Learning

I’ve stuck with the same project idea for the last three projects for a couple of reasons: I have a hard time coming up with ideas, I’m passionate about this idea, I wanted to clearly compare the processes of coding...

I’ve been committed to this coding thing for about a year now. I’m about to finish Flatiron School, spread my wings and fly through into the tech universe. There are a lot of things I’ve learned over the last year...

I’ll admit, when I started taking my Rails project and adding JavaScript, it broke my heart a little. I loved where I had left off and I had big plans for how to expand it. I could see it all...

So we have our models and associations, but before we really start to code, we need to get a better idea of what information these models will hold. When we look at the schema, it gives us a picture of...

I like to think of associations as relationships. How is this model related to that model? If they met each other on the street, and their friend was there, how would they describe their relationship? The most common relationships are...

When I woke up last January 1, I didn’t set out to code for a whole year with no days off. I didn’t set out to code in my car on long trips, to go to my first tech conference,...

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...