Phase 3 and Final Project – Dev Academy

The last three to four weeks have been very hectic. I started Phase 3 on the 15th of June. The first week of this Phase was Rails week, the first half of the second week was doing more in Javascript and then on the Thursday we started our final project.The final project went for a …

Hello Rails! Week 1, Phase 3 – Dev Academy

This past week at Enspiral Dev Academy I have had a fantastic time! In the guide for this phase it has this: Phase 3 is the most exciting phase here at EDA. In this phase we no longer view you as students or developers-in-training, rather we look at you to be valuable, albeit junior, collaborators …

Phase 2 done – Dev Academy Bootcamp

Wow, so another phase completed and the final phase to go. I have enjoyed Phase 2 a lot. It has been great getting out of the console and onto the web. I like making sites look good and felt pretty confident with HTML and CSS before Phase 2. It has been heaps of fun to dive …

Half way through Phase 2 @ EDA Bootcamp

This is a very quick post as Phase 2 of Enspiral Dev Academy is really full on, madly busy. In week 4 (week 1 of Phase 2) covered: Testing, Simple Web Applications, and Github: In week 4, we cover Rspec, Sinatra, ActiveRecord, HTML, CSS, and Heroku. Your primary objective is to feel confident that you can …

Phase 1 Completed! Dev Academy Bootcamp

I have completed Phase 1 of Enspiral Dev Academy bootcamp! Yay! I am really excited to get into Phase 2 as we graduate to Sinatra - a domain-specific language, which we will be using to create web applications! It is like graduating to secondary school! During Phase 0 I really enjoyed working with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and JQuery, …

Dev Academy Bootcamp: Wk 2 — OOP

Dev Academy Bootcamp: Phase 1 - Week 2 -- Object Oriented Programming The focus of this week has been Object Oriented Programming. During this week I have learnt: a lot about classes and fruit trees! (The first activity was creating an Orange Tree Grove and then converting it into a Tree Grove with different types of …

Week 1: Phase 1 – DevAcademy a.k.a “BOOTCAMP”

Algorithms accountability Pair Programming driver navigator Git GitHub Ruby yoga coaching Debugging Two Truths and a Lie Encoding and Decoding Smartphone Roman Numerals Numbers in Words Revision challenge for Roman Numerals Review: Review others and refactor your own Stretch: Try the following challenges Dictionary Sort Advanced Calculator Engineering Empathy (EE) - Introduction to mindfullness Enumerable's, nested data, recursion part 1 Nested arrays Enumerable methods Dictionary sort Linear search Binary search Enacting enumerables  Engineering Empathy: Deep dive - Sexism Stretch: …

DevAcademy: final two weeks of Phase 0!

Week 8: Databases + Review We did this stuff: Treehouse: Database Foundations Review JavaScript Objects with Codecademy: JavaScript - Data Structures, Objects I, and Objects II. JavaScript Gradebook JavaScript Tally Votes Fizz Buzz Super Edition Nums to Words Javascript Olympics I quite liked learning more about SQL as I had learnt a little bit while …

More JQuery – mobile drop down menu

Note: 2 May - whoops, this one has been sitting in my drafts for about 5 weeks! Last week I learnt a lot about JavaScript and JQuery. One of the challenges for Week 3 of Phase 0 (for Dev Academy) was adding interactivity to our own site/s. I added a simple Lightbox effect to my …

An aside: Imposter Syndrome

The other week, Samson Ootoovak, a coach at DevAcademy, posted in EDA's slack channel a link to a video of  Joshua Paling speaking about the Imposter Syndrome.  Good talk, worthwhile watching whole 20 minutes. The following week I as in touch with Rachel Collingridge, who works at Powershop, I was asking her if she has suffered …