Earlier today I had a second round technical panel interview. I’m really pleased with how it went and feel like my answers were strong across the board with only a couple answers I was unsure on, as well as a couple questions about technologies that...
With a few interviews under my belt, I can say with some certainty that I need to be prepared to describe the differences between a REST API and GraphQL! Throughout my time at Turing, I mostly worked with RESTful APIs, using a ton of different free...
Last week I graduated from my coding bootcamp at the Turing School of Software & Design. For those who aren't familiar, Turing is a 7 month, 1500+ hour, accredited bootcamp (the only accredited one in the US) where students specialize in either front...
I've been out of the blogging habit for a little bit, but I am now less than a week away from graduating from my bootcamp! Most of my time in the last few weeks has been devoted to networking and job applications but there are a few required sessions...
Today was my mid-mod assessment for Mod 3 at Turing! That's a lot of Turing-specific lingo, but basically this is an ungraded assessment of everything we've learned so far at the halfway point of the 3rd quarter of this program (that's not actually l...
I've been doing a lot of networking and professional development and not as much coding this past week so tonight I set myself a lil tech challenge as interview prep. The challenge: write a function that can determine if a given word is a palindrome ...
Typically when I tell people that I used to be a pastry chef the reaction is somewhere along the lines of, "How amazing! That sounds so fun!" They picture the instagram version of a pastry chef- all cupcakes and sprinkles and rainbows. And it is! ....
Our first partner project for this section of the front end Turing bootcamp is a movie application- think Netflix or Rotten Tomatoes but with the functionality turned way down so that we can focus on React fundamentals. I worked on rendering the movi...
I am shamelessly appropriating this example from one of my instructors at Turing this morning, but it really made the concept of controlled forms in React click for me! (And it's super relatable) So here's the deal: My dog absolutely loves food. She...