I graduated from my software engineering program, now what? I am certain I am not the only person to (repeatedly) ask myself that in the days or weeks following a bootcamp. Bootcamps are intense, provide some structure, allow you to follow a curriculum, and offer lectures that help you stay…

React is a library that utilizes JavaScript for “building user interfaces,” according to the docs (https://reactjs.org). A quick pause to explain that user interface (UI), simply put, is what happens when humans meet computers or other such devices. It is the interaction and/or communication that occurs when people connect with…

Creating my first Single Page Application(SPA) was a lesson and reminder in many key aspects of what it means to be a developer: the importance of planning, taking one step at a time (or starting with the minimal viable product), the power of your dev tools, living in debugging land…

*Mini Lesson in dependent: :destroy Included — For my third project at Flatiron as a Software Engineering Student, I built a Ruby on Rails web-application. Prior to this project I had created a Ruby command-line API and used the Sinatra framework to build a basic web-application. The Rails web app would be much more complex than the…

Sinatra Content Management System App is quite a mouthful and a bit confusing if you are not in tech, so let’s just say… “hey, I made a website!” With a great deal of preparation (labs, reading, study groups, etc.), plenty of time planning, and a ton of troubleshooting, I was…

I am sitting in my kitchen with my laptop. I need a change of scenery from my home-office, where I have spent enumerable hours finishing my first project as a software engineering student. After six weeks of learning Ruby, I built my first Ruby Gem, a Command Line Interface (CLI)…

I have been pondering the question, “Why did I decide to learn software engineering?” not just for the sole purpose of writing this blog post, but for myself and for the people in my life who are asking about my surprising direction change. For me, defining my motivation and my…