Tag Archives: portfolio
@gSchool Week 21
This week, we began holding Rails workshops for class deep dives with plenty of student participation in the learning process. The workshops have been extremely interactive with lots of time for Q and A, and have been a high point of … Continue reading
@gSchool Week 20
It’s interesting how the class structure has changed so much since gSchool started 20 weeks ago. Previously, most learning happened in group or pair settings. We still hold optional group activities on a daily basis (reviewing topics such as whiteboarding data model structures), … Continue reading
@gSchool Week 18
This delayed blog post was the casualty of a very busy week studying at gSchool leading up to a two-day assessment (two hours each day). The assessment is meant to give a general idea regarding how we’re progressing toward becoming junior … Continue reading
@gSchool Week 15
With just a few weeks remaining before graduation, we’re starting to feel the time crunch of how much learning needs to be accomplished before we’re set loose into the programming world. We’ve buckled down with plans to review or be introduced … Continue reading
@gSchool Week 9
You won’t hear it from me often, but the week flew by at gSchool. Focus was largely on building team-based CRUD Rails apps to manage media items (pictures as well as YouTube & Vimeo videos). A main intent was to acclimate us … Continue reading
Choosing & Getting Accepted into Programming Bootcamp
This post is intended to be a mini-guide for people at ground zero who have no idea where to start or how to go about getting into a programming bootcamp. The disclaimer is that I’m not an expert on the … Continue reading
Consequences
An unfortunate consequence of laser focus is that I will neglect to sleep. “Just a little bit more, and then I’ll go to sleep” the story goes. Two hours pass… then another hour. “Just ONE last thing, and then I’ll … Continue reading
Focus
A large reason for my years-long ‘hesitation’ to study programming harks back to high school memories of messing with an early version of MS-DOS. Memories of mindlessly typing messages at the computer on the teacher’s command, being bored silly, watching … Continue reading
Online Portfolio!
Inspired by @JenniferDewalt who’s building 180 websites in 180 days, I determined this weekend to complete an online portfolio of my Adobe Flash and Photoshop work. Once the domain name was purchased and I’d dealt with setting up the ftp (a real pain … Continue reading
Learning to Dance with Code
In the absence of excellence, sometimes perseverance leads to beauty. Here’s to witnessing those efforts in the meantime. May the spirit of the dancer inspire and lead me to a world beyond “hello”.
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