A Day In The Life Of A Coding Bootcamp Student

i start every single day at the gym literally i sleep here 4 am to 7 am i'm doing leak code back i usually like to start my day on the couch going through my plan for the day which i plan on notion but i'm running a little bit late so no couch time for me today is pretty simple i got the coding boot camp throughout the day and then i have a soccer game i want to play and then i'm going to come back home and do some dash structures and algorithms and a little bit of coding before i watch netflix and go to sleep so let's uh let's get started doing that so it dawned upon me as you know things dawn upon people who are open and willing to being donned upon that if i want to be this guy who comes on the internet comes on the youtubes and talks about how to get started in tech how to start your career i should probably get some experience on each of the different paths that you can use to get into tech so i did go to college for a semester back in 2015 in a computer science program so i'm basically a professional on that front i am currently a self-taught software engineer in between jobs at the moment but uh a self-taught software engineer nonetheless and i have no experience absolutely zero in this whole coding boot camp realm that's why i'm super glad that coding dojo decided to sponsor this video super pumped so now i get to sit in on a coding bootcamp and get some more insights to what a coding bootcamp actually is how they learn and how they do assignments so i'm pretty pumped so that i can give some more better rounded insight to you all that are watching this video and following me along on my progression as a software engineer i hate the mornings by the way fun fact almost time to get started coding dojo has a ton of different course offerings i'm obviously going to take the software engineering bootcamp offering because i like to i like to code i believe i'm going to be shadowing like week three or four of the software engineering cohort that means this week i'll be going over web fundamentals which is going to be pretty great because i haven't written like production code in a while because i am on vacation so i will definitely take the chance to brush up i'm going to get out of my robe though because i want to at least give the appearance that i'm semi-professional all right we're back and we're ready for action yeah let's get started 2 30 baby won't you meet me you know what it is we're going to be doing our morning algorithms this one's gonna be a little bit different we're gonna be talking about javascript objects so apparently they start most mornings off with the morning algorithm this is web fundamental so i expect some javascript up in this thing i'll try not to chime in because i'm a bit farther than my second week of web thought and i want to see what they can do and what they've learned so far but if they need the assistance i will try to guide them in the right direction so let's do some pair programming so the group i'm with is pretty much sailing through our morning algorithm set which is pretty impressive seeing as they only been in javascript land for like a couple of weeks i got to pair and for that last bonus question they just needed a little guidance a little pushing in the right direction and bing boom pal they were able to get the solution which is we love that i really like how you're not just sitting in lectures for eight hours but you learn something in a lecture and then you go practice it right away so it's a mental in your brain because if you do just eight hours of tutorials or lectures it's not gonna stick so this is uh pretty sick but i don't wanna miss too much so i'm gonna get back to it so we just got pulled back into the main room from our morning algorithm pair programming breakout sessions the students are gonna talk through their solutions so we can go over where we went right how our algorithms run against edge cases and so on and so forth so we finished up going over all of our answers as a group and all of our shortcomings and our long comings whatever whatever it is when you do really good and i like to stretch my legs a little bit so i'm gonna do a little thing called tabatas which is just a four minute exercise to wake me up because i did have coffee but i also like to you know get my blood pumping just a little bit you know start a day this right here is my yoga studio very very very fancy but yeah this is where i'm going to do my tabatas get my blood pumping and then make it back for the next lecture or i don't know what's next but i want to make it back for whatever's next now we're working with apis we just finished going over arrays and object literals i'm listening in again now we're switching over to the fun part in my opinion which is playing with apis making a beautiful website out of information that we didn't have to create from scratch so right now we're right now we're using the pokemon api to make a pokemon website where you can look at the images of a pokemon it's basically a pokedex so that's pretty fun we're learning about async away fetch get all that cool stuff in javascript all right it is lunch and lab time and i'm pretty serious about my fitness so i eat a salad every single day so i am about to put on a coke because it's cold outside and go get my salad [Music] yeah could i get a kicking chicken where are you great how are you thanks thank you this is how you do transitions no they put a ton of fries in my salad but i'm not gonna send it back because i'm not that guy so might as well eat it yeah management is gonna be hearing about this one because this doesn't even look anything like a salad ah it doesn't taste anything like a salad either i'm not sure if i could even go on oh i ate that way too fast but let's get back to it because you know the bacon doesn't fry itself or something it is 2 p.m and the instructor's going over what we're going to expect for the next coming weeks so he's going over things like what stacks we're learning what projects we can learn frameworks libraries so on and so forth with blocks like this i really like to switch up my environment so i'm not stuck in these four walls all day spice up my day a little bit so i'm gonna head downstairs and tune into this conversation on my couch because it's a bit more comfy than this chair all right let's go first of all what's gonna happen tomorrow you'll be learning python it's gonna be lovely it's gonna be a good time you're gonna be learning a new stack so you're gonna have to excuse the slouch because i am comfy but yeah tomorrow they're gonna be going over bootstrap doing a learning algorithm and then watching the senior class graduate they showcase like what applications they built i don't think i'll be around for that day but it still sounds pretty cool but they're finishing up on web fundamentals which they call web fun which is so much easier than saying fundamentals and so much more fun anyway and then next week they're gonna roll into python and get new instructors and whatnot but yeah that wraps up the uh what to expect block we're just talking about what we're going to expect very well named i might add and i'm about to head upstairs to learn some more coding stuff let's go back to my station upstairs because we're gonna do some more hands-on stuff uh we're learning the terminal and how to navigate it create files create folders delete files delete folders you know rmrf everything fun fact the government which was my first job you don't always have access to the terminal so i didn't know any terminal when i got to my second position so this is great that we're learning this now because it's super important so apparently we're also going to learn git today i had to go back and learn software development all over again i would probably learn get like almost a month after learning the code so i can you know version control roll my stuff back and not have to delete all of my projects when i can't figure out what the bug is and next up or or last either way the last thing that we're going to do today we're gonna have a lab and from what i gather it's like this free time where you can either pair program with another student to work on a project together or you could fly solo work on your own projects or you could even hang out in the main zoom room and talk to the instructor about career advice coding advice literally anything i'm gonna finish my day with coding dojo in the main zoom room just hanging out getting to know the students answering some of their questions i just like talking to people so that's what i'm gonna do to finish up my day actually really impressed with the questions that people were asking you they're like challenge you on like edge cases of stuff i'm like some pretty good developer thinking already week two right all right yeah it's rounding about five o'clock which means it's the end of the day i had some really great talks with the students answered some questions for them and i got to know the instructors a lot more which are hilarious and the students from the senior class actually came back to just hang out with the instructors i want to go over everything i learned about coding boot camps and coding dojo specifically but i have a soccer game at six so i'm gonna do that real quick and hopefully i can kick the ball in the right direction anyway after that we'll talk about what i learned today i'm not sure how we won especially with me kicking the ball but we won anyway i was gonna do a review of like everything i learned about coding bootcamps like right now but at the end of the day an instructor asked me to come tomorrow i mean yeah i don't have any problems coming around like it's pretty cool to see to check out like the graduation which they show like a bunch of their project that they've been working on and it's like a showcase and then the graduation festival ceremony ceremony festival yeah but i'm gonna check that out because that sounds fun so you know really exciting and we're happy to have a bunch of curious passionate awesome people in the field i wasn't planning on shadowing this coding boot camp for more than one day and i'm really glad that i did come back because i got to see what like the students or the graduates are truly capable of after like going through the whole entire coding dojo bootcamp coding dojo did a really good job creating a like community it's really hard to do that virtually i know everyone had to make a huge shift over these last couple of years but coding dojo did a phenomenal phenomenal job putting a community together where people feel safe people feel like they can learn laugh joke and everything in between i could tell they did a great job building a community because at 9 15 a.m right when the day started students were like asking questions not just like random questions but like questions that were like challenging edge cases what if this what if that it's a beautiful thing as a self-taught software engineer when learning to code it was so hard to figure out what to do when i got stuck who to talk to when i got stuck and even like if i mastered a topic what do i learn after that and that's something that i wish i would have had a community that i could have gone to and practiced with learn from grown with but i i didn't but they have that here so that is a huge plus and outside of the really great community that coding dojo has the projects that the graduating students were able to build were by far my favorite and most impressive thing that a student showed during his graduation was he made chess i'm talking he had a front-end that worked it had every checks and balances that you can't move yourself into check castle you could do all the things you could do in chess and he was storing all that in a back end like it was a full stack chess application and it was incredible and even better than just like having a really great full stack application he was able to explain every single line of it from front end to back into everything in the middle so that was that was i was it was it was very impressive all in all i'm really glad that i got to experience what a coding bootcamp looks like like what coding dojo looks like because this was amazing i didn't know that this whole world existed i knew about coding bootcamps but i didn't really know about coding bootcamps so thank you so much codingdojo for letting me tag along and learn more about coding camps that's going to help me tremendously as i try to help other people get started in tech and if you are one of those people looking to get your start in tech and you want to go to a coding bootcamp from the bottom of my deepest part of my heart from everything i've seen today and yesterday i highly recommend you check out coding dojo so check out my link in the description below to learn more information about coding dojo thank you so much for watching if you haven't done so already hit that thumbs up button if you haven't done so part two hit the subscribe button and if you did both of those things then thank you very much i will see you on the next one

Channel: Jeremiah Peoples

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Length: 12min 32sec (752 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 10 2021