About Me

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Andrew Kim is a full stack developer and a recent Dev BootCamp graduate. He made the transition from dentistry when he decided to choose a career that he is truly passionate about.

Andrew was born in Flushing, New York but was raised in South Korea until college. He graduated from Syracuse University with a major in biology and he obtained his masters in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Medicine and Dentistry in NJ.

Some of his hobbies are coding, snowboarding, and playing basketball. Most importantly, he collects Jordan shoes and loves to share the most unique ones with his friends. He is not only athletic but surprisingly very sensitive - he is a musical prodigy in piano.

Projects

WalkAbout

WalkAbout is a mobile tour guide iOS application with narrated audio content that triggers at specified locations. Built in React Native.

  • Learned React Native over two days to launch an iOS application, having never worked with it prior to that time.
  • Built the main index page displaying a full screen map of current user’s location
  • Worked on design and platform to enhance UX/UI portion of the application
  • Developed the algorithms and functional codes for the application
  • GitHub Link

    • Survey Code Monkey Gorillas

    Survey Code Monkey Gorilla is a simple survey style SurveyMonkey clone built on Sinatra as a learning exercise

  • Identified and corrected bugs to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of application
  • Utilized a combination of pure JavaScript and AJAX to achieve the desired effects
  • Produced CSS to achieve identical rendering
  • GitHub Link

    • Blog Posts

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    Git: Version Control

    Version control will let you save your changed data points when working in group projects of coding. It is sort of like checkpoints when you're playing games. It will let you go back where you want if you mess up the current versions. Also, Read More..

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    Ruby: Arrays and Hashes

    Arrays and hashes are both collections used to store and retrieve data. They both hold objects such as integers, floats, booleans, and strings. There are many differeces between the two. As you might have already noticed, Read More..

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    Ruby: Classes

    Ruby is an object-oriented programming language. It is based on concept of ‘object’ which are data structure containing data in the form of methods. Ruby lets us allows to add methods to an already loaded class or create our own classes where we can create custom-made methods with endless possibilities. Read More..



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