Ruby on Rails & Python Trek

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:40:14 +0000

Wow its been a while since I last posted. Lots going on with interviews last month and then deciding to teach myself Ruby on Rails and being obsessed with Julython. I completed and launched my first Rails app (technically second after the sample app from the tutorial) at the beginning of this week. It is a simple thing that literally is just a button and I couldn’t be prouder.

What is Python Trek?
Python Trek is a mashup of Stark Trek and Monty Python scripts, quotes, etc. I built a program to generate random sentence or sentences using a Markov Chain algorithm and post those to the Twitter account @pythontrek. I used Ruby to build the program that generates the tweets and I applied Rails to set up a webpage where anyone can press a button that will generate the random tweet and post it.

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:48:00 +0000

Hackbright Class Spring 2013

8. Its around the age I was when my father brought home our first PC and I learned how to get around in DOS to play games. Fun fact is also used to be the number of standard bits in a byte.

So here I am 30 years later enrolled in the Python programming boot camp, Hackbright Academy, learning how to be a developer (or hacker as I’ve been informed).

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Ruby on Rails & Python Trek

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