it is useful to have a clear framework to not deviate from the main objective, find the most efficient solution to a given problem. As more projects are developed, it is clearer to see what data science process fits the most with our own personal preferences and way of work. S... | ['King County', 'Data Science', 'Flatiron School', 'Eda'] |
For any teacher, parent, or student in America today, it has become clear that the world of K-12 education is encountering a reckoning. Teachers deciding between in-person instruction or online learning feel like they are rolling the dice on an uncertain future. Parents and students are concerned with the apathy and sl... | ['Education', 'Technology', 'Flatiron School'] |
So… the big question. Why did I decide to study Software Engineering? Or, why did I leave my super cushy and comfortable and EXTREMELY high paying bar-tending job? The caps were sarcasm.. Let’s get into it.
I actually don’t mind tending bar. I had been in food service for 6 years. I was good at it. I made people happy... | ['Flatiron School', 'Life Change', 'Programming', 'Noob', 'Software Development'] |
For my final portfolio project, I created an app called I Had That! to allow users to keep a collection of childhood toys they had. Seeing retro toys takes you back in time and you start reminiscing about the fun times playing with your toys. In the early 80s, I had a Commodore VIC-20 (not as cool as the higher-end Com... | ['Redux', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'React'] |
Last portfolio project. It’s been a long, fruitful ride. In this post, I will outline the steps needed to design, build, and deploy hario. This project feels like the epitome of “if you want to learn how to build it, you have to build it”. I bumped into more obstacles than ever, but ultimately got through them.
If you... | ['Rails Api', 'Flatiron School', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Ruby on Rails'] |
Making the Move from Expert to Novice
Seth Maisel
“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and t... | ['Flatiron School', 'Imposter Syndrome', 'Bootcamp', 'Beginning Code'] |
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A question that I had for a long time was “What is a data structure?”. Well, it turns out that data structures are an important concept and one that every developer should be familiar with. So in this article I will attempt to answer that question for myself and any others who happen to b... | ['Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Linked Lists', 'Data Structures'] |
Graphic design. Thats whats on the menu today.
Design. It’s everywhere, makes you want to buy things, see things, experience things. It the join table between you, and the company. In my first few days of being a collegiate design student, my teacher told me that the average consumer will see 2000 ads a day but will a... | ['Graphic Design', 'Flatiron School', 'Homework', 'Blog'] |
Instructional Guide To “Modernizing” Your Application
Gece = Night | Gunduz = Day (Language: Turkish)
Most websites have a switch that toggles between “light” and “Dark” mode, this is an unspoken rule for modern day applications. Now, I can go into a lecture about why it was created and how it’s beneficial but let’s ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'CSS', 'Dark Mode'] |
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So I didn’t pass the code challenge yesterday. Maaaan, what a blow to the ego! We’re working with Ruby on Rails, and I really thought I had all the concepts down. Funny thing is, I did have them down. I just couldn’t relieve myself of the pressure that comes with these tests.
Anxi... | ['Failure', 'Flatiron School', 'Imposter Syndrome'] |
Applications built with rails
How does active record relate to ruby
I’ll go on record saying Active Record is a spectacular break-through in Ruby’s ability for application development. Active Record is a ruby GEM and has to be installed before you will be granted access to all the free functionalities pre-installed i... | ['Flatiron School', 'Technology', 'Rails', 'Learn', 'Activerecord'] |
This topic can have responses depending on the writers life and their outlook on code which is something that struck me as interesting when looking for the next topic to write about. Computers, for as smart as they are, can often be quite dumb as well when developing code. Due to this, you will often fail your first it... | ['Flatiron School'] |
Elements in React essentially describe what it is that you would like to see on the screen. For example, the following is an element in React:
const element = <h1>Hello, friends</h1>;
Now, what makes React elements different from elements rendered in the DOM? Simply put, React elements are objects that are computatio... | ['Flatiron School', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'HTML', 'Software Engineering'] |
Getty Images Stock Photo
Whether it’s Mr.Robot or a fictional hacking scene, it has always been an interesting topic for me. I decided to do some research on a particular cyber-attack called DDoS, and here is some basic information I found.
DDoS is a cyber-attack known to overwhelm a host or server and disrupting it ... | ['Flatiron School'] |
Source: Autodesk Research
I LOVE abstract thinking. Finding and applying patterns is how I turn data into information. By relying on summary statistics alone we can turn data into misinformation. We’ll look at some fun examples to (literally) illustrate the importance of looking at your total dataset, getting feedback... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Flatiron School', 'Autodesk'] |
Although these measures may be valid, self-reported information gathered from surveys is predictably unreliable. The questions and answers are both subjective. Michael Argyle et al. (1999) explains that the attainable data from surveys is unable to explain more than 15% of the variation in life satisfaction. This trans... | ['Flatiron School', 'Happiness', 'Data Science'] |
I was at a job; let’s not get it wrong it was a good job but at the end of the it was just that a job to make ends meet and nothing more. I had no pleasure in it and really every day let’s be honest i dreaded going to work everyday and I wanted a change. I wanted to go into IT work and I wanted to go into coding; but i... | ['Starting Over', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby'] |
Challenges: CSS
I opted out of using stylesheets because I wanted become more familiar with the CSS Grid Layout, which seemed quite challenging and counter-intuitive at first.
Solution: I found the step-by-step CSS Grid Layout Crash Course by Traversy Media, which is freely available on Youtube, particularly helpful ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Productivity', 'React', 'Single Page Applications', 'Bootcamp Experience'] |
The component concept is something quite simple to understand, basically it is a visual software element that has its own state, receives some properties and implements its own rendering logic. There are several different kinds of components and can be differentiated based on their behavior and type.
In this blog I wi... | ['Flatiron School', 'React Redux', 'Beginner', 'Single Page Applications', 'Reactjs'] |
Building Full stack application
Another Phase to the journey in learning software development has completed. Learned more about building backend and create our own API implementing Ruby , Active Record and Rack.
This phase was more challenging as we have to build our own API and fetch that API to our frontend using r... | ['Phase 3 Project', 'Flatiron School', 'Amazon', 'Ruby', 'Software Development'] |
Last but not least in my trip around the Product Management Venn diagram is the Business area! From the PM side of the equation, this often looks like reporting on an implemented feature or product outcomes. In some companies, the business area can also be the source of new feature ideas and “north star” (the main metr... | ['Flatiron School', 'Music', 'Orchestra', 'Product Management', 'Software Engineering'] |
Tableau was founded in January 2003. It was an academic spin-off by Christian Chabot, Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte where they took an idea from an academic paper they had been working on. It was a simple idea and it was ‘What if you had a tool that allowed you to view your business data in a visual way?’ At that time,... | ['Python', 'Flatiron School', 'Tableau'] |
As rains from Tropical Storm Henri give the city streets knee-deep with water, delays throughout the subway, and the ever-present flash flood warning, let’s take a minute, take a breath and stroll through this easy Leetcode, as we find the highest altitude.
The problem reads…
There is a biker going on a road trip. Th... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Algorithms', 'JavaScript', 'Leetcode'] |
Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich from Pexels
As my Flatiron journey nears conclusion, I find myself thinking of the things I wish I’d known to avoid pitfalls and improve on this incredible opportunity. So here’s a list of seven cherry things that I believe will improve your Flatiron experience.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Becau... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Technology', 'Bootcamp', 'Students'] |
By: Josh Woodworth
My girlfriend and I on our trip to California/Tahoe before school started
The First mile is always an intimidating task, whether it be for a marathon or a simple walk, but for Software Engineering Bootcamp that first mile takes on a completely different meaning.
It is the beginning of something mo... | ['Journey', 'Flatiron School', 'Software Engineering', 'Career Change'] |
Android Bot
When I first started programming, I came across a programming tool called Android Studio. This was based on Java, and it allows you to create Android applications, for smartphones and tablets. The screen below represents the software version you want to use in order to build your app, for example, Android ... | ['Android App Development', 'Flatiron School'] |
By: Daniel Sanchez and Jackson Prince
Project Overview
Trek is an adventure RPG written in Ruby, employing ActiveRecord and SQLite to create, read, update and delete data. The game consists of five parts:
Sign in or Sign up . Choose your character. Use “currency” to buy items at a Walmart in preparation for your jou... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Programming', 'Games', 'Sql'] |
Over the past week and a half, after catching up on a few lessons I had backlogged, I was able to start my very first CLI Ruby program from start to finish and I feel very proud and accomplished! In the beginning of 2019, I tried to self teach myself how to code and after 3 months I couldn’t get anything to work. After... | ['Programming', 'Flatiron School'] |
For my first project at Flatiron School, we were asked to build a CLI gem by scraping two levels of data while creating objects (not hashes). On day one, I got everything in my first level scrape working. By day three, I realized I had to refactor all of the code I wrote to store it into an object. After many temper ta... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Women In Tech', 'Seattle'] |
What is GatsbyJS? Created in 2015, founders Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat wanted to create a technology that would make building websites and web apps faster.
In short, Gatsby is a lightning fast, static site generator that utilizes ReactJS and GraphQL. Gatsby allows developers to get started on new projects quickly an... | ['Flatiron School', 'Web Development', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
As stated in my last post, I have been discussing Big O and how we can refactor our code to make it the most efficient it can be. To take a look at that post, click here.
Anyways, one common pattern we can use when trying to solve a Big O problem is to Divide and Conquer (DnC). What is DnC? When you divide and conquer... | ['Big O', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript'] |
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Problem:
Say your making a space shooter and want to play the sound of a gun firing while your spaceship is shooting. Or even something as simple as playing a walking sound while you walk. This is fairly simple and common in videogames. But there’s a bit of manual setup required. ... | ['Game Development', 'Phaser 3', 'JavaScript', 'Flatiron School'] |
Disclaimer: I went to the Access Labs campus in Brooklyn. It’s my understanding that the operation of all of the campuses across Flatiron are similar, but keep in mind that this is my experience at this particular campus.
I’m now in Module Five of the Flatiron Bootcamp. I’ve had twelve weeks of grueling coding experie... | ['Software Engineering', 'Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Bootcamp'] |
“© 2013–2019 Docker, Inc. All rights reserved.”
You are working on a project and you send your code to a colleague or friend to look it over. They run their analysis and it turns out your results came out differently! Issues like this can arise when your machine and your colleagues are running a different OS, differen... | ['Containers', 'Flatiron School', 'Docker', 'Data Science Education', 'Data Science'] |
Feelings: The Blog
My name is Conrad Robinson and I’m a current student at Access Labs powered by Flatiron School. Every Friday we have something called “Feelings” where we all sit in a circle and individually speak on how we’re feeling about the program or just life in general. As I’m closing in on the end of Module ... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Students'] |
STEP ONE:
Okay! So let’s add validations to our model the user will be able to create or modify. Head over to app/models and open the .rb file of the model we will be adding validations to.
class Dog < ApplicationRecord
validates :name, presence: true
validates :age, presence: true
end
These validations confirm t... | ['Ruby', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Flatiron School', 'Forms'] |
Changing Gears: How I Decided to Study Programming and Change My Life
I’ve been in tech and worked with developers since 2013, but whenever they talked programming, I felt like I suddenly was on a different planet where people spoke other languages. I had no idea what they were talking about.
It was ironic because I ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Career', 'Bootcamp'] |
Image by sethJreid from Pixabay
I’d like to go more in depth on something I briefly touched on in my previous blog (React Technical Interview) and that’s the lifecycle of a React component. The definition of lifecycle in Webster’s dictionary is:
“a series of stages through which something (such as an individual, cult... | ['Flatiron School', 'React', 'Lifecycle', 'Components', 'Software Engineering'] |
When working in Ruby, there are many instances where one will need to retrieve or get the value of an instance variable. This can be done with the getter method. Without the getter method, you can not retrieve the value of an instance variable from outside the class it was instantiated from.
Here is an example without... | ['Flatiron School', 'Getters And Setters', 'Ruby'] |
Objects are pretty handy data structures that consist of a key and value pairs. What they can contain can differ however, a key can be a symbol or a string while the value can be any data type.
“animals” is the object. The animal names are the “key” while the integers are the “value”
Sometimes there may be some occur... | ['Javascript Method', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Objects', 'Javascript Tips'] |
Async JS, wait what?
Mod 4 was definitely different. Challenging but in a good way. We welcomed front end development (Javascript!) complementing our knowledge of Ruby on Rails (a backend framework). What this means is that we can now build full stack web applications: starting with setting up our server side code, co... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'API', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development'] |
So how do you transition from your regular life to a full-time online boot camp?
A lot of folks in my cohort have quit or are about to quit their full-time jobs. I haven’t had an official full-time job since before my teens were born. Instead, I have a lot of little daily tasks that suck up my day.
I do some admin wo... | ['Teens', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Pseudocode', 'Parenting'] |
So the first week of Flatiron was great. Almost all of the assignments and labs for the week were included in the pre-work, so if you finished all of the pre-work before starting, you just had a few new labs to do. I found those relatively easy.
I’m nervous about what’s next but for a few sweet moments, I felt like th... | ['Programming', 'Flatiron School', 'Bubble Sort', 'Ruby'] |
For my first project at Flatiron School’s Full-Stack Web-Dev program, I built a Karaoke Command Line Application. Using Ruby’s ActiveRecord Gem, I was able to setup the relations between my models’ many-to-many relationships. It looked something like this:
A playlist has many songs and songs belong to many playlists. ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Web Development', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Activerecord'] |
It’s been two weeks since the start of class here at the Flatiron school’s software engineering immersive, and we’ve already started using Ruby’s very powerful ActiveRecord module that allows developers to map object relations to databases using very little code.
While working on a mini-project to get accustomed to th... | ['Flatiron School', 'Software Development', 'Ruby', 'Full Stack', 'Activerecord'] |
Along my journey to becoming a programmer, I’ve spent my fair share of time typing commands into the terminal window and navigating through the output. After a conversation with my instructor at Flatiron School regarding terminal commands, I realized how little I actually knew about how my terminal works.
What’s the d... | ['Flatiron School', 'Bash', 'Fonts And Aliases', 'Terminal', 'Function'] |
Song
new
Takes in three arguments: a name, artist, and genre.
The way I was able to complete this first lab was to first create a class called Song.
class Song
end
than define initialize to three arguments — (name, artist, and genre)
I define initialize and set it to three arguments. The reason we set three argu... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Programming', 'Codingbootcamp', 'Software Engineering'] |
What were we were taught prior to project 1
Every Monday morning we are given 2 Sections of work, each section contained about 10 lessons on average. Each lesson took an average of 25 minutes to complete. Every 2 sections contained multiple labs and a project to demonstrate understanding. Throughout the week there are... | ['Housing Prices', 'Data Science', 'Flatiron School', 'Bootcamp'] |
source: react-js.us
If you’ve worked in React you’ve heard of the illusive Virtual DOM, but what actually is it, and how is it different from the regular DOM?
To start let’s take a step back and look at the DOM.
“The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for HTML and XML documents. It represents the... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'React', 'Programming', 'Virtual Dom'] |
Until we get to doing Object Oriented Programming, we haven’t actually utilised the true capabilities of the ruby language (or any language for the matter). At the start of my bootcamp journey, this is something I found quite tricky to wrap my head around. Here I outline certain things that have stuck to me about this ... | ['Object Relationships', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'London Tech', 'Programming'] |
For my capstone project at Flatiron, I wanted to see if I could predict whether someone has a specific mental health illness based on their posts about things unrelated to their mental health. My background before becoming a data scientist was in the mental health field, so I wanted to combine my new skills with my pre... | ['Flatiron School', 'Data Science', 'Mental Health', 'Python', 'Keras'] |
It was really challenging for me to come up with a CLI project at the beginning. I wanted to build a CLI Gem that lists all the football clubs across the world and provides roster information for each team based on user selection. And guess what? That didn’t happen due to lack of free API sources. All the API sources t... | ['First Project', 'Rubygems', 'Flatiron School'] |
Debugging. It’s an unavoidable part of life as a programmer. Whether you have 15 days of programming experience, or 15 years, at some point you’re going to run into bugs in your program. Thankfully, there are several debugging tools at our disposal to help make our lives a little easier as we’re coding.
With that bein... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Pry', 'Rubygems', 'Debugging'] |
Hello, my name is Dmitriy Malayev, and I am a current Software Engineering student at Flatiron School.
There are numerous reasons why I choose to pursue Software Engineering at Flatiron. The main reason is that my nephew has graduated from the same program at the same school and he had a rewarding experience, addition... | ['Flatiron School', 'Web Development', 'Learning To Code', 'Bootcamp', 'Careers'] |
Last weekend i attended my first hackathon.
Hackathon? Yep, hacking + marathon.
Basically, a hackathon is a competition where groups of people are formed to come up with a problem, an idea (i.e. a solution for that problem), and then try to realize a code-based (hence: hacking) solution.
This all goes down in a pred... | ['Hackathons', 'Flatiron School', 'Bootcamp'] |
Unfortunately, “pest control” is part of the job description. Wether you like it or not. THERE. WILL. BE. BUGS. They’re like these pesky vile little creatures that can be difficult to get rid of and when you do, before you know it, there goes another one. It can be a very daunting experience to deal with. Luckily! With... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Pry', 'Debugging', 'Code'] |
When undertaking a data science research project, it’s no secret that there is profound value to process when taking on visualization challenges. The use of a design workflow (what visualizations and why?) and purpose diagram (whats my starting question? What do I want to have communicated?) are critical tools for maki... | ['Flatiron School', 'Curiosity', 'Data Science Training', 'Audience Engagement', 'Projects'] |
For my Javascript frontend and Rails backend project I decided to do a single page assessment test application. The app would scroll through a series of questions, collect the answers into an array and save them to the database. Then a admin/user can view all the results and calculate the scores when needed.
BACKEND:
... | ['Single Page Applications', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Learning'] |
We’ve recently had to create a content management system, using CRUD and MVC functionality. We could track anything important to us, so I decided to track all my hikes, as I been wanting a simple way to track them. The functionality is pretty simple, a person signs up, they are able to create a new hike. They can edit ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Sinatra', 'Sinatra Project'] |
For my Ruby on Rails project, I decided to make a Dungeons and Dragons character creator. In the app you can create a user account. A user can create a character, and an adventure. An adventure is like a group of users that are playing together. From adventure you can create a campaign, which is the actual story that t... | ['Learning To Code', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby'] |
Exploratory Data Analysis With Movies
Photo by GR Stocks on Unsplash
As a part of the Flatiron School bootcamp requirements, we are required to complete a project at the end of each learning module that demonstrates our ability to apply what we’ve learned.
The prompt for the first project is as follows:
Microsoft w... | ['Flatiron School', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Pandas', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Thank you Flatiron School
Well here I am, 5 months later and I’m about to pass my final assessment and graduate from the Software Engineering Program at Flatiron School. I proved it to myself that I could do it, especially with my husband being deployed all through it. Tackling 60–80 hour weeks with a one year old and... | ['Gratefulness', 'Flatiron School', 'Thank You'] |
At this point, we should take a moment to pat ourselves on the back. We’ve got a game being generated entirely from code, the projectile moves and we can control the paddle; we’ve accomplished a lot! In this article, we’ll be working on detecting collisions between the projectile and other elements in the game.
It mig... | ['Game Development', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Tutorial', 'Software Development'] |
INTRODUCTION
In this notebook, we will be training spaCy NER to identify DATASET entities from a body of text , a task known as named-entity recognition (NER). NER is a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to extract entities of interest.
DATA SOURCE
This project uses dataset from the Kaggle competitio... | ['Coleridge Initiative', 'Flatiron School', 'NLP', 'Kaggle Competition', 'Spacy Ner Train Python'] |
I have been learning Ruby for the past few months. I can honestly say it’s been one of the hardest undertakings I have ever taken on. From what I have learned from Ruby so far it is a very useful and powerful programming language that can be used to build a fully functional application in minutes. This is especially tr... | ['Magic', 'Flatiron School', 'Code', 'Rails'] |
It’s a question I get ask a lot by family members, and friends. In all honestly I decided to learn this craft was because I love and enjoy problem solving. Hello my name is Javier Fasciano and I recently joined Flatiron school online for software engineer which asked the same question a lot of us get asked. Why did you... | ['Flatiron School', 'Why', 'Learning To Code', 'Games', 'Software Engineering'] |
When I was laid off from my video editing job, I found myself stuck in trying to get back into full time employment. The next year was sustained through a combination of unemployment checks and small income from my freelance and contract work. It soon dawned on me that there were very few paths upwards, so I began thin... | ['Flatiron School', 'Software Engineering'] |
For Day 5, you are asked to use parse through a string of 10 characters which point to a specific seat on a plane. The airplane has 128 rows and 8 seats per row. The first seven characters, made up of F’s and B’s, identify the row of the seat and the last three characters, made up of L’s and R’s identify the seat in th... | ['Advent Of Code 2020', 'Flatiron School', 'Algorithms', 'JavaScript', 'Advent Of Code'] |
I’ve been working on creating another website and trying to improve my front-end creativity and styling. I’m using this blog to write down and share some of the things I’ve learned recently.
background-blend-mode
Using CSS blend modes is a great way to unify the look of the content across your website. It also enable... | ['Front End Development', 'Flatiron School', 'CSS'] |
Day One: Saturday
The first thing I noticed about thanks to this challenge was how much more I could do in a day than study, eat, workout, and sleep. It started with a text from my friend. “Hey, do you want to grab dinner this coming Friday?”. Immediately, I started thinking about how much studying I’ll have to do on ... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Personal Development', 'Codingbootcamp', 'Mental'] |
One of the biggest hurdles one has to cross when creating applications with vanilla JavaScript is maintaining the state of information that is relevant to your application while a user interacts with it.
My Application
In my Bulletin Board web application there are are many different “bulletins” that can be selected ... | ['State Management', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Vanilla Javascript'] |
One more time I’m here for my second Blog Post Sinatra project for Flatiron School. In this project I have a lot of fun, this is my first own project made from scratch. When we finish the CLI project I was excited for this moment to come, I love web development and the fact that I was able to make my first Web app from... | ['Web Development', 'Flatiron School', 'Sinatra', 'Ruby'] |
My Process
Understanding the Problem
Before starting to code, lets restate the problem. I need to create a function that will tell me if my two string inputs string1 and string2 are anagrams of each other. If they are anagrams my function must return true if they are not anagrams, my function must return false. My st... | ['Algorithms', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript', 'Anagram'] |
Project week at Flatiron was full of collaboration, trying out new workflow habits, creativity, and of course, building a project. We were tasked to use our new learning of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build an app. My partner and I made a pretty simple and adorable wildflower identifier app, Wildflower.
Wildflower App... | ['Flatiron School', 'Beginner', 'JavaScript', 'CSS', 'Modal'] |
To properly begin, then, a disarmingly simple question: what is neuroscience? The unified, age-old study of the brain, as begun by Erasistratus and Herophilos in ancient Alexandria? Well, no. The OED’s entry for the singular ‘neuroscience’ reveals youth, ambiguity and plurality — the ‘brain’ isn’t even mentioned, and t... | ['Flatiron School', 'Philosophy', 'Neuroscience', 'Programming', 'Literature'] |
Herrrrrrrre’s Jamie!
Scrum is something that will often come up during your job searches. I’m sure you’ve seen the banal statement on many a linkedin message from creepy recruiters, “we practice Scrum methodology”.
Outline of the Scrum framework
Scrum is an agile framework used mostly in software development, which ... | ['Agile', 'Flatiron School', 'Scrum'] |
What it looks like to use threads in Ruby
According to the Ruby docs a program that requires multiple “threads” of execution is a good candidate for the Thread class.
Hmm… maybe this would work for having music that plays in the background. The Thread class is Ruby’s way of implementing concurrent programming.
So wh... | ['Programming', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Blog'] |
For this project, I incorporated javascript methods into my exisiting Rails project, titled Sync. Here is the link to my github repo.. I duplicated the repo and retitled it to Sync-v2.
I printed out the requirements and had it next to me while I was working on the project. So do not get stuck! Focus on the requirement... | ['Ruby on Rails', 'JavaScript', 'Flatiron School', 'Github'] |
For my latest project at Flatiron School, I was tasked to make a single-page website with a JavaScript front-end and a Ruby on Rails back-end. Our back-end would work as our own API that we would fetch from in our front-end.
My project idea was to create a dog rating app. I was inspired by WeRateDogs® on Twitter and w... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'API', 'Twitter'] |
My Experience, Mod-by-Mod
Mod 1: Basically a continuation of the prework. Oh this isn’t so bad! If it keeps being like this, I can handle it. It’s definitely not as stressful as they said. It got a little bit more rushed during the second week, but I was able to prepare for and pass the code challenge on the first try... | ['Coding', 'Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'JavaScript', 'Bootcamp Experience'] |
Objects Relationships
In the first week of my course at Flatiron School, I have learned three types of relationships that objects can have with each other: ‘one-to-one’, ‘one-to-many’, and ‘many-to-many’. As an example of ‘many-to-many’ relationships, let’s begin with the idea of establishing a music band that wants t... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'Many To Many Relationship', 'Programming', 'Object Oriented'] |
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