Programming...Anew perspective

 This has been the most challenging journey I have had to work on so far. I had earlier at the beginning of the rails class taken some of the concepts for granted. for instance, my previous experience in the SINATRA project was supposed to have actually given me an insight into what I was to expect. well, somewhat. The rails project in itself proved a little bit of a monster I had to tame. There were new concepts I had to learn. In the course of doing my project, I did have a little issue as to what project I was going to come up with. I had sort of a freeze. I came up with a model of a library and its readers. the readers will have comments after reading each book. but I jettisoned the idea. I then came up with the idea of a garden of roses; Roses, garden, and comments of the user with regards to the garden. the problem I ran into was the implementation of the has_many through relationship within the application. I finally made a project with a doctor and a patient, with appointme...

 At the early start of my project with the Command Line Interface(CLI),  I thought I was always going to use the interface to communicate with the user. It was then interesting to realize that that was not always the case. During my stint with the Sinatra application, The interesting aspect was the way the ruby gems interacted with the web application vis a vis the controller application. It felt kind of magical to see the entire code come to life. the ability to Create, Read, Update, and Delete files or stored data within the application was such a tremendous part of the project. Gardening was what I grew up learning as a kid while growing up. I was always around various plant types for the early part of my youth. Sometimes I was doing it as a hobby or sometimes as a chore. My mus would always drag me out in the wee hours to either water the plants, move some of the plats from the nurseries to the bigger pots, or I would be involved in grafting different plants especially ros...

When i was thinking of a project, the idea of an interactive interface did come to my mind. I did not envisage, however, that I will be creating an application on an interface that was Linux based. In the first instance, my thought were that it will turn out to be on such a wonderful Graphical Interface.  So I wrote my first program that was to interface with the world, a real user. To be honest It was quite a task being my first CLI (Command Line Interface) project per se. I had been through this grueling situation whee a lot of the substance  that was learned from my Ruby class seemed not to make sense at first. gradually though, through this project a lot made sense. Classes, methods, inheritance et al seemed to be words i thought were rather abstract. My application is a project i decided upon at the very last minute. I thought of creating an application that had to do with recipes of various cuisines that span from my hobby as a cook, or even a bouquet of flowers o...

When i finished my associates in Electrical Engineering Technology, It was an exiting time for me. the idea of solving complex problems was, or so I thought, would come naturally. messing with simple circuits to breaking down hardware just to figure out how things generally worked. Gradually  I drifted to hardware computer maintenance and i discovered the "nitty gritty".  Interesting mother board that had processors, Random Access Memory cards(RAM), To Read Only Memory cards embedded unto it. It was an interesting experience and something I did for  while. Deep inside I had always wanted to find out how computers, worked! I mean other than the hardware what else. I started to get fascinated about software when while in college, i got the privilege to program a robot to move on a track using simple code. When it worked it got me excited so I decided to try more of coding. C++ was one of the earlier languages I attempted to use.It was hard at first to understand what all ...