Matthew GiardinaAbstractionI recently watched this video by Tom Stuart about abstraction. I thought Mr. Stuart did a great job explaining the benefits of abstraction…Jul 1, 2015Jul 1, 2015
Matthew GiardinaLearning jQueryToday, my class at The Iron Yard started learning about jQuery. We had a lecture on it in the morning, then I spent the afternoon using…Jun 18, 2015Jun 18, 2015
Matthew GiardinaThe Javascript Event LoopAs part of our introduction to Javascript in The Iron Yard’s Ruby on Rails course, we watched this talk by Philip Roberts, titled “What the…Jun 17, 2015Jun 17, 2015
Matthew GiardinaTransitioning to Javascript after RubyAfter having focused almost exclusively on Ruby for the past month or so, we are now learning Javascript. Fortunately for me, I went…Jun 16, 2015Jun 16, 2015
Matthew GiardinaSOLID PrinciplesGood programmers write easily maintainable code, and in order to do so, they follow the five principles of SOLID. In this post, I’ll be…May 25, 2015May 25, 2015
Matthew GiardinaSimplicity vs. EasyI watched a talk by Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure about making programs simple. While most of the talk seemed a bit over my head, his…May 21, 2015May 21, 2015
Matthew GiardinaBattling Invisible MonstersToday I watched a talk by Julie Pagano about battling invisible monsters in tech, namely, imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is when…May 19, 2015May 19, 2015
Matthew GiardinaLearning How to Learn: Asking for HelpOne part of our homework assignment for my class was to watch this talk by Sasha Laundy about better ways to give and get technical help.May 18, 2015May 18, 2015
Matthew GiardinaFirst Week of Learning RubyThis week my class switched gears from learning HTML and CSS and started focusing on Ruby. In the prework for my course, I went through…May 17, 2015May 17, 2015
