First and foremost, at the Iron Yard I have learned to solve problems analytically and to think like a programmer. In addition to learning the Python programming language, I learned Flask and SQLAlchemy for web development. I also learned NumPy, Pandas and SciKitLearn to analyze data and explore different methods of machine learning.
Before arriving at the Iron Yard, I've had some diverse career experiences. After graduating from Duke in 2002, I spent two years studying and performing improvisational comedy in New York City. In 2004 I returned to Durham to attend Duke Divinity School where I received my Masters in Theological Studies in 2006. Since then I have been working in early education in the Triangle area, most recently as an administrator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Care Program.
betti.co was my final project at the IronYard. Along with two other members of the Python Class, I used Flask to create the back-end for the site. My contributions included a full REST API, OAuth through Facebook, and a rigorous emailing system using FlaskMail.
Waitlist is a Trello clone that I worked on as a weekend project at the Iron Yard. I worked with one other Python student and two Front-End Students. We Python students created a REST API which was used by the Front End.
This project used Pandas and Matplotlib to create an iPython Notebook of data gathered from mining the American Time Use Survey. I explored how housework responsibilities in the home are affected by the presence of children.
This project used SciKitLearn to generate a Gaussian Classifier that was able to identify a snippet of code as one of 11 different programming languages with an accuracy rate of 72%.