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 →

Introductions Day 1 was an introduction to Makers Academy and the 6 other people I would be completing the course with. 3 of them were from Tesco like me, and would be my colleagues after the 12 week course. At first though, as is pretty common, most of us were pretty quiet around each other, … Continue reading Day 1 at Makers Academy →