Cher-ing My Love of Front End DevelopmentWhen I was 12, I taught myself HTML & CSS so I could build online Cher shrines. I recall tinkering with my CherGirl website for hours —…Jul 18, 2020Jul 18, 2020
Container vs. Components in React ReduxFor the final project (!!!) at Flatiron School, we were asked to build a SPA app using React Redux with a Rails API. In the project…Apr 25, 2020Apr 25, 2020
Hoisting in JavaScriptThere are a lot of confusing concepts in JavaScript. As a newbie, hoisting has tripped me up a lot. I got caught up on variable scope…Mar 5, 2020Mar 5, 2020
Calling vs. Referencing in JavaScriptFor my JavaScript API / Rails back-end project at Flatiron School, I decided to create an app called Interviewr that gives new…Feb 22, 2020Feb 22, 2020
Ruby on Rails: Model Trouble<iframe src=”https://giphy.com/embed/11ATEuUzWlzMas" width=”480" height=”372" frameBorder=”0" class=”giphy-embed”…Dec 14, 2019Dec 14, 2019
Ensuring Users Can Only See What Belongs_To ThemFor my second coding project with the Flatiron School, I was tasked with creating an MVC, CRUD app using Sinatra.Oct 13, 2019Oct 13, 2019
How Coding is Like Building a TableA few weeks ago, my partner, a writer, asked me, “Is coding like anything you’ve done before?” At first, my response was writing. “You…Aug 14, 2019Aug 14, 2019
Surviving Your First CLI ProjectFor my first project at Flatiron School, we were asked to build a CLI gem by scraping two levels of data while creating objects (not…Aug 11, 2019Aug 11, 2019
Refactoring CodeBefore I even began coding, I was interested in the idea of editing, or refactoring, code to make it cleaner, prettier, and easier to read…Jul 31, 2019Jul 31, 2019
