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./bootcampSeries/moduleOne: a retrospect

obYesterday marked the official completion of module one here at Galvanize. HTML, CS, Javascript, and jQuery made up the past 7 weeks of my life. It has certainly been an experience. From adjusting to my new routine, to meeting my awesome new classmates, to learning how to learn, to starting to delve into new technologies head-on. At risk of sounding like a broken record: it’s been crazy. I’ve really enjoyed module one, front-end development interests me and sparks my natural creative intuition. I’ve really enjoyed adding my own visual influence to assignments and pages. It’s probably too soon to tell but I think this is what I want to focus on. Back-end development still seems... scary to me. But we haven’t even began learning about that yet so I’ll just keep an open mind and see how it all goes. Emotionally, this experience has had a lot of chutes and ladders. Ladders when I accomplish a goal I set for myself, when I design a beautiful page just the way I imagined it when first establishing its <html> tags, when I show friends something I’ve made and they compliment me. But the chutes are unique. They are “formative chutes”. This immersive career experience has made me grow up fast. I spend my day developing skills meant for a fulfilling employment in the near future, I daydream about the kind of company culture I want to fit in to, I sit around imagining this great future I’m going to have. My dreams and desires have become practical and realistic. This means I no longer enjoy the things that not too long ago made up the entirety of my life aka the San Francisco party scene. I’m realizing that I’m rapidly moving into a new phase of my life which consequently means I’m outgrowing a lot of people rapidly as well. I want to be surrounded by driven, career-oriented people. This is the antithesis of a lot of the people I was surrounded by for the past few years working as an event photographer. It’s bittersweet in its own way, but I know it’s all for the best. Anyway that’s enough of that! I will be making a post soon regarding our front-end project and the virtual pet I created using all of the technologies we learned during module one!

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./bootcampSeries/weekFour:

And just as I expected, I completely forgot to post on this blog after the first week. I really want to be better at maintaining this thing weekly so I’ll start with a re-cap of what we’ve spent the past few weeks doing!

More HTML/ CSS , Client-Side JavaScript, J-Query, Object Oriented Programming, Callbacks, etc.

The sink-or-swim feeling of the program has definitely kicked in. Concepts like OOP and Callbacks are very complex and multi-facted and there’s just no way that I could wrap my head around those concepts in a single lecture. It’s become important for me to research and study outside the classroom. The Eloquent Javascript book continues to be a powerful ally in my journey.

As far as the day-to-day goes: it’s become ingrained in my life. Waking up at 6AM is no longer novel. I’m in bed by 10PM and asleep by 11 most nights. My body wakes up like clockwork at 2AM and at 6AM every single night... I don’t quite understand it, but hey it works.

I have also been able to get into the swing of balancing health with the immersive nature of this program. Every morning I wake up with just enough time for some morning yoga which helps me feel more limber and active before a full day of sitting at a computer. I also track my calories via myfitnesspal so that I know what I’m putting into my body and can better manage my intake of nutrients. Another thing I’ve begun doing is getting off muni early and walking for 30 minutes back to my house - I wan’t to eventually work my way up to an hour of walking every day.

The hardest part of the first month has been completely re-adjusting my life from what used to be the norm for me: sleeping in until noon and staying out until 3AM. I’ve hardly gone out since the bootcamp started and my liver and wallet certainly appreciate it.

Welp that’s enough for now. Tomorrow I will have reached my one month milestone within the program *with perfect attendance might I add* - only five months to go!

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./bootcampSeries/dayOne

And so it begins. Today was the first day in what will be a six month journey learning how to program at Galvanize in San Francisco. I’ve been working towards getting into a coding bootcamp since January of this year. It feels bizzare to finally be starting.

Day one was about what I would expect. A breakdown of the program, name games so we could all get to know each other, and a tour of the facilities.

Galvanize as a business works in three pillars: curriculum, companies, and capital. Curriculum entails the program I am in, companies entails the office spaces that they rent out in the building to various start ups that have outgrown their garage, and then with the profits they make they invest their capital into start ups and tech companies they find promising. This focus on fostering a community was very important to me when deciding which bootcamp I would attend. Walking around the building and rubbing elbows with individuals who have experienced success in the tech sector energizes me to make the most put of this opportunity.

The building itself is beautiful. Five stories, free Sight Glass coffee throughout, various desks with high end computer peripherals, and a gorgeous open air rooftop.

All my classmates are phenomenal! As I look around, I notice that not one person is the same. Different ages from different backgrounds raised in different cultures. Various parts of the world are represented from Texas the way to Thailand. Everyone is very sociable and easy to talk to. Most importantly, I can tell that everyone is driven and here for the same reason I am: to crush it in the program and get a killer jib in the tech industry.

As far as this series of blogs go, I plan on updating then weekly as well as answering any questions anyone may have. I know that researching different bootcamps can get overwhelming and that the admissions process can seem daunting, so I hope to provide a resource to other aspiring programmers.

Our instructors say that these six months will fly by. I’ll let you know.

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./bootcampSeries/dayOne

Day one was about what I would expect. A breakdown of the program, name games so we could all get to know each other, and a tour of the facilities.

The building itself is beautiful. Five stories, free Sight Glass coffee throughout, various desks with high end computer peripherals, and a gorgeous open air rooftop.

Our instructors say that these six months will fly by. I’ll let you know.

#bootcamp series #galvanize #san francisco #web development #coding bootcamp #gschool

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