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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…

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

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…

So this week our challenge has been to write a basic web application, using Ruby, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara, SQL, PostgreSQL and DataMapper…

Our week 3 weekend challenge was to design a rock paper scissors web application, using RSpec, Capybara, Sinatra and Ruby. The weeks…

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…

Over the course of the weekend, for the weekend 2 challenge, I was required to design a program to simulate a takeaway restaurant ordering…

After three days of working on object orientated programming and class extraction and trying to ‘refactor’ our method flow through…

Although Makers Academy was officially ‘stood down’ for the bank holiday, this didn’t stop the work and with predictable accuracy and…

After this weekend, the overriding thought I have above all else is how much I hate boris bikes and how much I hate Air Traffic Control…

Reference RSpec and TDD / BDD (I still am cloudy on the practical differences between the two) — it clearly isn’t going away, therefore I…

OK, so today has been hard as I had to return to Bristol for a hospital appointment, and simply being away for just one day really effects…

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…

I arrived in London last night and settled into my accommodation near Regents Park. I didn’t get the best of sleeps due to it being…

I’m moving to London tomorrow, ready to start with Makers Academy on Monday morning. I decided to leave packing until Sunday morning and…

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…

Finally! After 24 days of doing the pre-course work, I now have a completely free day to spend doing code wars challenges. It means I can…

Sorry for the delay in posting, I have experienced issues with the blogging platform Ghost. You only get a free trial for 2 weeks, then…

Ok, this is me!

This week has been tough! I followed through the session 2 video tutorials from ruby-kickstart and read the course notes, however the…

Ok, I have definitely underestimated the amount of work this course entails (if you are indeed a beginner, learning to code from Scratch) —…

Ok, I admit it, today has been the hardest so far during the short time I have been doing this course. I rattled through Session 1…

This was my last day of travelling on the train, so I knew I had 5 hrs travelling in order to get some work done. Unfortunately once again…