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Week Three: Databases and Active Record
It’s the end of week three, meaning we’re now a quarter of the way through the course! I’ve learned a lot this week. We’ve been covering brand new topics, but we’ve been building on the foundations from the topics last week - we’ve been using TDD consistently and have come across several design patterns when working with Active Record. Prior to Monday, we had built some programs that persisted data using YAML files. This is...
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The Second Week
I’ve just completed my second week at We Got Coders. For me, this week was a step up; both in terms of the level of the subject matter and the difficulty. I’m still having a great time, but I’ve probably said “I’m confused” more in the last week than I have in the last year. The focus of the lessons and assignments for the last few days has been test-driven development (TDD) and design patterns....
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The First Week at We Got Coders
Left to right: Dan, Simon, Adam, Marvin, Me, John and Patty. It’s been a great first week here at the WGC house! I think I’ve discovered that I’m unable to write concisely, so I apologise in advance if this post ends up being as long as the last one. Moving In Our course started on Monday, but we moved into the house Sunday afternoon. The start date had been postponed for two months, which was...
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Applying to We Got Coders
One week ago, I started an intensive web development course at We Got Coders, a countryside retreat in rural Bedfordshire which aims to turn it’s students into full-stack developers ready to go straight into careers. Personally, I spent a long time researching courses - and when I discovered We Got Coders, I read as many blogs and reviews from current students and graduates as I could find to get an idea of what the place...
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