Project Week 1 — MakersBnB

Last week was our first group project week. Our task was to design a version of ‘Air BnB’ where we should be able to display and list ‘spaces’, detailing name, availability date and description. As a user you should be able to list your spaces for other’s to hire, and you should be…

Pair Programming — my thoughts.

This is a very short blog concerning my views on pair programming. It lies at the heart of the Makers Academy philosophy and it the foundation of everything they do. I have practiced it for just under a month now, and whilst I overwhelmingly support it and would preach it’s…

Rock, Paper, Scissors. Makers Academy Challenge

Day 6. Pre-course. CL Mystery. Step 6

Ok, so im in Yorkshire, seeing a close friend, and I chose to try and ignore the panic gnawing at the back of my mind and enjoy the afternoon canoeing. I told Andy once home, I needed a few hours to do some study before heading out for dinner.

Day 26. Pre-course. Code Wars 100 challenge and GIT!

Ok, so I didn’t quite make it to a 100 score last night — even some of the basic tests still require me to do more research, esp. the more unusual (for me) ones involving blocks and case tests. So, I am determined to reach 100 by the end…

My week of JavaScript

I have had mixed emotions with regards to week 5 of Makers Academy. On one hand, extreme frustration in how after…

Where are all the walkthroughs??

This blog is a little delayed, however two weeks ago Makers deviated from their original course syllabus (Angular introduction) to try an alternative approach, whereby they removed all walkthrough’s and solutions, instead setting us some broad brush objectives to see how…

Day 3. Pre-course. GIT, GITHUB and version control

Day 2. Makers Academy. Main Course. Feature Testing & Unit Testing.

I feel exhausted! I feel as though I have been away for almost a week and it is only day 2! It has been a long time since I have been challenged to this extent academically for a while now. Yes, PRINCE 2 and APMP…

Wellbeing, self induced pressure and stress

I am changing the format of how I write my blogs to focus on just one thought, or one idea for the day. The thought will be undetermined and will arise from what I am feeling that particular day, what we covered in class from a technical perspective, or…