What you'll learn

Identify the best practices to ensure your success before and during a bootcamp
Explain the common mistakes and how to avoid them
Design a plan for how to stay organized and maintain hight rate of learning during your immersive training experience.
List what skills employers are looking for you to gain during the learning phase.

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 34m total length

Introduction0:37
Discover proven tips from a software veteran to break into tech, prepare effectively, avoid common mistakes, and launch a successful software engineering career.

Karate Kid0:59
Traditional classroom vs bootcamp4:05
Its like the karate kid3:41
Explore how slow, methodical learning builds karate foundations, using a running journal or video blog to track incremental progress, clarify technical language, and stay motivated through doubts.
How to be successful in the bootcamp and land a tech job15:44
The 3 things employers are looking for2:38
Demonstrate problem solving by breaking big problems into parts, show collaboration and growth mindset, and prove learning agility and grit to fit in and thrive with a team.
The most common mistakes students make8:13
Identify and avoid the three most common student mistakes: overemphasizing understanding before doing, neglecting teamwork, and retreating to comfort zones; embrace continuous practice, collaboration, and purposeful progress.
What to do when you get stuck7:47

What it means to do the work2:39
Do the work by putting your hands on the keyboard, wrestling with code, and managing stress while focusing on high-yield activities to succeed in an immersive bootcamp.
Use this tool to easily track your time and effort2:03
Get some accountability partners3:23
Build accountability through mentors and one-on-one instructor support, set smart goals, and stay on your timeline with champions guiding your progress.
Rapid Learning: Tim Ferriss Experiment Rapid Language Learning0:32
A lesson from learning languages with Tim Ferris5:03
Explore Tim Ferriss' language-learning approach, emphasizing a repeatable structure, a targeted interview-ready word set, and immersion to accelerate learning.
What you'll encounter in a bootcamp (it's like riding a bike)9:04
Explore how bootcamps use a bicycle analogy to guide learners from training wheels to an immersive, hands-on, flip-classroom experience that emphasizes pre-work and collaboration while staying on curriculum.
How to use Google to be successful5:20
Master efficient Google searching to quickly locate documentation, learn syntax, and solve problems in JavaScript. Recognize event-driven concepts like pub-sub and event emitters to speed coding and research.

Code challenges and pair programming2:06
The most important ritual for engineer teams daily stand-ups1:55
Lead a daily stand-up ritual rooted in Agile to report yesterday, today, and blockers with a scrum master facilitating. The quick, standing meeting unblocks the team and boosts sprint progress.
How all hands meetings work and how to contribute1:41
Explore how all hands meetings work and how to contribute, differ from stand-ups, provide leadership updates, and enable two-way dialogue for responsible feedback to align the team.
The concept of mob programming3:41
Explore mob programming, where front end, back end, and a DB admin work at the same table on the same computer in real time, guided by a driver and navigators.

Mac vs Windows in an immersive coding bootcamp experience2:22
Prepare for an immersive coding bootcamp by using a machine that meets the program's specs, and embrace both Mac and Windows environments to maximize success.
Why you should pay attention to the organization’s core values1:25
Where should you be at the end of the program3:08
The name of the game as an engineer getting stuck and unstuck6:27
Get stuck often; reach out to peers, then Google for answers and verbalize your thought process. Repeat this loop—ask, research, and consult mentors to grow as an engineer.

Requirements

No prior programming experience is needed to take this course. You will learn everything you need to be successful learning to code in less than 6 months.

Description

Many have tried, and failed. You can separate yourself from the pack and be prepared with the skills, tactics, and techniques of the most successful students at immersive coding bootcamps. This is valuable information everyone should have before they embark on the journey of learning to code over a very short period of time.

How hard is an immersive coding BootCamp, or self teaching? Really hard. Most people say it's the hardest thing they have done in their entire life...

But if you go into the process knowing what works and what doesn't you are much more likely to come away with a job. Ultimately this course covers the critical first step of squeezing every bit of knowledge from prior students so that you can learn the most at your bootcamp, prepare for the eventual interview, and have the skills to keep learning for first few years on the job.

This course is designed to give you an overview of the entire process so that you know exactly what to expect and why things work the way they do in most programs. This is not intuitive stuff, but because it is so valuable I insist it is taught up front as part of any program I run. Now you can gain that same insider knowledge that I share with all my students.

By the end of this course, you will know exactly what to expect in an immersive coding program, understand how to learn optimally during an intense program, be prepared for the challenges and obstacles you will face, and have the tools and techniques at your disposal to crush it during your journey. Let's get started!

Who this course is for:

Beginner programmers and anyone that is thinking about attending a coding bootcamp.

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

What to expect7 lectures • 43min

What you can learn from those that came before you7 lectures • 28min

Working as a team4 lectures • 9min

Conclusion4 lectures • 13min

Requirements

Description

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