I spent 17 years working in meat departments, I decided to quit retail and learn to code. I’m attending The Iron Yard Atlanta back end engineering course.
I’m into week six and we are starting rails. My initial impression is that the actual ruby code we will be writing is not that complicated. What will take some getting used to is the massive amount of methods we now have at our disposal as well as the database associations. Tonights assignment “shouldnt” be too…
It’s already week 5 and we are succesfully hacking the internets(somewhat). Our weekend assignment had us writing code that makes requests to github.com’s api and return statistics about a repositories contributors.
I’m a novice coder. To be exact I’ve been coding for about 3 and half weeks almost non-stop at The Iron Yard Atlanta. I’m also a first time blogger so I’m not going to be very ambitious with the quality of my posts. Mostly I’m going to tell the story of my time at TIY and share…