Adoptable Goats Near Me: What I Googled the Year I Became a Developer
summary
Chronicles moving from teaching to web dev through 18-week Dev Bootcamp experience: nine weeks remote then nine weeks onsite with 16-hour days. Learns PHP and Drupal by Googling, builds a location-based storytelling final project, and lands a first job after a chance conversation at a burrito place. Uses specific learning tactics — change physical context, frequent self-testing, explain concepts to nontechnical listeners, and mentor others — and implements practical tasks like writing a cron job, learning by failure to make debugging durable.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and housekeeping
- 2:16Who is Kim Cram
- 4:06Life changes in 2016
- 7:43Deciding to become a developer
- 9:11Coding bootcamp experience
- 15:39Learning through failure
- 20:04First job and enthusiasm
- 21:51Mentorship and learning
- 26:48Community and opportunities
- 28:35Q&A
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