One of the reasons I wanted to do a bootcamp is my own overflow of application ideas. This past week is the first time that I felt like I could start to implement one of my ideas using JavaScript. I’ll be posting a bit more about that in the near future, but first I wanted to share a little bit about the app ideas that are fighting for my cognitive process.
If you’re interested in any of these projects, please let me know!
This was another roller-coaster week of Angular. One of the big dichotomies of the week was our variety of instructors. In the end, I definitely felt like I learned a lot, but it’s largely an ephemeral feeling with very little working code.
Our first introduction to promises and $q left most of us in a serious state of “?huh?”. After asking a couple of mentors and still not feeling like I had even a tenuous grasp, I was starting to worry. But then we were graced with Ryan Shaw’s leadership!
This week felt like an Angular roller-coaster. In the end, I seem to be able to make Angular apps, but I definitely still don’t understand Angular.
There are at least four different reasons for this situation: prerequisite expectations, inconsistent documentation, instructional style, and an off-week for my brain.
For those that have read my previous posts, I’m finally starting to link to the projects that I’ve completed. This week’s post and my week one post have a results section at the very end that highlights and links to these projects. I should have week two and week three done next weekend.
This post touches on week three but mostly covers my thoughts on the bootcamp experience thus far. At this point, my cohort has finished three weeks out of our twelve weeks at DevMountain.
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This blog is primarily to document my journeys through the lands of JavaScript, but I’m sure I’ll occasionally deviate.
Last week was our only week on html and css. The first three lectures this week felt like excessively redundant reviews of the pre-course work material. (Just to be clear, I’m not saying that Trevor or Jake’s presentations were bad!) The exercises that accompanied those lesson were much more useful as refreshers.
But then we hit the callback homework and Saturday morning’s exercise!
Between homework, classwork, job, and just life in general, there won’t be a lot of time to do recaps. Regardless, I’m going to try to knock out an entry each week. It will probably be quick and dirty, with lots of room for improvement, but it will be better than nothing. :-)
Week one was spent, with Cahlan and Britton, covering the fundamentals of git, Github, HTML5, and CSS, and slightly beyond fundamental CSS. Most of our exercises focused on writing the HTML and CSS files for webpage mock-ups. My favorite exercise was definitely the last one.