Another day of JavaScript, and the syntax is getting easier and easier to grasp. My biggest issue yesterday was just intimately understanding callbacks. Everyone keeps telling me that they’re basically equivalent to Ruby’s blocks. I get that, I can totally see it when I’m shown an easy one-liner example. But when it gets into the […]

First official JavaScript day! Today was all about diving right into JavaScript syntax. While I did have exposure to JavaScript through self-study before the program started, I only retained about 60% of it since it’s been all Ruby and Ruby on Rails for the last 5 weeks. We revisited a lot of old toy problems […]

Great news! I passed! It was definitely intense. I finished in about an hour and a half, but I felt like I could have finished faster if it wasn’t for the content. it was definitely hard. Funny story though, during the assessment, I was struggling for a bit because the naming conventions were screwing me […]

Quick post! It’s currently Tuesday right now, an hour before the assessment is set to start. I wanted to take a brief break to just update you guys on progress. I feel good about the assessment, but also nervous because the last time I said this, I choked. Just knocked on wood haha. But I’ve […]

Friday was a pretty fun day despite it being the end of the week. While the week started off pretty bad, it’s been looking up as the week wore on. The sting of the failed assessment started to lessen around mid-week, but I guarantee you my drive to finish the program is stronger than ever. […]

Yesterday was fun as hell. We made a music app that allows for the creation, editing, and deleting of various bands, albums and tracks. We then applied what we learned with authentication to create user profile and restrict accessibility of non-user visitors. This was a topic that I was able to pick up fairly well, […]

Dam authentication is INTENSE! There’s definitely a general pattern that might be easy to memorize given some repetition, but the underlying concepts are awesome. From assigning session tokens, to hashing passwords, the design almost seems intuitive in how to websites should properly protect your information. There’s A LOT of stuff that’s going on though, and […]

4 hours of homework and videos. Goddam. But authentication’s a very important topic, especially when it comes to back-end stuff. But real quick, before I go into auth, I just wanted to readdress Monday’s assessment. I went back to practice it today within the time constraints, keep in mind I haven’t really visited it since […]

This is perhaps the hardest entry I’ve had to write so far. As you can tell from the title, I failed yesterday’s assessment by about 3 specs, with an overall percentage of around 73%. I’ve spent most of yesterday mostly reflecting on what happened and how I can improve on future assessments. Honestly, the stress […]

Week 3 is already over! Time is seriously flying. That’s the strangest thing though. It’s ALREADY the start of week 4, and yet, I feel like I’ve been studying code at a/A for 3 months. An incredible oxymoron in this case, at least I think so. It could also mean I’ve been learning at an […]