Mar 8, 2015Graduating From Code SchoolIt’s been a little while Medium. On Friday night I officially graduated from Makers Academy. For the last two weeks we have been hard at work on our final project. I was on team Snow Angels, working for a charity to build an automated system for managing their lovely volunteers…2 min read
Feb 28, 2015Ruby on RailsWe emerged from the Makerthon and went back to a more standard week of learning Rails. Our task for the week was to rebuild the Yelp website. I learnt more about the Model, View, Controller set up. …2 min read
Feb 18, 2015MakerthonIt was already time for the Makerthon! I didn’t feel ready going into the week. The prospect of completing a project from scratch in three days was daunting. We split into teams on Tuesday after voting for our favourite projects (they all sounded awesome so it was a difficult choice!)…2 min read
Feb 13, 2015Mocha, Chai, Java(script), Yorkshire?This week has been all about the hot beverages. Which is fine, because I am from Yorkshire, where tea solves everything. We moved on to looking at Node and web servers, which got me in a real muddle. I was trying to create an exact map of what I’d learnt…2 min read
Feb 1, 2015Look Mum, no divs!I decided to use my reading week to pursue more JavaScript. I designed a program that you can use before going to view a property to make sure you are fully prepared, ie what you should be looking for and why. …2 min read
Jan 24, 2015JavaScript & JQueryWe left Ruby behind this week. At first I was a little apprehensive as I was getting to grips with Ruby and Sinatra, and I’d been pleased with my Twitter clone program. …2 min read
Jan 21, 2015Chitter ChatterThis week it was time to move on to databases. After quite a few arguments with my laptop, we got PostgreSQL working, and then we were off! We spent the week making a bookmark manager application, and en route we got to play with SQL and BCrypt. In order to…1 min read
Jan 14, 2015Sinatra Doesn’t Know This DittyThis week we have been working on battleships for the web. We used the Sinatra framework as well as a new testing tool; Cucumber with a hint of Capybara (sounds appetising). We learnt how to use sessions and assign these to our users. It was a challenge to use two…2 min read
Jan 3, 2015Homework & GoalsI cannot believe it is 2015 already. I have been trying to make the most of our two week break, which is now coming to a close. I have experimented with a few different things: The code challenge was to make a takeaway app that allows a customer to view…2 min read
Dec 30, 2014You sunk my battleshipOur pairing challenge before we left for our Christmas break was to make a battleships game! After refreshing our memories on the rules and a mini trip down nostalgia lane, we launched into planning out our classes and methods. We had a great week, and I think we both learnt…1 min read
