Building a billion dollar app

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, …

Magic Rails, Magic Week

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 …

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

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 …

Twitter will never be the same again

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 …

Rock, Paper, Scissors, JavaScript

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 …

Goodbye, August

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 …

Confused with Cucumber and Capybara

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, …

Sinatra has ended his set, the crowd applauds…

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 …

Talks Night

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 …

Halloween Randori

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 …