Day 51 – First Day of MEAN

I didn’t do much coding stuff over the weekend. Before coming in Monday morning, pretty much all I had done was install Node. When I got to the Dojo, instead of the usual morning algorithm whiteboarding session, we watched an algorithm documentary! It was all about how important algorithms are to our daily lives without us even noticing. It was a neat documentary, and it’s available on Netflix if anyone wants to check it out: The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms

Day 33 – Controllers and Views

Today marked the end of playtime in the console with the database and Active Record. Seeing as I’d gotten Rails models and ORM queries pretty much down, it was time to integrate with controllers and views. Rails is really nice in that you can generate so many pieces of the project with single line commands

Day 32 – Models and Queries with Active Record

Today started out with more recursive algorithms! I’m really liking recursion. The recursive versions of these old algorithms that we had been writing with for loops are coming out looking so much cleaner! For example, 

Day 13 – More Flask

I was late this morning due to it being super rainy all day. I suppose the biggest downside to an elevated train, especially for such an outdated one like Chicago’s “L,” is that it’s vulnerable to the elements. My train car got stuck waiting in between stops for around 20 minutes total this morning…

Day 12 – Getting deep in Flask

Morning algorithms were pretty good today. Nothing too exciting, but it seems like most people in the cohort are starting to get the hang of algorithmic thinking a lot better now. Seeing my cohort mates going from never having never seen a chunk of code before to being able to effectively

Day 11 – First Day of Python

Last week, instructor Fiaz told us to do “at least 80%” of the Fundamentals of Python section before getting in for our first day today. So just to be safe I did it all this weekend. It was pretty basic stuff, essentially just a review of the same concepts we’ve already been learning in JavaScript translated into Python.