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Building a billion dollar app

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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Earlier this week, Natalie and I had a chat with Rob and Enrique about when the low points of positivity tended to be for students at Makers Academy. Week 8 and 9, they told us. This was funny for me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Makers Academy Tagged rails

Magic Rails, Magic Week

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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For any person learning to code, your first experience with Rails makes you wonder whether there really is some real magic involved in coding. Rails is an open source web application framework which is written in Ruby and used to develop … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Makers Academy Tagged rails, ruby

It’s 5am… But I’m still up and working

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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It’s midnight. I’m in bed. But I’m not getting ready to sleep. I’m getting ready to code. Sitting upright, my back against the headboard, I’ve got a nice cup of tea beside me and my computer comfortably perched on my … Continue reading →

Posted in Makers Academy, The Independent Tagged makers academy

Twitter will never be the same again

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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After being introduced to JavaScript earlier in the week, the next task was to return to our bookmark manager application and use our new skills to it more flashy. Helpfully, we had a tutorial to follow which made it easier … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Makers Academy Tagged CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Rock, Paper, Scissors, JavaScript

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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After a busy weekend coding, I managed to get a simple Twitter application working. It’s not anything to look at, but it fulfils the basic functionality requirements, and that’s all that matters for now. Having said that, I’m building up … Continue reading →

Posted in Makers Academy Tagged databases, JavaScript

Goodbye, August

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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I wrote hardly any code yesterday at Makers Academy, though I was distracted for good reason: the August cohort were graduating! From 9am in the morning, there was a mixture of excitement and anxiety in the air, as the graduands put … Continue reading →

Posted in Makers Academy Tagged graduation, presentation, projects

Confused with Cucumber and Capybara

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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These last few days have been quite tough. Not only have I struggled to get to grips with the material, I’ve also been feeling rather poorly, with a headache that refuses to budge. Not a great combination in the fast-paced, … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Makers Academy Tagged BDD, testing

Sinatra has ended his set, the crowd applauds…

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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Another challenging week over!  Not only have we had to rely on all of the knowledge that we’ve built up over the last five weeks in order to deploy a Sudoku app online, we’ve been exposed to a wealth of … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Entrepreneurship, Makers Academy Tagged CSS, entrepreneur, HTML, sinatra, startup, sudoku

Talks Night

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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Enrique had the brilliant idea of hosting a talks night at Makers yesterday evening. The idea was that anyone could get up and speak for five minutes on any topic of their choice. It was a chance for us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Makers Academy Tagged presentation

Halloween Randori

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Nadia Odunayo

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Last night was Halloween, which called for a celebration at Makers Academy, complete with sweets, chocolate, and pumpkin carving. Of course, we couldn’t celebrate without some form of coding, and so Enrique organised a Randori. ‘Randori’ is a term that … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, Makers Academy Tagged halloween, kata, randori, TDD

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