BekahHW

For years, when I was teaching college English, I would give students an assignment that had general guidelines and expectations, but they would need to come up with a topic. There were always tears. How could I expect them to...

I get a lot of messages on social media asking me about coding, what it is, how to get started, whether or not to do a bootcamp, and where to get started. The truth is we are all the hero...

A couple of months ago I wrote about the Coder’s Journey, and one of the most important parts of any journey is finding a mentor. This might be the person who hands you the sword to defeat the dragon or...

Once you understand variables, you’re ready to dive into classes and objects. A class, in simple terms, is like a blueprint for objects. I like to think of it as an overall storage center for things of a same type....

I’m building my way up to a personal project. But before I approach the project, I want to reinforce basic knowledge by going over what I’ve learned about Ruby and SQL so I can do what I want. For me,...

For my first solo project with Flatiron School, I had to create a CLI Ruby Gem where I scraped data from a website and went at least one level deep. Because I’m still in this weird space where I feel...

I hit the point in my Flatiron School curriculum where I had to step away from tutorials and do a project on my own. Nervous didn’t even begin to describe what I was feeling. On top of that, I had...