ELizabeth Sanger

Developer, Writer, Soup-Maker & Home to Many Cats

Welcome!

As a former communications professor and professional writer, I have always been fascinated by the ways in which language coheres into meaning. It took a few hours fiddling with JavaScript for me to realize that development is a natural extension of what I've always wanted to do: understand and communicate complexities.

I graduated from Nashville Software School's Day Cohort 15 (C#/ASP.Net server-side) in January 2017, at which time I was honored to be awarded Most Valuable Teammate, given to a student "for showing exemplary leadership abilities, helping teammates achieve success, and assisting anyone needing help." If I can channel that passion into business solutions that make a positive difference in my community, all the better.

Plus, coding is just really, really fun.

Projects

It's CHORE Turn!

Inspired by the vague hostility and ample bias with which so many household chores are delegated, It's CHORE Turn demystifies the decision process of whose turn it is to clean the litterbox. Households can register, assign members chores, rate chores by their irritation factor, track and earn points for chore completion, and assign unexpected tasks accordingly. I built the app with AngularJS, Materialize, and Charts.js and used Firebase to deliver persistent user data retrieved from a flatly structured, non-relational database.

The Occasion

My server-side capstone at Nashville Software School was pure indulgence: A curated poetry database served through my favorite back-end framework, ASP.NET. The Occasion's users can browse poems by multiple forms, topics, or moods; read a randomly selected poem; and generate custom haikus or sonnets. I built the app in Visual Studio 2015 and used Microsoft Entity Framework to construct the database, with Identity Framework for user authorization.

Welcome to Bangazon!

The second half of the NSS Cohort 15 bootcamp (server-side) took place in a simulated Agile/SCRUM team environment; the Bangazon website, a consumer-facing eBay clone, was my team's first project and introduction to ASP.NET, SQLite, Microsoft Entity Framework, and LINQ. We used the singleton and MVC design patterns to maintain a consistent single-user state throughout the application and wrote the app in VS Code. Features include account registration and form validation.

Be in Touch!

Whether you're looking for a developer, professional writer, private tutor, extra cat, or bespoke soup, I'd love to hear from you.

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