For my Flatiron final project, I decided to build an application related to something I am passionate about: Movies. The only weird thing about this is that I love to watch movies in the Movie Theater, not much at home. So, once I miss a movie in the theater, it…

Dreams Catcher, a Javascript application. For my Flatiron JavaScript project, I decided to build an application related to something I am passionate about: Dreams and Goals. I think that when we save pictures and descriptions of our dreams and look at them frequently, we force ourselves to transform them into goals, working to make them…

My journey with Flatiron School’s Software Engineering Program continues with Ruby on Rails, a wonderful framework that optimizes our work. For this project, I decided to improve my last application which was a Sinatra based website where a user can discover vegan options at non-vegan restaurants. In my last project…

Params is another way to refer to Parameters, and indicate the parameters being passed to the controller via a GET or POST request. It is a hash that stores the key-value pairs that were encoded inside of a URL/HTTP request. …

Since before I started my journey as a software engineering student, I’ve always wanted to build a blog where I would be able to help myself and other people find plant-based food at non-vegan restaurants. This idea became more appealing to me during this pandemic, with many good restaurants closing…

While building my CLI (Command-line Interface) project for Flatiron school, I had difficulties understanding how the <self.> keyword works in Ruby. So my instructor and reviewer gave me an amazing idea: search, study, and write about the problem. Here I am going to talk about some helpful uses for self. …

I first learned about Seinfeld 15 years ago from a boyfriend who had the series’ entire DVD collection. He said, “Come on, let’s watch it!”. But I said no, I wasn’t interested in it. …

As a child, living in my country Brazil, I grew up witnessing my two grandmothers, day after day, rescuing and caring for stray animals. At 12 years old, I watched one of my puppies get very ill. Seeing that I couldn’t save him from his illness, I promised him that…