# Izzy Markwick
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Charity web app designed to help reduce food waste. It was built using Rails and GMaps, and designed mobile-first using Foundation. Follow the link to view the app hosted on Heroku
Music web app to listen to tunes and compile playlists of your top 10 tracks. It was built using Rails and Angular, with the Soundcloud api to provide a database of tracks and artists for users to search through.
Sinatra and Ruby web app to post comments in a public news feed contributed to by all users.
My interest in coding started soon after school and quickly came to influence many different areas of my life. From studying for a degree in International Politics with a focus on democratic systems in the digital age, to speding two years working for a Fashion-Tech startup alongside their team of developers. Keen to gain insight and knowledge in web development for myself, I joined Makers Academy and took on their intensive 3-month, full-stack, coding bootcamp.
27.09.14 - 31.01.15 A selective, 12-week, full-time course based in London.
- Ruby 2.0
- Rails 4
- HTML5 and ERB
- CSS3
- JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, and Angular
- PostgreSQL
- DataMapper
- Sinatra
- WebSockets
- Unit testing with RSpec and Jasmine
- Acceptance testing with Capybara and Cucumber
- Object oriented design principles
- Foundation and Twitter Bootstrap
- Integration of APIs including Soundcloud, Gmaps, Paperclip, and Twilio
- Version control with GitHub
- Deployment to Heroku
- Agile practices and principles
- Test-driven development
- Pair programming