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:

June 08, 2019In Bootcamp #19: Open Source North
Two class periods off
No Saturday or Tuesday classes due to the Memorial Day holiday

More MongoDB
Mongodb-driver

Moved away from just using the shell

Just under 6% market share

Mongoose
Everything just works!

Open source north
Hi Aron

Turkey and cookies

The world is big

I did not really learn anything, just got to see what I need to go home a google,
Scala

Apache kafka

Knative

Glue

≠ null
Firecode

Inconsolata

Dank

Ryan’s favorite talks

HackerX again someday
Late June; still not quite done with bootcamp yet
...more
35min
May 30, 2019In Bootcamp #18: Mongo
Matt finishes Group Project 2 and learns a lot about scope, communications and capabilities, and continues learning Mongo and NoSQL.
Mongodb & Robo Mongo
No defined shape, you can do anything
Windows struggles to handle Mongo
Group project 2
Not much experience prior to the project with Express and Seqelize
Passport threw everyone for a loop
This is a pandemic issue in JavaScript today; very little documentation and cookbook examples are available and kept up-to-date
Some team members did not contribute very much
Some team members were instructed about an issue but then did it again later
The team received an A on this project
What did I learn?
Travis and Git repositories
Nobody likes to communicate
“I don’t know what I’m doing”
Group project 3
React
MongoDB
Open Source North
This episode of In Bootcamp has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #544: IB #18 — Carrots: the orange sticks!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
...more
32min
May 29, 2019In Bootcamp #18: Mongo
Mongodb & Robo Mongo
No defined shape, you can do anything

Windows struggles to handle Mongo

Group project 2
Not much experience prior to the project with Express and Seqelize

Passport threw everyone for a loop
This is a pandemic issue in JavaScript today; very little documentation and cookbook examples are available and kept up-to-date

Some team members did not contribute very much
Some team members were instructed about an issue but then did it again later

The team received an A on this project

What did I learn?
Travis and Git repositories

Nobody likes to communicate

“I don’t know what I’m doing”

Group project 3
React

MongoDB

Open Source North
...more
32min
May 24, 2019In Bootcamp #17: Maximum Development Efficiency
Matt's second group project continues and the tasks begin building up; plus Matt gets his first unsolicited recruiter contact!
In Class
Unit tests
Endpoint testing
Chai, mocha
Group Project 2
5 days left and still have nothing to show
2 group members not working on it
Team members misunderstood SQL file
Breakdown of team communication and tasks
Teacher uses my computer
Asked for help with Husky
Brian doesn’t use Adblock
NoScript; which nobody should use in their primary browser
Jobs
Follow up from HackerX
Associate Software Engineer & Customer Support
Java oriented
International Decision Systems, Group
Customer Support in the title is very dismaying
The job description… mentions a technology not to be used on the web
Job posting literally asks for a Bachelor’s degree in computer science
Location is a pro and a con
You are NOT looking for a job, you are looking to begin your career
This episode of In Bootcamp has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #542: IB #17 — Ryan Is Sleeveless Now!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
...more
29min
May 23, 2019In Bootcamp #17: Maximum Development Efficiency
In Class
Unit tests

Endpoint testing

Chai, mocha

Group Project 2
5 days left and still have nothing to show

2 group members not working on it

Team members misunderstood SQL file

Breakdown of team communication and tasks

Teacher uses my computer
Asked for help with Husky

Brian doesn’t use Adblock

NoScript; which nobody should use in their primary browser

Jobs
Follow up from HackerX
Associate Software Engineer & Customer Support
Java oriented

International Decision Systems, Group

Customer Support in the title is very dismaying

The job description... mentions a technology not to be used on the web

Job posting literally asks for a Bachelor's degree in computer science

Location is a pro and a con
You are NOT looking for a job, you are looking to begin your career
...more
29min
May 16, 2019In Bootcamp #16: Tools and Tricks
Refreshing on Sequelize

Group Project 2 begins
Idea: D&D character stats and inventory
5 person team

Some overlap from previous team

About 2 weeks to do it

Requirements
Needs node, express, handlebars, mysql, sequelize

MVC folders

GET and POST routes for CRUD

Deploy using Heroku

Using a new package/library the class has not used yet
Possibly pdf generation

Possibly user authentication

Polished UI

Code quality, prettier, eslint

Eslint
npm run lint -- --fix

Did you set up prettier?

TravisCI
Expensive

npm odd audited 176 packages in 0.99s
Xray from Jfrog is used in our pipeline

Firefox
...more
29min
May 09, 2019In Bootcamp #15: Sequelize
Matt has installed the latest Ubuntu on his laptop, gets sick, learns why MySQL is weird and what ORMs are.
Ubuntu 19.10 is out
Sick, did not go to class
Problems
MySQL installation
DBeaver
Workbench issues
ORM – Object-relational mapping
Twitter clone
Sequelize
mysql
Better twitter clone
Project 2
Attributions
~aether theories~
Copyright
In Bootcamp is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to https://thenexus.tv/ib15.
This episode of In Bootcamp has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #539: IB #15 — The Foot Is In My Mouth!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
...more
29min
May 08, 2019In Bootcamp #15: Sequelize
Ubuntu 19.10 is out

Sick, did not go to class

Problems
MySQL installation

DBeaver

Workbench issues

ORM - Object-relational mapping

Twitter clone

Sequelize
mysql

Better twitter clone

Project 2
Attributions
~aether theories~
Copyright
In Bootcamp is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to http://thenexus.tv/ib15.
...more
29min
May 02, 2019In Bootcamp #14: Handlebars
Matt's class continues with MySQL and adds Express into the mix and begins serving dynamically created HTML content with Handlebars. Plus, Matt gets the OK to use Linux in class - against his earlier preconceived notions.
In class group project for the whole class period
Star wars
Reserve tables app
Learning Express
More express
app.get, app.post
MySQL with ajax
Handlebars
Homework
Make something like this, friend finder
Linux
Attributions
~aether theories~
Copyright
In Bootcamp is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to https://thenexus.tv/ib14.
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
...more
27min
May 01, 2019In Bootcamp #14: Handlebars
In class group project for the whole class period
Star wars

Reserve tables app

Learning Express
More express
app.get, app.post

MySQL with ajax

Handlebars

Homework
Make something like this, friend finder

Linux
Attributions
~aether theories~
Copyright
In Bootcamp is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to http://thenexus.tv/ib14.
...more
27min

FAQs about In Bootcamp:

How many episodes does In Bootcamp have?

The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.