by Galina Yermicheva, cohort 1 student. Read the original on her blog. A part of Ada is attending networking events to get to know the Seattle tech community better. I thought it would be great if my classmates could add events like this to a common calendar and the users would be notified via email and have the option to RSVP to events. I decided to work on this project over winter break, and this is how Ada Calendar came to life.…
by Audrey Carlsen, cohort 1 student. Read the full post on her blog. I spent last Friday trying to push my most recent web app to production. The biggest challenge was figuring out how to implement a gem called Resque, which allows you to run background jobs (such as mailing all users when a new blog post is created) without having the hold up the rest of your app. In this post, I’m going to assume that you already have Resque working locally…
by Shadae Holmes, cohort 1 student. Read the full post on her blog. The RuboCop gem is a ruby community approved, code style analyzer. We have used it in a few projects to keep in line with recommended ruby style. I usually start by using RuboCop from the beginning of the project. Upon doing this, right away there are errors stating “Prefer single-quoted strings when you don’t need string interpolation or special symbols”. That’s correct, Rails when initialized breaks more than a…
During the holiday break, Ada Developers Academy students were given the task of creating fully-functional web applications. The catch: because so many students were traveling, with family, or otherwise busy, the students were tasked with creating the applications completely independently. The Exploratory Application project was completely open-ended – students chose the application, determined a reasonable scope given their vacation time commitments, and even the picked language and framework to work with. The primary requirement was that the project had to…
Susannah Malarkey is the Executive Director of the Technology Alliance, our parent organization – and she’s also a writer for Xconomy. During the holiday break, she wrote a great article about Ada Developers Academy. We thought we’d share! Why are companies, agencies, and individuals investing in our program? Because they believe we need to address the workforce shortage and gender imbalance in software development. They realize that Ada can make an immediate difference, defining an alternative pathway for women to enter…
**Ada After Hours is not currently in session – our students are out of the classroom and in internships! Sign up on our mailing list to hear about upcoming events.** We’ve set up a weekly after-hours study session at Ada! This is a great place to go through tutorials, work on personal coding projects, and get help from instructors and volunteers. This is a beginner-friendly coding environment and everyone, regardless of experience is invited. Location: Ada Classroom: 1301 5th Avenue #1300, Seattle, WA…
We’re proud to announce that our first class will have 16 amazing students and will be held in the Rainier Tower in downtown Seattle. Please meet Anne and Liz, two members of our super-smart and incredibly talented group. Anne I’m Anne: lover of languages, climber of mountains, writer of terribly uninformative initial sentences in self-descriptions and now proto-developer with Ada. My interest in computer science developed rather recently and was surprising to discover. In hindsight, I should have known I…
Hi, I’m Elise. I’m a ruby developer out of Seattle. I’m really lucky – I learned how to program through unconventional means: friends, bootcamps, and trial and error. Becoming a programmer has been the most challenging and the most rewarding experience of my life. I am also a woman. The cards are stacked against women who are interested in programming careers: 85% of programmers and 98.5% of open source contributors are male. I’m helping start a program to change this:Â Ada…