“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh — I finished my final project and will soon graduate from Flatiron. Now that I have accomplished my goal, it’s time to make a new one. In this post I will be brainstorming/sharing my thoughts pertaining to my new goal. First things first: after graduation I plan to meet with my career coach to explore what the programming world has to offer. I’m leaning towards becoming a Software Developer, or perhaps a Software Engineer. Both peak my interests, but also have slight differences. Depending on my skill — and what…

First we need to create our migration files, here I’m using a Rake commandment to accomplish this.

I’m finally done with Phase2! This was the most entertaining module I’ve done so far. From learning components and JSX, all the way to making fetch GET, POST and DELETE requests, I’ve absorbed a ton of information! Let’s talk about something that I’m proud of learning: Controlled Form Components! At…

Never thought I’d make it this far, but here I am! I’ll be going over the aspects of my project that I’ve had the most trouble with (one out of many, but the most difficult for me). CREATING WORKING BUTTONS! To start, I made two button elements in my ‘index.html’…

Why computer science? What is my goal for the future? Do I have what it takes to succeed? These are the frequent questions that come to my mind. My name is Cristian Benitez, and I am striving to become a great software engineer! First things first, why am I so…

“WOW! I never thought in a million years I’d be able to do what I can do now! This school has definitely opened my eyes to a whole new world.. The time and effort I put into this project was definitely worth the learning boost!” -Me This project uses a…