This is for all my DevMountain cohort members - compare your GitHub Contributions graphic (i.e. github.com/your_username) to mine - https://github.com/metasean . See all those greenish blocks on the right-hand side of my contributions graphic? If you don’t have a lot of those green blocks, then this post is for you!
DevMountain - Week Eight
In our last week of classes we covered Test Driven Development (TDD) with Jake Trent and Firebase with Chris Esplin.
DevMount - Week Seven
Last week our focus was on databases.
Databases hold a special place in my heart. When I was on active duty, one of my jobs was to create a Lotus Approach database to replace a mainframe database. Long story short, I ended up entering my current profession primarily because of the power I saw in databases (at least, that’s how I would have described it at the time, now I’d describe it more as ‘the power of big data’).
All The Mistakes
While starting my stage-hand project I ran into several ‘black box’ problems. After spending a frustratingly inordinate amount of time ripping code apart, I was able to identify two separate problems. One was an easy to make mistake that I thought I had checked for early in the debugging process. The other problem didn’t make any sense at all, but thankfully I stumbled across an explanation that made a load of sense.
DevMountain - First Half
Our second quarter at DevMountain started off like a bad roller-coaster ride. Thankfully, this last week was like the gentle clacking as the car returned to the platform. Where I had a hard-time following Angular, Node was –by and large– super-easy.
DevMountain - Week Five
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.
Promises and $q
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!
DevMountain - Week Four
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.
DevMountain - First Quarter
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.
DevMountain - Week Two
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!