I’m in my last week of the 12-week Major League Hacking Fellowship and the time has absolutely flown by. If anyone is reading this and wondering if they should apply to the Fellowship, do it! This is the sign you were waiting for. Save this article for later and go…

I recently heard that one great way to test not only your writing skills, but also your technical writing skills, is to write step by step directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I am currently a Fellow in the Major League Hacking Fellowship and working…

I’ve been meaning to take some time and write about my experience thus far working in the Major League Hacking Fellowship program so will be playing catch up now in this post and make it a point to write more frequently about it. …

Here at the end of bootcamp, I’ve taken a little time to reflect on what the past 20 weeks has taught me, no only in the software engineering sense, but also in the real world. Here are a few things I’ve learned on the way - Do Things That Intimidate You Of course, this is…

In my final project with Flatiron School (still can’t believe I’m saying that), some of my data included a boolean value on the back end. I set up a travel list application where a user can create a new trip they’d would like to go on, it will display to…

So in making my project for phase 4, Rails, I had almost forgot to include validations. Validations are a super important but fairly simple process. They are special methods that go in the models that will prevent incorrect data from being saved. …

I was trying to think of a good way to segue into this article with a Limp Bizkit lyric from the above song (I hope you heard it in your head, too). But unfortunately, that would not be very proper or professional. So we will just get started.. When I…

React has been a wild ride. There’s so much to explore and learn, but you won’t get very far at all if you don’t grasp onto one of the building foundations of React — props. React is made up of many different components coming together to make one interactive web…

Well, week one of React has wrapped up and I’m feeling more confident now than in previous weeks. But, I guess that sort of happens with any topic you may be trying to learn, the further in, the more confident. There’s still so much to React to learn, but it’s…