I've never done a blog like this before and I figure that the first thing I should do is introduce myself and describe what I hope to get out of the coding bootcamp and this blog.
So about myself: I graduated college last year with a degree in web design and a minor in computer engineering. I loved math and science enough to want to study it in college but I had very little idea what I wanted to do afterwards. During my last term I got a contract job as a system administrator at a startup. It was an exciting job where I got to work with members of the web development team. I was intrigued by their work and they suggested I study basic topics like SQL and Ruby on my own. I loved what I learned and I found myself seriously considering a pursuit in that field. Eventually my contract ended and one of my colleagues suggested I attend a coding bootcamp to accelerate my learning in an organized and methodical way. I did some research and I discovered Coding Dojo.
What I hope to get out of Coding Dojo is to become a web developer. A job afterwards would be very nice but I know that I need to love and be good at what I do first before that happens. Coding Dojo offers their students the opportunity to become experts at three full-stacks but more importantly they want to give their students the confidence to pick up other web tools on their own if they want. I was hooked with that and here I am.
One of my hobbies is writing and I want to use this experience as an opportunity to document my personal and professional growth. As I look back at everything I had ever written I notice that some of my best writing occurs when there's an audience. On those ones I get motivated to be as descriptive as possible. So I'm going to do this blog, bare my work for the world to see, and be as descriptive as possible with everything that happens each day. Also, my dad thinks that it could help me stay focused. If that is true then all the more reason to write.
After I signed up I received prep material for the course. The bootcamp will start with two weeks of remote lectures and assignments that will introduce me to the basic tools that'll be used in the course. After that I'll start attending the onsite course for the next three months with each month dedicated to a different full-stack.
With only three days before bootcamp begins I have the following prep work to complete:
- Introduction chapter
- Algorithms
- Codecademy
- Javascript tutorials
I already started with the introduction which, as it sounds, is an introduction to Coding Dojo by the instructors. I'm halfway through it and I bet I could finish it in another hour but I should get to sleep soon. Normally I would stay up a couple of hours longer but I need to train my body to wake up earlier than usual so I could make it to the bootcamp each morning on time.
I'm excited for this blog and I'm even more excited for the Coding Dojo!!!
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