It all depends on the person. Plenty of really awesome coders are self-taught. Some other coders have computer science background. Others have gone through coding bootcamps. There’s really no one-size-fits-all approach to becoming a professional coder. So rather than talking about if a coding bootcamp is worth the money let’s think about what value coding…
Ken Mazaika
“Should I learn to code and build my own idea with node.js or ember.js or (something equally hyped up)?” I get this question about 5 times a week by potential web development apprenticeship students and people that I advise on building their product in my free time. This question comes from the idea that one should learn the…
Marco Morawec
If you’re using CarrierWave to upload images to your web application, and you haven’t changed how the images get stored, you’re going to run into problems when you push up to heroku. Heroku allows us to store our code, and the images we know about as we’re building our web application, but they don’t play…
Ken Mazaika
I was working on a web application with a visual designer. He handed off the design for the site to me and it looked killer. I went ahead and coded the change up in HTML & CSS. When I thought I was done, I was super stoked and I showed it to him. His response? That’s…
Ken Mazaika
The first step of coding is getting in a place where you can write and run the code you wrote. To do so, you’ll need to install a few programs and configure a few accounts. While this sounds easy and you’ve probably installed other programs on your computer like Spotify, Excel or Photoshop, developer programs…
Ken Mazaika