Start of the Proper Course, Boris Bikes and Further Reading (Listening) We have entered our third week at Makers Academy now, which means we are starting on the course proper. The last two weeks have been mostly prep work to get us used to coding, working together and the general ways of working at Makers. … Continue reading Day 11 at Makers Academy →

More Test Driven Development Today we were tasked with working on the Student Directory challenge, creating a basic app that runs in the terminal. Luckily for me I had already completed it on Day 8 as part of some extra work I had been doing. Because of this I took the chance to go off … Continue reading Day 10 at Makers Academy →

The Blog (and Quines) Today is a little quieter on the coding front. Having finished the challenges and extra work we've been given, I've been left with some time to consider some other things that we've been advised to work on. This blog for example, something I'd never really considered doing before, but is apparently … Continue reading Day 9 at Makers Academy →

Pseudocode and More Ruby In the morning of Day 8 we had a workshop with one of the coaches to talk about Pseudocode. Basically it is planning out exactly how your code should work before you start coding. Very useful for when you have something complex, planning it in this way will give you step … Continue reading Day 8 at Makers Academy →

Finished Ruby Mastery and Koans I came in on Day 7 determined to get Chapter 9 done. I had comparatively flown through the first 8, so this was really annoying me. I decided I should start again. However I didn't start again from scratch, I know which parts of my code worked, and I knew … Continue reading Day 7 at Makers Academy →

The Roadblock Day 6 started off alright. I picked up where I had left off on Friday, looking to finish Chapter 9 of the Ruby Mastery quiz and move on to the tenth and final chapter. I finished my program, ran it a few times to see if it worked with all eventualities and was … Continue reading Day 6 at Makers Academy →

Ruby Mastery In Day 4 we started working with Ruby. We had all done some Ruby before, the pre-interview work was all based in Ruby, however for me this was about 9 months ago, so I definitely needed a refresher. We were given a link to a website which talked through some concepts in Ruby, … Continue reading Day 4 at Makers Academy →

Command Line Day 3 at Makers Academy was back to basics. All the flashy work we had done on Day 2 was gone, Day 3 was all about starting our training. The work we had to do on this day was all based in the command line, entering commands into the terminal to make things … Continue reading Day 3 at Makers Academy →

My First Website Day 2 was the day we actually started coding! We were told on the Monday afternoon that we would be building our first functioning website on Day 2, using a mixture of CSS, Java, HTML and I am sure more that I have forgotten, and this was incredibly true. We were given … Continue reading Day 2 at Makers Academy →