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750Words day 18: The Iron Yard and boot camps

750Words day 18: The Iron Yard and boot camps

The Iron Yard announced that it is closing all of their campuses. The current cohort is the last cohort. These are my thoughts on boot camps and degrees. As before, since this is my entry for 750words.com, I do not edit. I’ll add links, but I’m not poring over and wrangling these words to better reflect what I meant. Stream-o-consciousness, baby! Swim up with the salmon and avoid the bears! With…

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Almost five months after graduating from The Iron Yard, I have decided to revisit old homework assignments. Most were due the by midnight the day that they were assigned, the exception being Thursdays’ were due Sundays by midnight. I know that for many I’ll just want to restyle them or expand them to fulfill what I want them do to or look like. I’m not at the bootcamp anymore, so they are no…

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First day....

So, today was my first day at The Iron Yard. I showed up 30 minutes early, which I never do for anything. Unless, I actually want to be there. So, I walked in, said "What's Up" to everyone that was there so far. It was my teacher, the other class teacher (Back-End Development) and another student. The Back-End Dev teacher was making pancakes for us on coincidentally, Pancake Day. I don't think he meant to do that, I think today just happened to be the day he wanted to make pancakes for us, because, it was our first day. So, I make some tea (Green Tea is where it's at), and get myself situated. Set up my computer, log in, and wait for the rest to show up. Some of the other students show up about 5 minutes late(on the first day I remind you)(-___-). So, the lecture starts and of course the teacher and our campus coordinator remind us that we can get kicked out for being tardy because of rules set by the state education board and also, you will fall behind if you end up missing a day. We start the lesson and we learn how to use Git and GitHub, and some basic HTML and CSS stuff. Our first assignment was create a website about ourselves using HTML/CSS. Knock that work out before I even left. The other "Adventure Assignment" was debugging a HTML file that was horrendously filled with horrible syntax and the layout was all over the place. Finished most of that, but when I got to a place where I had trouble, the teacher had left. I'll bring it up tomorrow after the lecture. All in all, first day was a success. Let's see what tomorrow has for us.

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Today is Sunday, July 24, and I am putting the finishing touches on my first weekend project. I built a really cool website this time, and the difference between this one and my first one is huge. It was a really long week, but it was very exciting. My favorite bit of code that I learned this week is how to do hover effects for links like this: 

.media li:hover {

color: #ff0000;

}

.bottombar .imagecontainer{  background: url("../assets/article-image-1.jpg");  background-size: cover;  background-repeat: no-repeat;  width: 25%;height: 400px;  color: blue; }

I will try to do a weekly post on this blog at least. I would promise more, but we are all so busy with coding bootcamp that sparing the extra time daily might be tough. Feel free to ask me questions about my experience! 

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Cohort 5 group photo @theironyard @ToniAliberti

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Have you ever wondered whether there was a common set of characteristics that apps which capture and maintain the top ranks in the app store share? &nbsp

Found this awesome blog article from Incipia. Established in 2013, Incipia is a 100% bootstrapped company with a shared, deep-rooted drive to create innovative mobile products (as stated on the company website).  As I come to a close to my journey of laying the foundation to my future mobile app development career, I will continue to post interesting articles and document my progress by showcasing apps that I have completed and/or am working on. I hope you will find this online space as one that is informative, inspiring, as well as influential. 

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Memorial Day Weekend.

This Memorial day weekend resulted in some much needed decompression time for me. As we completed week 7, it’s crazy how one can look up and think “wow”… as I hadn’t see much of friends or family in several weeks. As much as I feel that a great deal of learning and refining the skills that come with coding come with repetition and trial and error, I believe that sometimes you also have to consider taking a step back as well. And that’s what I did. But, there is also a looming crunch on the horizon, as we close out our lecture phase and begin to prepare for mobile engineering final projects. So far, I have at least five ideas I’m pondering on and it will perhaps be the most challenging, yet most exciting part of my Iron Yard experience. I will just say I look forward to it… so, bring it on!!!

(pictured above- having a boiled crab feast, New Orleans style, with good friends for the holiday)