“WTF does run mean?” & other adventures in teaching others to code
summary
Claims that learning to code in 2019 requires more than HTML: expect Ruby, Rails, React, local terminals, Git, CSS tooling, APIs and databases; many resources (Code Academy) help you get through exercises but a boot camp still demands 50 jobs a week of applications afterward and can cost or burn out learners. Transcript cites ~20,000 boot‑camp grads in 2018 and ~65,000 CS grads, a 60% burnout survey; the learner builds working Rails and React apps yet still faces a long job search and shifting standards like React 16.8 and hooks.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:09We all start somewhere
- 2:57I'm an "accidental" engineer
- 3:48As were my tools of the trade
- 6:20Suze's become an (accidental) junior developer checklist
- 8:05James' become a junior developer checklist
- 9:11Choose your own adventure into coding
- 10:26Costs add up
- 11:02James chose bootcamp
- 12:16The journey begins...
- 12:57WTF is "run"?
- 15:30console.log('what?')
- 17:23Job searching is a full-time job
- 18:00Competition is fierce
- 19:29Burnout is...
- 21:28Move fast and... learn things?
- 22:58Impostor syndrome: a refresher
- 23:53Facing some demons
- 26:21Respect (and hire!) your juniors
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