So, as promised here I am with the answer of how to get the sum of primes under a given number. JS and Ruby have very different ways of managing this, as before I will first approach the JS solution, then will go into the much swifter Ruby version.

So lets get into the JS shall we!

Well this is the story, all about how my sums got flipped, turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how to work out Common multiples in JavaSript.

Yeah doesn’t work so well. However nor does JS when doing either of these compared to Ruby. Needless to say its good to know how to do it in both!

So then lets have a gander at JS and getting the smallest common multiple, shall we?

In this case that is finding the smallest number that all numbers within a given range is divisible by with no remainder. E.g with a range of numbers between 1 and 5, the smallest common multiple is 60. …

I shall put an initial proviso here, everything I say from this point onwards is very subjective to my experience. However I hope that some of the following words will be beneficial!

So, one of the main things I will start by mentioning, I have recently graduated from the Flatiron School Online Software Engineering Bootcamp. I was originally intending on doing the course on site in the London Campus, however a rather significant pandemic arose, and quite sensibly they closed the campuses.

This left me in a bit of a pickle. Postpone till the campuses re-open or go all in and change to the Online course. As I had revved myself up for this, I went ahead and switched to the Online version. …

So my friends, here we are, I have prospered under the teachings of Flatiron up to this point and now I have reached the final grand Hurrah. My 5th (and final) Module is upon us dear readers.

So my friends, join me on a journey. I shall take you back, back through the mists of time to three days ago. Where JavaScript classes were scary and foreign creatures, their purpose as clear as the Limpopo river to me (the muddy bits of it anyway).

Anyway, I’m gonna talk about JavaScript now. It’s project four time with Flatiron School, and having moved on from Ruby on Rails I have entered the fearsome lands of JS, where Semicolons once roamed wild across the plains.

For this project I wracked my brain, and having watched a lot of Avatar: The Last Airbender recently, I decided the only logical thing to do was design a Chimera Builder. That is an app that allows you to create a single composite creature out of other animals traits or allow behind the scenes randomisers to choose for you. …

So here we are at the Rails Project stage, it feels like only yesterday I was doing simple addition programming and being wowed by it. Now I am making 11 model monsters with multiple has_many to has_many relationships.

What a lot can change in just a few months! I decided to take a different tack for this project and move away from Dungeons and Dragons, Instead I am now in the realm of designing a miniature game (a hybrid from two different rulesets I love). This is how we ask the question, how do you create a monster?

The answer is, little step by little step. It may seem like obvious advice but one thing I am really learning here is limiting the scope of what you are working on to one step at a time. First off create your basic Users access, sessions and single model relationship (in my case for the above app, its Users have warbands, warbands belong to a…

So here we are nearing the end of Module 2 of the Online Flatiron Software Engineering course. This module has been going from basic use of SQlite all the way up to using it within Sinatra to make a fully functioning database with constructed GUI.

So I, like the nerd I am, decided to expand on my original CLI project or the monster and spells manager to create a spellbook manager for users. This would allow a logged in user to create spellbooks and populate them with either the pre-populated catalogue of 5e spells

Github link to the App: https://github.com/dwandrew/Dnd_Spells_and_Monsters

I am a Nerd, an unashamed Nerd. With capital ’N’, as such dabbling with coding seemed somewhat of an inevitability! Its been an intense few weeks thus far, by my knowledge is expanding in a gloriously satisfying way.

Week 4 of Flatiron Bootcamp has rampaged around already, and here we are making an app of our own choosing. And this is how we come back to Dungeons and Dragons. The lovely people at Wizards of the Coast have made DnD 5th ed (at least the core books) open access. …