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Today I am going to talk a littler bit about my recent experience building a weather app. I chose a weather app because I am an avid skier/snowboarder and figured “Hey that is something I use frequently lets give it a go.” Unbeknownst to me a weather app is a…

I’ve almost made it to the end of my Flatiron Software Engineering Course. Over the past 8 months, I’ve spent hours every week pouring over lectures, practicing labs, and writing code, and now I’m finally at the final project. This phase focused on React and Redux, and I have to…

What is a Controlled Form? If you are new to React, you’ll soon find out that it is important to learn how to use controlled components. Like any coding language for a novice programmer (AKA me), it was difficult to learn but very useful (and awesome!). So what are controlled components? controlled components are components…

Hi! This blog comes to you in 3 parts- to show the before and after of turning this ^ diagram into an easy-to-use quiz.

I found this project quite challenging. Without the help of lab instructions, or any tests to work with made it more difficult than anything I had done so far. I was not completely comfortable with scraping data after the scraping labs that I had done. It took me quite a while to work out and fully understand how to scrape the correct data that I needed for my app. I had to remove one of my classes as making my app loop itself was proving difficult and was actually more complicated than the specifications of the project asked for.

In one of my previous stories, “Using a Fetch API…To Make Cocktails”, I had talked about my very first project at Flatiron. This time, I’m going to be talking about my second project… Project Requirements: The API: Just like my first project had required, I had to use an API. This time, I chose…

I hope this is a useful reference for my fellow Flatiron classmates or anyone working on a project with Ruby and JavaScript. A simple comparison table for those already familiar with both languages:

If you were to ask me 10 months ago if I knew anything about coding, it would be a simple, “no.” But now? I just built a web app with my own API using Rails, and React/Redux for my frontend. That is so crazy to me! …

To start this off, repetition is key, especially when learning new languages, new syntax, and overall new ways of how to properly use a language. …