The Journey: Learning to Code One Day at A Time.

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This is the story of how I learned to program.

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Apr 27, 2018

Spring Cleaning for the bootcamp

So I’m getting ready to start Hack Reactor’s bootcamp and I figured I’d get my machine re-vitalized. Today I performed a clean installation of macOS and started everything from scratch. This means I also need to set up my dev environment. Iv’e chosen to scrap my old…

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Apr 12, 2017

Back to Ruby

It had been a long while since I touched any Ruby code. For the past 6 months I had been completely focused on Javascript (vanilla, jQuery, Angular, Firebase). Now its time to get my Ruby shirt on. When I first started on Ruby this week again it took a while for me to get used to it. Maybe 1 hour and…

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Mar 21, 2017

Midterm Assessment Completed

So I completed my midterm or midway assessment in Bloc in my first try. I scored 9.5/10. What this means is that Bloc is confident in granting me the “get a job” or “get your money back” warranty. This means that if I don’t get a job within six months of graduation from Bloc…

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Mar 16, 2017

Hoisting in Javascript

Reviewing the fundamentals of Js I found a topic that was very unclear. Upon reading various sources, specially this source by Joshua Clanton, and speaking to my mentor everything slowly started to fall into place.

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Mar 14, 2017

No parenthesis at the end of .length?

I realized that all this time I had been using a Javascript property:

array.length

and not realising it didn’t have the parenthesis at the end. So I went out and found this stackoverflow answer to my question. It…

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Sep 7, 2016

Great learning experience with JS Koans

I am going through the JS centric frontend of my course at bloc. My mentor gave me the Javascript Koans resource and its helping me learn. So far in my curriculum I had felt I needed some extra practice. JS Koans was the answer.

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Aug 25, 2016

Git Auto-completion

The shell’s auto-completion feature for directory and file names is amazing. Why couldn’t this also be possible for git? It is very cumbersome to write branch names over and over.

I searched online and found Bash git completion. I followed their guide and got git…

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Jul 27, 2016

Portfolio

Today I started to work on my portfolio. It was way harder than I thought. Specifically the case studies on the projects I have completed. I guess it has its similarities to writing a resume, and I don’t write resumes every day. Anyways I’ve written the rough drafts for my present projects! Score.

David’s Portfolio

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Jul 20, 2016

Alexa skills published!

So today early in the morning about at 3 am my three skills were certified by Amazon and made live. I am excited to try them out once I get my Amazon Echo. I am not sure why all the communication that revolved around the certification of my skills came at those odd hours. I think its…

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Jul 5, 2016

The first post

I started trying programming a little more than 2 years ago. Per github my first commit was on may 7th, 2014. About 2 weeks after my wedding and four years after I obtained my Bachelors of Science in Business Administration @ Boston University. Although I went to school for Finance I’ve always loved anything…