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The Final Hours of Dev Bootcamp - Demo Day
10 weeks are in the books, and for most of us that has meant 80-100 hour weeks, and pushing into the first 10th of the 10,000 hour rule. The culmination of the whole process, arguably more than hiring day tomorrow, is demo day.
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Load balancing, rack, environments, and continuous integration: still learning with three days left. / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/S30HXwHlRB/
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Building Things
Pasted on the wall opposed to the Dev Bootcamp entrance is “Build beautiful and meaningful things.” It’s something of the coding school’s mantra. YCombinator’s is similar – “build something people want.” They’re great expressions, but before Dev Bootcamp I’d have been hard pressed to grasp what it means to build either.
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Why Nobody Should Learn to Code Alone
My sense is that for most people, learning to code was an individual sport, maybe started as hobby, then pursued fulltime either in college or professionally. Learning was driven by sifting through StackOverflow and Google searches and sitting alone in a room with a computer.
However, I’ve learned more about programming in the last week than I did in the past six months.
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Working with an API
“The API is where the power for growth lives on social platforms.” Those are strong words from, Aaron Batalion, the CTO of Living Social – it was the Facebook API where Living Social had its genesis, one which Aaron helped see to fruition. “A new API is a new thing to leverage for growth,” he mused to my cohorts and I last Tuesday evening.
An API is a powerful thing, and I wanted to get my hands dirty with one.
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Git and Bundler: Standing on Someone Else’s Shoulders
We live in a pretty phenomenal time to learn to code. It’s never really been easier. The languages are readable. The resources (Codeschool, Codecademy, Dev Bootcamp, StackOverflow, among many others) endless.
When first learning to code, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the complexity. Actually, that never really changes.
But we sit on the shoulders of giants. Linus Torvalds. Matz. DHH. Jesse Farmer.