As video game enthusiast, I think I’ve seen the Unity logo more than any other during a game’s startup sequence. When I was in high school, I really wanted to create my own games. Unfortunately, I didn’t know the first thing about coding or game engines back then. I still don’t know much about game engines but I’ve been figuring out how to code since I joined the Flatiron bootcamp.

Unfortunately for me, the bootcamp’s coursework focuses mainly on full stack web development using Javascript, React, and Ruby on Rails whereas most games are written in C#. I was ecstatic…

Recently, I was working on a web app project in React and ran into a peculiar problem. I had recently learned about React routing using React-router-dom in my bootcamp course and wanted to try implementing routes to make a more dynamic web app. The issue I ran encountered happened when I tried to generate individual route paths for my individual objects that I had pulled from a JSON database.

In my case the ${this.props.match.url} corresponded to my basic path of ‘/games/’ and whatever value came after ‘/games/’ was assigned to the key of ‘gameId’. This allows me to run a…

Two weeks ago I was talking to a friend of mine, a computer science grad, about the software engineering bootcamp that I had recently started. He coded mainly in Javascript, the language taught in the bootcamp, so we had plenty to talk about.

We were going back and forth, discussing our thoughts about the language. We began joking around about outlandish ideas such as making an UwU translator bot to annoy our friends on a messaging platform called Discord. We realized that we could easily write out the code since it is fairly simple in terms of functionality. …