Today was the Spectra Hackathon. Originally, I was slated to code with a friend from Hackbright and two women who are graduate students in CS at a local college. However, once I saw the classes being offered I really wanted to take the classes; plus, our group had not done any planning for the hackathon.... Continue Reading →
San Diego Girl Develop It I am in San Diego today, and decided to take a React class from Girl Develop It in San Diego. For me, this was a return to where everything started. Prior to coming to Hackbright, I took multiple classes with Girl Develop It in San Diego, to see if in-person... Continue Reading →
LISP I learned LISP in college. I did not like it. My only actual memory of it was that it involved lots of parenthesis and recursion. Today I was thinking about the suggestion during our last academic day at Hackbright that for our next language, we should try a lower level language. In the past,... Continue Reading →
Mentors This morning I was fortunate enough to have not one but two mentors meet with me. I wanted to discuss a few data structures; on my list: forests, clusters, hashmaps and ordered dictionaries and sets. Thankfully, my mentors are both patient and smart - and helped me to better understand what I... Continue Reading →
Last Lecture Today was the last day of Hackbright. The last official activity for our cohort was a web application security talk. I learned quite a bit. A Hackbright partner company, NCC, has provided us all with a copy of the Web Application Hacker's Handbook. One of their consultants, who is an excellent teacher, is teaching... Continue Reading →
Resumes and more... Today I had an appointment with career services to review my resume. It is starting to dawn on me that Hackbright is ending tomorrow. The review went well and I received very helpful feedback. Meetups galore One of the great things about being in San Francisco is that there are meetups of... Continue Reading →
Inspiration The day did not begin until 12:30 at Hackbright. I arrived about 30 minutes early to find a smattering of other sleepy classmates. It seems that all of us are being reminded by our bodies that we were sleep deprived for too long. Everyone is incredibly sleepy, despite actually getting a solid night's sleep.... Continue Reading →
Cookbooks I really enjoy baking. I also enjoy cooking, but I am not as good at it. One thing I like about baking is that it is both precise and beautiful. Elaborate baking projects involve a scrupulous amount of precision. Last Thanksgiving I made the French macaroon cookies with my three young cousins.... Continue Reading →
Reviewing... Today was the start of a laundry list of things that I want to review. Roughly speaking, the items are split into a few areas: algorithms, data structures, and math. My plan is to use various tools to assist in my review. Algorithms My focus was to review the algorithms from two labs at... Continue Reading →
Hackbright - Part Two The "educational" part of Hackbright is over, and now the focus for the next two weeks is on the job search. Every day, roughly from 10am to 6pm, there are any number of events, workshops, practice sessions, etc... all aimed at helping us to get a job. Our day started with... Continue Reading →
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