In Bootcamp

By The Nexus

In Bootcamp podcast is about Matthew Petschl's experience at a local coding bootcamp and journey to software engineer, featuring Ryan Rampersad with industry commentary.... more

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The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.

In Bootcamp episodes:

August 13, 2019In Bootcamp #26: The End
Group Project 3
Deployment?

Contributions

Last minute work

Presentation

Q&A

Grade: A

Graduation from bootcamp
Final Photo

Bootcamp feelings

Upcoming plans
MidwestJS

Instructor’s lead for Leadpages

Udemy

Practical and realistic practice using The Nexus Tittler
Hours and hours of coding!
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34min
July 18, 2019In Bootcamp #25: The Last Week
On the last full week of In Bootcamp, Matt shares the final few days of Group Project 3 - contributions and timesinks, plus an insightful discovery, and a bit more about short and long term plans after bootcamp ends.
Final Group project is a solo one
It’s actually even worse, it’s become a “Ryan” project
Other team member contributions
Committed GitHub repo of another project without changing anything
Slacked some code instead of putting in git
Created more artwork and logos
Nobody has used the GitHub issues or project board
Time sinks
Spent more than an hour trying to kill a service
Spent half an hour to build from source
Broke the entire Node package
Zone out in front of the monitor
GitHub insight
A cool feature of owning a repository are insights
See exactly how many clones and pulls to a repository there have been
Final day
Thursday July 11th
Future
Short term
Long term
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27min
July 17, 2019In Bootcamp #25: The Last Week
Final Group project is a solo one
It’s actually even worse, it’s become a “Ryan” project

Other team member contributions
Committed GitHub repo of another project without changing anything

Slacked some code instead of putting in git

Created more artwork and logos

Nobody has used the GitHub issues or project board

Time sinks
Spent more than an hour trying to kill a service

Spent half an hour to build from source

Broke the entire Node package

Zone out in front of the monitor

GitHub insight
A cool feature of owning a repository are insights

See exactly how many clones and pulls to a repository there have been

Final day
Thursday July 11th

Future
Short term

Long term
...more
27min
July 11, 2019In Bootcamp #24: Mail Server
Follow up
From Brandon @brandon_mn on Twitter
In bootcamp #22 follow-up:
- folks ask me about the U of M bootcamp and it's quality and I've always been like “Not sure - it’s a bootcamp, have fun!' but thanks to matt's feedback I won't be saying that

- ughhhhhh java

Computer science unit was super short
Big-O notation

Felt like Computer Science coverage from Bootcamp was very lacking

High School AP Computer was better for Computer Science

Bought a udemy course to bolster coverage

Mail server
Mail server using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL

Why not use MailChimp or Sendgrid?
MailChimp apparently still requires mail server locally

“You don’t know what you don’t know until you can’t do it”

Group project 3
Not going so well

Contributions are mediocre right now

Matt skipped HackerX
Excuse #0

Excuse #2

Excuse #3
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25min
July 07, 2019In Bootcamp #23: Computer Science
Notes:
Computer Science
Sorting
Insert

Selection

Linear

Binary

Quick

Overview on Big-O

Time and Space complexity briefly

These are on interviews often

Group project 3 update

Allegedly next week: other languages
Ruby

Python

Also next week
HackerX in June
Attributions:
Aether Theories by Vidian via CCMixter
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24min
June 29, 2019In Bootcamp #22: Java
Matt's group project 3 stutters, React is finished up, Java begins and essentially ends, and upon reflection, maybe this course changed course during its course.
React is done/ few last minute things
Redux not covered
Context not covered
No hooks
Java
It was hard to get started; installation was difficult
Examples are not followed up on now
Learning about packages; with the classpath
Ryan shared Spring Initializer
“What is the world?”
Changed the course syllabus
Done with Java
“Building webapps with Java” basically cut from the program
Java homework is optional
Project 3
Not going well already
Thinking about automated deployments
This episode of In Bootcamp has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #548: IB #22 — Floppy ANSWER!
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23min
June 28, 2019In Bootcamp #22: Java
React is done/ few last minute things
Redux not covered

Context not covered

No hooks

Java
It was hard to get started; installation was difficult

Examples are not followed up on now

Learning about packages; with the classpath

Ryan shared Spring Initializer

“What is the world?”

Changed the course syllabus
Done with Java

“Building webapps with Java” basically cut from the program

Java homework is optional

Project 3
Not going well already

Thinking about automated deployments
...more
23min
June 20, 2019In Bootcamp #21: Prime Digital
Matt continues learning React and more important modern JavaScript concepts, chats with his TA and gains a new perspective on the portfolio.
React
State
Using `.map` like a pro
Used components like a beast
Destructuring
Chat with the TA
TA took Prime Digital
UMN Bootcamp was very different in comparison
He took the fulltime version for 20 weeks
He would recommend Prime Digital
Profolio
Professor suggested scraping the existing portfolio
Trying a Gatsby template instead
Good idea – except for keeping the template as is
Gatsby starters
Professor
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25min
June 19, 2019In Bootcamp #21: Prime Digital
React
State

Using `.map` like a pro

Used components like a beast

Destructuring

Chat with the TA
TA took Prime Digital

UMN Bootcamp was very different in comparison

He took the fulltime version for 20 weeks

He would recommend Prime Digital

Profolio
Professor suggested scraping the existing portfolio

Trying a Gatsby template instead

Good idea - except for keeping the template as is

Gatsby starters

Professor
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25min
June 13, 2019In Bootcamp #20: React
React week begins
Saturday class

Back to the old room, so much room

npx sudo fail

React is cool
Playing with HTML in JavaScript

Learning JSX foundations

Styles with JSX

Professor: Redux is dead

Professor: React native is bad
React Native What We Learned After 6 Months
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21min

FAQs about In Bootcamp:

How many episodes does In Bootcamp have?

The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.