YANA CHEN

EXPERIENCE

learned more about Ruby:
- paired with another Recurser to implement Hash#unshift, making Ruby more symmetrical
learned the basics of how Ruby tokenizes, parses, and compiles code from "Ruby Under a Microscope" by Pat Shaughnessy
paired and soloed on Advent of Code 2018, exploring various CS fundamentals through puzzles
- day 7 part 1: implemented a node struct in Ruby to represent the instructions, later learning this specific type of graph is called a DAG, directed acyclic graph
- day 7 part 2: made a scheduler for parallelizing work among various elves
- day 8 part 1: implemented a checksum for a tree structure
made Space Invaders for terminals using only Ruby standard library; no gems or libraries
explored code readability
- practiced writing code for readability through exercises in "99 Bottles of Object Oriented Programing" by Sandi Metz, realizing that the promised savings of DRY come at a cost: a level of indirection, abstraction; premature DRY often decrease readability
- explored interpretations of "explicit over implicit" from Zen of Python

helped build hoist-react, a data visualization library built on top of React used internally and by developers at our client companies to create dashboards and analytic tools
modularized systems for controlling component behavior, resolving subtle bugs (for example, preventing non-resizable containers from being resized by dragging invisible borders)
created a new demo app and usage guide for hoist-react components, which made it dramatically easier for our clients to understand the library and ways to use it
extended an open-source JavaScript library that we used for grid display, giving our clients more control over how their data was visualized

collected and analyzed electric organ discharge patterns using legacy MATLAB applications
built on top of legacy features to improve UX, including automating first pulse detection

deepened students understanding of organic chemistry foundations
enriched students critical thinking through retrosynthetic analysis and molecular modeling

Immersive Full Stack Web Development: Ruby, Rails, React, Redux
Built Looper, a Ruby loops visualizer. Looper accepts a .each ruby block and displays the values of variables at each iteration. Used Ruby, Rails, React, Redux, and MaterialUI