Hello! As part of what I think is probably the classic “start getting to the end of Flatiron program and realize you don’t know enough basic CS concepts to pass an interview” stage of learning, I am going to talk about Heap Sort. First of all, it’s similar to Selection…

When coding, a person is using something known as a programming “language.” It comes with its own keywords, syntax, and best practices for comprehension. However, having used Ruby and JavaScript, I started to think about how lucky it was that programming languages I was familiar with tended to look a…

For each module a student completes at Flatiron School in Chicago, they are required to produce one blog post. In keeping with this, I recently published an article on various generators you can use in Rails. However, shortly thereafter I began completing challenges on the site CodeWars (thanks Ramazan for…

Ruby on Rails is a Ruby library that has a lot of useful methods and generators. However, these can only be used if you 1. Know about them, and 2. Know what information you need to put in to use them. Plus, as a bonus, it helps if 3. You…

While studying at Flatiron School, we use a test-based learning method. While this has a lot of benefits (which I may cover in a later blog post), it does limit creativity a little bit. As a specific example, in one lesson we were asked to build a BankAccount class. Initially…