Adoptable Goats Near Me: What I Googled the Year I Became a Developer
summary
A music teacher becomes a developer after personal crisis, took custody of a nine-year-old, then enrolls in an intensive 18-week bootcamp that yields multiple Ruby projects and work with Ruby, HTML, JavaScript; learning comes from deliberately failing, testing recall before consulting docs, varying study environments, and explaining code to a child to prove mastery. Final project avoids Angular, a networking conversation over a burrito produces the first job, and immediate mentoring and Drupal contribution round out the path.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:18NERDERY
- 3:12There is something to learn from every experience.
- 7:57Failure provides context. Discomfort provides a catalyst.
- 11:31Learning is a process...
- 14:33Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
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