In Bootcamp
In Bootcamp
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In Bootcamp podcast is about Matthew Petschl’s experience at a local coding bootcamp and journey to software engineer, featuring Ryan Rampersad with industry commentary.
In Bootcamp #26: The End
Group Project 3 Deployment? Contributions Last minute work Presentation Q&A Grade: A Graduation from bootcamp Final Photo Bootcamp feelings Upcoming plans MidwestJS Instructor’s lead for Leadpages Udemy Practical and realistic practice using The Nexus Tittler Hours and hours of coding!
Aug 13, 2019
33 min
In Bootcamp #25: The Last Week
Final Group project is a solo one It’s actually even worse, it’s become a “Ryan” project Other team member contributions Committed GitHub repo of another project without changing anything Slacked some code instead of putting in git Created more artwork and logos Nobody has used the GitHub issues or project board Time sinks Spent more than an hour trying to kill a service Spent half an hour to build from source Broke the entire Node package Zone out in front of the monitor  GitHub insight A cool feature of owning a repository are insights See exactly how many clones and pulls to a repository there have been Final day Thursday July 11th Future Short term Long term
Jul 18, 2019
26 min
In Bootcamp #24: Mail Server
Follow up From Brandon @brandon_mn on Twitter In bootcamp #22 follow-up: – folks ask me about the U of M bootcamp and it’s quality and I’ve always been like “Not sure – it’s a bootcamp, have fun!’ but thanks to matt’s feedback I won’t be saying that – ughhhhhh java Computer science unit was super short  Big-O notation Felt like Computer Science coverage from Bootcamp was very lacking High School AP Computer was better for Computer Science Bought a udemy course to bolster coverage Mail server Mail server using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL Why not use MailChimp or Sendgrid? MailChimp apparently still requires mail server locally “You don’t know what you don’t know until you can’t do it” Group project 3 Not going so well Contributions are mediocre right now Matt skipped HackerX Excuse #0 Excuse #2 Excuse #3
Jul 11, 2019
24 min
In Bootcamp #23: Computer Science
Notes: Computer Science Sorting Insert Selection Linear Binary Quick Overview on Big-O   Time and Space complexity briefly These are on interviews often Group project 3 update Allegedly next week: other languages Ruby Python Also next week HackerX in June Attributions: Aether Theories by Vidian via CCMixter
Jul 7, 2019
23 min
In Bootcamp #22: Java
React is done/ few last minute things Redux not covered Context not covered No hooks Java It was hard to get started; installation was difficult Examples are not followed up on now Learning about packages; with the classpath Ryan shared Spring Initializer “What is the world?” Changed the course syllabus Done with Java “Building webapps with Java” basically cut from the program Java homework is optional Project 3 Not going well already Thinking about automated deployments
Jun 29, 2019
22 min
In Bootcamp #21: Prime Digital
React State <Dog name=”roxy” age={9} /> Using `.map` like a pro Used components like a beast Destructuring Chat with the TA TA took Prime Digital UMN Bootcamp was very different in comparison He took the fulltime version for 20 weeks He would recommend Prime Digital Profolio Professor suggested scraping the existing portfolio Trying a Gatsby template instead Good idea – except for keeping the template as is Gatsby starters Professor
Jun 20, 2019
24 min
In Bootcamp #20: React
React week begins Saturday class Back to the old room, so much room npx sudo fail React is cool Playing with HTML in JavaScript Learning JSX foundations Styles with JSX Professor: Redux is dead Professor: React native is bad React Native What We Learned After 6 Months
Jun 13, 2019
20 min
In Bootcamp #19: Open Source North
Two class periods off No Saturday or Tuesday classes due to the Memorial Day holiday More MongoDB Mongodb-driver Moved away from just using the shell Just under 6% market share  Mongoose Everything just works! Open source north   Hi Aron Turkey and cookies The world is big I did not really learn anything, just got to see what I need to go home a google, Scala Apache kafka Knative Glue ≠ null Firecode Inconsolata Dank Ryan’s favorite talks HackerX again someday Late June; still not quite done with bootcamp yet
Jun 8, 2019
34 min
In Bootcamp #18: Mongo
Mongodb & Robo Mongo No defined shape, you can do anything Windows struggles to handle Mongo Group project 2 Not much experience prior to the project with Express and Seqelize Passport threw everyone for a loop This is a pandemic issue in JavaScript today; very little documentation and cookbook examples are available and kept up-to-date Some team members did not contribute very much Some team members were instructed about an issue but then did it again later The team received an A on this project What did I learn? Travis and Git repositories Nobody likes to communicate “I don’t know what I’m doing” Group project 3 React MongoDB Open Source North
May 30, 2019
31 min
In Bootcamp #17: Maximum Development Efficiency
In Class Unit tests Endpoint testing Chai, mocha Group Project 2 5 days left and still have nothing to show 2 group members not working on it Team members misunderstood SQL file Breakdown of team communication and tasks Teacher uses my computer Asked for help with Husky Brian doesn’t use Adblock NoScript; which nobody should use in their primary browser Jobs Follow up from HackerX Associate Software Engineer & Customer Support Java oriented International Decision Systems, Group Customer Support in the title is very dismaying The job description… mentions a technology not to be used on the web Job posting literally asks for a Bachelor’s degree in computer science Location is a pro and a con You are NOT looking for a job, you are looking to begin your career
May 24, 2019
28 min
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