Left a coding boot camp after realizing that I was learning better on my own. I was barely using the material in the boot camp I found better resources outside of the boot camp for free. It didn’t make sense to me to pay 30k for a boot camp when you can find the same stuff online for free
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Welcome to our community. Happy coding!
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Awesome @naomi22. I’m excited to hear how that goes. I am about to start a coding boot camp this month but am nervous I’m paying a lot just to find out what you have.
Last year when I was doing the self-study route I found that FCC helped introduce subjects but wasn’t nearly enough to really understand them. For instance, after you’ve done FCC’s html & css sections you theoretically should know how to make a website… but you don’t know about editors yet and I really wasn’t retaining much from FCC’s lessons.
Ultimately I came up with this web dev & react-focused curriculum and got about half-way through before signing up to a boot camp. If I flunk out I’ll probably just jump right back on this wagon. Curious what you think of it (btw “Neagoie” refers to an instructor on Udemy):
HTML
Khan Academy HTML sections
FC Camp HTML basic
Review Neagoie HTML notes
Review HTML5 features (https://www.codecademy.com/articles/html5-features)
Review style guide (https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_syntax.asp)
W3Schools HTML quiz (https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quiz.asp)
CSS
(part i - basic css)
Finish Khan Intro to HTML & CSS course
FC Camp CSS basic
FC Camp Applied Visual Design section
FC Camp Applied Accessibility section
CSS Surgeon game (https://codepip.com/games/css-surgeon/)
Review CSS3 features (https://www.upwork.com/hiring/development/css-vs-css3/)
Review Neagoie CSS notes
W3Schools CSS Quiz (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_quiz.asp)
(part ii - css grid)
FC Camp Responsive Web Design Principles section
Youtube: Jen Simmons MDN grid intro (https://bit.ly/2wsie43)
Grid Garden game (https://cssgridgarden.com/)
FC Camp Grid sections
Read PDF about CSS Grid for Designers (NYT)
Udemy Neagoie - Entire CSS Grid + CSS Layout section
Review Neagoie Grid notes
Read this CSS Grid post (https://bit.ly/2nhwta3)
Outline Ohans Emmanuel’s front-end development process: from design outline to complete front-end. Create an Evernote note for it, and print it off as well.
Follow this short CSS Grid tutorial (https://scrimba.com/g/gR8PTE)
FC Camp Responsive Web Design projects #1 - 4
FC Camp Responsive Web design projects #5
Javascript
Khan intro to JS
FC Camp Basic Javascript section
Udemy Neagoie ES6 section
FC Camp ES6 section
Khan Advanced JS 1: Games
Khan Advanced JS 2: Games and Visualizations
Khan Advanced JS 3: Natural Simulations
Udemy Neagoie ES7-ES9 review
Review ES10 features (https://bit.ly/2Qs7ADu)
Finish FC Camp Javascript curriculum
Khan Advanced JS 4: HTML & JS
W3Schools JS quiz (https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_quiz.asp)
Khan DOM
Neagoie DOM videos
Odin Project DOM (https://bit.ly/2wkYEq9)
FC Camp JS projects
Wes Bos JS 30 (https://javascript30.com/)
Developer Tools
Finish all Neagoie sections before React
Wes Bos CSS Grid (https://cssgrid.io/) placing this here because it has JS
Learn about & apply CSS BEM writing standards (https://bit.ly/2VTWDeO)
Customize VS Code - download and install a new theme, and install 3 most common extensions
Review Khan Git article (https://bit.ly/2JKgTOn)
Review Neagoie dev tools sections, particularly CL and Git
Web Dev Finalization:
FC Camp CSS Grid blog post projects (https://bit.ly/2W44StR)
Review basic design principles (https://bit.ly/2AU8AK8)
Youtube resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxrsO4aIjyc&t=3s)
Begin using for all sites: html validator (https://validator.w3.org/)
Make dad a responsive new website with all of his old links
Build mom a musician website to book her quartet for events
Build a responsive website for a friend
See if Tommy wants a portfolio website
Ask Kev if he wants me to update his site for free
See if Brant wants a website (possible reference: https://chouwenchung.org/)
Ask Luke if he wants a website
Break: Read “Getting Real” by 37signals (https://basecamp.com/books/Getting%20Real.pdf)
React
Read this post on React (https://sebastiandedeyne.com/why-i-prefer-react-over-vue/)
Read this Reddit article on React vs Vue (https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8o781t/vuejs_or_react_which_you_would_chose_and_why/e01qn55/)
Neagoie React section
FC Camp React
Wes Bos React
PWA’s
Read this article on PWAs (https://bit.ly/2WAjBbK)
Take Max S’s Udemy PWAs course …
Final Projects:
Finish Neagoie
Read “You Don’t Know JS” book 1: Up and Going
(link: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS)
Build social media app from FCC tutorial (link: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-firebase-social-media-app-course/)
Youtube: David Mosher - So you want to be a front-end engineer
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Which boot camp is it ? This curriculum has a lot of the same topics my boot camp went through. By editors do you mean like a software you use to write your code ? The way I see it is that some people have to join boot camps because they need movation or they just know they get distracted on their own and need a strict curriculum. If you were to look right now at your boot camp curriculum you can see the topics you guys will go over and you can use that to teach yourself if you like being self taught. But it’s not for everyone I left my boot camp after I learned HTML CSS and A bit of java script which is basically front end. I left before I had to pay them any money. In my boot camp if you leave in the first 4 weeks it’s free after that you start paying but only if you get a job making 50k or more . If you don’t get a job it’s free. Yes you do learn a lot but it’s in a very fast pace well I mean in the boot camp I was in. For example we learned CSS in one week lol. But of course we had to do a precourse already on html and css and Javascript before starting so you should already have some knowledge. I didn’t like moving to a new topic so fast because at times I felt like i was learning too fast to fully understand. But I can say I did learn a lot and I know more after that experience so I felt confident to continue this journey on my own. There are a lot of boot camps out there make sure you do your research you can even look up on YouTube if anyone has joined the same boot camp. But what I can say is I do miss the extra movitivtion . But if you want it bad you have to keep working hard. Also I get that at times self taught can be a challenge you feel like you might be doing it wrong or learning the wrong things and if you get stuck u might not have anyone to help you. But you shouldn’t give up when you get stuck I barely got any help in the boot camp I would just search up for the problem on google and that’s also what the boot camp will tell you search it up on google and that’s what you will also be doing in the real world . Also are you already familiar with git hub and git bash?
What bootcamp was it? I’m considering a bootcamp but want to first finish FCC’s curriculum. Im currently on the regular expressions part of the JS certification and understand pretty much everything up to this point except CSS grid.
Can you share which bootcamp it was you went to? A clue.
Curious in the southland. Say only if its safe.
Welcome on board. Here you will find lots of useful materials, and the community is awesome, very supportive!
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