The Internship! It's one of the things that draws students to LEARN academy. Interning at a local company allows LEARNers to take the skills they acquired in the class and apply them to a real world environment, while continuing to…
Cue the drumroll; group projects have arrived! Welcome to the most dramatic week of class!! Throughout all of the years of schooling, we as humans inevitably joined forces with those most likeminded to us, and this educational endeavor has been…
CRUD [ acronym, meaning create / read / update / destroy ] Also known as, the shortcut to building a Ruby on Rails app. I should have seen this coming!! Now that we know the true way to create the…
If you're around my age and spent a lot of time online when you were a kid, you probably had a Neopets account. In your early teens, you might have complained about school on LiveJournal, and kept in touch with…
I officially had made an app that I am proud of! This week flowed so nicely and everything seemed to click. We made a registration app that allowed you to log in with a user name and password, search the…
Professional development week, nice to meet you! Week 7 was honestly the most unsuspecting of all lessons this far. My Monday thoughts were something to the tune of "I already have my stuff together, I don't need a whole week…
Week 6 brought a welcome wind of change, as we began chipping away at a brand new language, SQL. I had heard about it before and know it is extremely popular in the tech industry, so I was excited to…
After a year of countless online web development tutorials and courses, I began to feel like I was spinning my wheels. I knew I was learning things but felt like I go going nowhere. There were so many different languages,…
Future coders, I'm gonna get real with you for a minute. I'm five weeks in, and I'm experiencing some realizations that I think are important to share. A leap of faith is exactly that – a jump into the deep…