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How I felt the day we set up our Ruby dev environment:

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Day one at The Flatiron School Bk000

For the past 4 weeks since being accepted to the NYC Web Development Fellowship I have been putting in hours of prework/studying on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, and Rails; all for this very day and finally it has arrived.

Today was my first official class day at The Flatiron school and the first day every student was present under one roof. I was so excited that I barely got any sleep the night before and was also nervous of what to come.

This morning started with a quick reading about optimism (check out my article posted earlier today). I felt the read was perfect for what to come for us newbies. We should be optimistic about our experience and not be hard on ourselves when we are starting out. It is from those hardships in the beginning that makes us stronger in the future.

After reading and reflecting on optimism, we were broken up into teams for our first team challenge to create a team web page.

During this challenge, my team was great at collaborating and planning our site. We decided to build a motivation quote page and use HTML, CSS and JavaScript for our project. One of the challenges when collaborating is making sure we were all on one page. To do that we used Git and GitHub.

Git is a software that lets you manage a project, or a set of files, as they change over time.Git stores this information in a data structure called a repository. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system.

What does all that mean you ask? It means that with Git version control and GitHub it makes it easier for teams to work on the same files and take snapshots on different stages of your project.

After setting up our repository on GitHub, things started to move much smoother between my team and we all got to work on different parts of the team and eventually merging all our parts on GitHub to put together a working project to present.

After we all presented in class, our instructors went over Git and GitHub where I grasped an even better understanding of the Git version control workflow.

Once the lecture on Git and GitHub were done, we were assigned another team project on expanding on the project we worked earlier on the day.

Today was truly a great day and I’m excited on what to come for the upcoming days/weeks/months in this program. I know it will be difficult but I have a great pair of teachers that will lead my class to greatness.

[mandoiscoding]

Introduction

Hello, my name is Armando R. Amador and I graduated from Stony Brook university in May 2011. Since graduating I've had my hand in many different jobs such as being a math tutor, a freelance graphic designer, working as a web producer for EBONY magazine and working for VIBE Magazine as a jr. designer. One thing that always felt right was designing and playing around with the little bit of code I knew. After being laid off from VIBE magazine in mid April of this year I decided it was the right time to learn how to code. I wanted to pursue this goal because I want to be able to design and create apps for people to interact with. After a few months of learning to code I still felt I was not progressing fast enough since I would get stuck with certain programming problems and didn't have no one to turn to. I started looking into programs that teach how to code without having to go back to school. While in Quora I stumbled on the subject about developer bootcamps such as Dev bootcamp, app academy, General Assembly and Flatiron school. I decided to pursue Flatiron School and before I applied I found out about how NYC workforce was collaborating with Flatiron school to give the opportunity to 28 students to learn how to code for free. After two interviews and a programming assignment I was accepted as a fellow for The Flatiron School Web Development Fellowship program. Over 1300 students applied to this inaugural program and only 28 students were accepted. I truly feel lucky and blessed for being accepted to this great program. With this in mind I have come to a realization that this long journey will be about growing and learning about myself. I look forward to working and learning from my fellow classmates. I'm also excited about this journey because we all get to learn how to code and accomplishing our common goals of becoming awesome developers. Thank you for reading my post and please leave some feedback.

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