I recently tried my hands at a technical interview at a company to see what more recent front-end interviews are like. It was a good way to get my feet wet and see where interviewing for the rest of the industry has gone, being that Google's format
If you have the skills to make furniture out of wood, you probably have the skills to at least get started in professional carpentry. Programming is similar in that if you have decent programming skills and a body of work to show for it, you can probably get a job
Choice is generally good. Choice is what gives us autonomy and a sense of control over ourselves. But choice can sometimes fail to make us feel happy and fulfilled. Having too many choices, or even just one more choice than we can reasonably handle, is enough to throw us down
I've previously talked about bootcamps in the general sense. That doesn't exactly provide a great point of reference to how a specific bootcamp fares. So this post will be exactly that and talk to my experience at Hack Reactor. 3 Things I Liked about Hack Reactor
After deciding that you want to attend a coding bootcamp, you'll obviously want to begin doing your research on available options. There are a wide variety of bootcamps with different schedules and curriculums. The specific curriculum and schedule that suits you best is going to be predicated on
"Ding!" I can vividly recall the sound that the computer made when I received a new chat message from a customer. My first job out of college was to work as a live chat agent in customer support for a web hosting company. I hated that sound. Not
As a former bootcamp instructor and a former bootcamp student, I believe I have a unique perspective to this question. A quick summary. Only attend a bootcamp if: 1. You've done your due diligence on the bootcamp and know that they are selective about who they accept. 2.
What do you learn when you pursue something? There's obviously the skill itself at face value. As a musician, you learn to play music. As a programmer you learn to code. As a writer, you learn to write. There are intricacies within each subdomain that apply to the
When choosing a coding bootcamp, one of the first places you might look is the published outcome statistics. However, while some stats make for nice marketing, they don't tell the whole story. Here's an example: Each program typically publishes a "graduation rate" to indicate
Reason 1: Overcome frustration Programming is about constantly being told that our assumptions are incorrect. This can be a bit frustrating at times. One of the ways that frustration rears its ugly head is when we're unsure what are efforts are for. Focusing on the long-term means