Where to begin? I began my self-paced, remote bootcamp with FlatIron on September 24th, 2018. I begin my first job on a development team on December 27th, 2018. It seems like so long ago, but this is how it happened.
Now that I have finally made it to Sinatra, I’m getting a much more wholistic picture of what an application is like under a MVC framework. Prior to this point I have been dealing exclusively with the the back-end - whether that be ruby, ActiveRecord, or sqlite3 - or with the front-end (JavaScript, HTML, CSS). There hasn’t really been an indication of how this would all be integrated and how everything would communitcate/pass data.
I’ve just recently finished my first portfolio project which was a lot of fun. I decided to scrape a page that ranks the top 100 startup companies. (GitHub Repo)
I struggled with the concept of self in Ruby for a little longer than necessary I believe. So, I wanted to add to the
I attempted to code in highschool around my sophmore year. It didn’t last too long. After picking up encyclopedia sized “C++ for Dummies book” I quickly decided that programming was not for me after having made it only around 20 pages in. It seemed like a different language (it was), and I made no attempt to find a simpler language (or even a website such as Codeacademy).