Spencer Corwin's Blog

Spencer Corwin

Written by Spencer Corwin, web developer for hire.

How to Create a Mind

April 05, 2019

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” — Alan Turing In my first…

How I Built My First Full-Stack Web Application

January 31, 2019

The Project As I worked on the Free Code Camp curriculum I knew I wanted to work on my own projects. I had built up a list of cool ideas…

How To Connect A React Front-End to an Express Back-End

January 10, 2019

After at least a week of repeatedly banging my head against a wall I have finally, successfully connected my React front-end to my Express…

Completing Free Code Camp

December 26, 2018

On December 19th, 2018 I completed the freeCodeCamp (FCC) curriculum to earn their full stack certification. FCC estimates that this…

How to Remove All Distractions and Code Full-Time

November 26, 2018

I’m living the island life. Not the Hawaiian Island life. The Santa Catalina Island life. Catalina Island is an island off the coast of…

How I Decided to Quit My Job as a Banker and Learn to Code

November 12, 2018

In 2014 I graduated from Whitman College with a degree in economics and was off into the real world. Like many graduates, I didn’t know…