Things I learned on the job in the first 2 months — & — The Safe Operator The “&” symbol is a great substitute for (:try) if you already know about that method. It basically translates to, “if this exists, then call the following method on it”. In code, this may look something like this: chicken&.add_special_sauce If the chicken object is not…

I just got through a very unique technical interview, where there was no live coding, no white-boarding. It was a technical interview — technically. Here’s some of the questions they asked. How would you go about debugging a slow loading page? What a great question to ask as it can…

I went to coding bootcamp. There. I said it. And now — I’m job searching and realizing that there is so much I don’t know about code, about everything. …

Breadth First (Breath, first..) Search — You know how they say: “if you can teach it, then you really know what you’re talking about?” Well, let’s just say that’s what I’m trying to do today. So — edits and comments very welcome! Breadth First Search If you have not run into it already — breadth first search is an algorithm that visits nodes in a specific order — first the root node, then it’s adjacent nodes. In…

I was trying to pull this last piece together for my personal website, and I was trying to integrate all these new pieces of React that I had not quite tested or mastered yet. The information is definitely out there, but it exists in a lot of different places. …

When I was first introduced to linked lists, it seemed so incredibly abstract that I feel like my brain exploded. I also work with data structures differently than some other programmers. I’m an extremely visual and kinesthetic learner — I have to feel and touch something in order to work…

I learned so much completing this project, and realized there is so much left to learn. I wanted to document some of the technical things that I struggled with in the hopes that it would help others on their coding journey. Things I Struggled With: 1. Setting up the application 2. Creating…

A Rails Project Reflection Trying to find one place for all of this information seemed really difficult. …

At the completion of my Javascript project, I recall being most confused while trying to read documentation on drag and drop and having a very difficult time understanding it. …