Web Apps and More This week is Web Week! Today we started the Battle project, in which we have to make a web based game, that is totally not Pokemon... The beginning of the course is a walkthrough on how to use Sinatra, a gem for ruby that lets you create your own local server … Continue reading Day 21 at Makers Academy →

Takeaway Challenge Today we undertook the Takeaway Challenge. Unfortunately it is much less delicious than it sounds, it involves no actual eating of takeaways! We had to build a takeaway application which could show a menu, take orders, show the costs and place an order. We were given relatively little direction on how to do … Continue reading Day 20 at Makers Academy →

Last Day of Oyster Cards and Mocking Practicals This morning we had the workshop on testing with doubles. Again it is something we had worked on a little so it wasn't completely new, but it was good to practice. We completed one of the skills workshop challenges, where we had to refactor tests to use … Continue reading Day 19 at Makers Academy →

Forwarding and Dependency Injection This morning we had a workshop on Forwarding, which it turns out is the same as Delegation which I covered yesterday. The task we were given was a little tougher though so I still tried to complete it. At first I got myself all confused, and nothing was working. I think … Continue reading Day 18 at Makers Academy →

More Oyster Cards, Encapsulation and Polymorphism This morning I did some practicals that had been suggested to us. One was about Encapsulation and one was about Polymorphism. I talked about what these were in yesterdays blog, and today I actually got a chance to look at it in practice. I started with Encapsulation. The first … Continue reading Day 17 at Makers Academy →

Object-Oriented Programming and Oyster Cards Today we were told to look into what object-oriented programming actually was and the principles of coding in an OOP language. There were three thing we were told to focus on; Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism. What is Object-oriented Programming?Firstly I will talk about what OOP actually is. OOP is a … Continue reading Day 16 at Makers Academy →

The First Friday Challenge - Airport Today we undertook our first Friday challenge! The challenge was fairly similar to Boris Bikes, we had to use TDD to develop a program that used multiple classes to manage the flow of airplanes through an airport, depending on the weather. Here is my completed Repo. I won't go … Continue reading Day 15 at Makers Academy →

Duck Typing in my RSpec, Starting a Dice Game, and the Final Day of Boris This morning I finished off my RSpec copy by adding in the 'it' block. I had to do a bit of research on blocks and exceptions, but was able to find what I needed fairly quickly. I wrote my it … Continue reading Day 14 at Makers Academy →

More TDD, RSpec, and Boris, and Gaming Netflix This morning I actually followed the plan I was meant to yesterday (oops) by working solo on Practicals this morning. I started off by re-working my TDD flow chart after receiving some coach feedback. Draft 2 was a bit more complex, it involved more looping back and … Continue reading Day 13 at Makers Academy →