My Game of Thrones CLI Gem Portfolio Relfection
While I could’ve probably just scraped a website, I ended up building my CLI project by making requests to an Application Programming Interface (API) which is basically a tool to access the hashes nested inside an array. My API was An API of Ice and Fire(https://anapioficeandfire.com/) This API is an open one - which means authentication is conveniently not required to request data from the API.
Flatiron's Collaborating Objects Lab
Roughly 5 weeks into Flatiron’s Online Software Engineering Program, we delved into Object Relations. In this lab, we will be discussing how each Class works off of each other. Since we, like the rest of humanity, love music, we decide to design a music app to play and store music files. How will an instance of our MP3Importer Class send its files to create new instances of Songs? How will our Songs know which Artist they belong to? All of this will be covered by this lab, but I will focus on some helpful tools that helped me problem solve and refine my thinking.
Simplifying the Hashes Manipulation Lab Part I .
One of the more challenging concepts I’ve struggled with on my coding journey, is mentally visualizing what happens inside my code as it’s executed. Like most people who grew up in the 90s, when picturing the code that runs reality, I think of the streaming neon green data from the The Matrix. How can we dive under the hood like Neo and Trinity? When constructing our coding reality, we must get comfortable slipping into an environment that can pinpoint the exact line our code deviates off course. Using the methods discussed bellow, we can focus on one of our most essential tasks on this journey: debugging our code.