As a part of my final project for Flatiron School, I wanted to implement a star rating system. Since I would be adding reviews to each Lodge option, I thought stars would also be a good way to display a users feedback and learn how to do something new in…

Similar to most things thus far in my coding journey, at first when the topic of serializers was first introduced, I found it confusing and hard to find their purpose. But the more I learned about them and tried my best to experiment with the topic on my own, I…

Progressing through Phase 3 and learning Ruby, Sinatra, Active Record and a bit of SQL and Regex was by far the most in depth phase thus far in the Flatiron curriculum. However, now that I have become familiar with how to learn a new language, I was able to get…

I enjoyed the process of learning React and found it to be a more understandable language than JS. My final project is viewable HERE. For the project, I wanted to incorporate some of the things from the phase that I found the most interesting. …

Frankly put, the phase 1 project was full of ups and downs, but gradually I got more comfortable and really grasped the functionality and got some great experience with debugging errors and overall operation of the code in my project. One of the biggest things I learned throughout the construction…

As an avid runner, and someone who has completed several marathons and trail ultramarathons (a race farther than the 26.2 mile marathon) the hardest parts of any training run is often putting your shoes on, turning the doorknob and getting out the door. After the first mile, often the body…