Yesterday (Day 4) was a HUGE improvement in terms of mental state. I ended up not waking up at my usual 5 AM and slept in to 7 AM. This really helped with maintaining my awareness and focus throughout the day. Today, I ended up waking up at 5 AM and I still feel great. […]

Boy oh boy. Yesterday was an absolute mental drain. A full day of recursion really messed with my head. Coming in, I felt I was fairly comfortable with recursion, at least when it came to easy to intermediate problems, but looking and trying to solve the more involved and difficult problems proved to be incredibly […]

Lecture for day 2 was on references and scope. References is a concept I do kind of feel uncomfortable with, but most of the confusion has to do with understanding the mutability of the value that’s being referenced, and whether a particular function or method is mutating that value, therefore changing or not changing the […]

I’m sitting here with an hour before lecture for week 2 day 2 starts and I just wanted to make sure I get yesterday’s post out. First day was great! Very, very busy, as I’m sure the rest of the program’s going to be this way. The program’s designed so that you’re not actually expected […]

Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you. Tony Robbins I just wanted to take a couple minutes this morning to write on this quote real quick. The last couple weeks, I’ve been plagued with this fear of being dismissed from App Academy as a result of failing too many assessments. […]

Today, I wanted to deviate away from the coding posts for a little bit and talk about something a bit more generalized, but equally important. I’m writing this without an outline or anything, so forgive me if I ramble. The purpose of this post is just to declare what my plans are in regards to […]

This article assumes that you have a basic understanding of instance variables. Setter and getter methods are important for attribute access outside of the class creation. In the instance that you need to access, say, the name of a Person object, you need a getter method defined within the class, or in simpler terms, you […]

Recursion is the “Inception” of the computer science world. Where “Inception” metaphorically represents the concept of a dream within a dream, within a dream, etc., recursion is the concept of a method call, within itself, which could lead to an infinite loop if you’re not careful. As with all my articles where I try and […]

Object-Oriented Programming(OOP) is the essence of Ruby, and as such, it’s hard to really elaborate what an object is. At first, it was hard for me to grasp what an object was, let alone the concept of OOP, but with more repetition, exposure and practice, it got easier and easier to understand what OOP was. Now […]

The moment I caught my first glimpse of the prep work for a/A, I was like, “Whoa. Holy sh*t.” One part being that at the time, I had less than three weeks to complete it, and it was “four weeks” worth of work, and the other part being that, after looking through some of the […]