Databases and Bookmark Manager Today we started looking at databases and how they are used when designing and using websites. The first thing we learnt is how they are related to the client/server relationship we learned about last week. Basically the database sits with the server and is used to store stuff. One of our … Continue reading Day 26 at Makers Academy →

Rock, Paper, Scissors I started on the Friday Challenge this morning, which I spoke about yesterday. I managed to finish it off by 11:30am, so personally I think it went very well! I wrote a plan out yesterday, so I am going to start by comparing what I did to what I planned. Home page … Continue reading Day 25 at Makers Academy →

Random Practicals, Thinking About the Friday Challenge and Perfecting Birthday Greeter Today was a little quieter for me, as I have got as far as I think I can with Battle, and completed the Birthday Greeter project yesterday. This morning I had a look over the last few practicals, which were all very quick. Mainly … Continue reading Day 24 at Makers Academy →

Birthday Greeter and Battle This morning I started on the Birthday Greeter project I mentioned yesterday. I managed to get it working and looking nice by just after lunch, which I am very happy about! As I said it is quite a simple web app, but it still took a lot of work. Here is … Continue reading Day 23 at Makers Academy →

More Battle and the HTTP Process This morning we had a workshop talking about the process of http requests. We then had 15 minutes to work through 3 scenarios as a group and map out what the process was. Then we had to come back and act it out. I played the server, and I … Continue reading Day 22 at Makers Academy →

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 →