Fun Ruby on Rails concepts that I just learned about Ruby on Rails was one of the first technologies I learned in my software engineering bootcamp. And ever since graduating, having been faced with multiple Rails technical interviews, I have been able to explore the extra, and perhaps under-appreciated, nuances…

Simple steps towards deploying your Rails or Node application on Heroku Deploying applications can be difficult and confusing. Therefore, I have simplified exactly what you need to do to correctly deploy your backend application to Heroku without too much stress. Step 1: Create an account on Heroku if you do…

How learning Node helps you to understand what is really happening Rails When I began learning Node during the first week of my capstone project, an instructor said to me “I am so glad you are learning Node because it really reinforces the conceptual understanding of Rails”. I was really…

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan. Today I graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering Immersive program, and as I reflect, I am beyond grateful for my experience. My life did a 180-flip on January 6th — from feeling lost and uninspired, to feeling…

React vs. Angular vs. Vue About 2 weeks ago, as part of our curriculum at the Flatiron School software engineering bootcamp, we graduated from vanilla JavaScript to using a frontend framework. The frontend framework that our instructors have chosen to teach us is React — which so far has presented…

How and when to use the switch statement in Javascript Before discovering the switch statement in Javascript, my code was littered with if else statements that were often difficult to understand in the context to which they were being applied. …

A quick summary of APIs and how they are used In the beginning weeks of my software engineering bootcamp at the Flatiron School, the word API was frequently tossed around by the instructors. Being so new to the world of tech, I had no clue what an API actually was…

The shift from health science to computer science Since 8th grade, when I had the opportunity to study the brain during an independent project, I fell in love with science, and especially with the health sciences. I just found the physiology of the human body to be incredible and complex…