| | Anonymous | Firstly, this is a coding bootcamp. What it means is that the program is tailored to help accelerate learning of an opinionated, tailored-made curriculum and help you develop a certain skillset.
In order to fully benefit from this program, you will need to understand the curriculum provided by the program. Then, create a personal learning roadmap by consulting either the program instructor or mentors in the industry. The bootcamp is not going to teach you everything, in fact, most of the learning depends on yourself. Hence, this means you will have to supplement the program with your own learning. This may sound like the program is useless but it is not, why?
Because the bootcamp helps solve a few problems in building your skillset:
1. It gives you a sense of direction. Some may disagree, but to get started, it is sometimes better to have an opinionated direction, regardless of whether that is the best one for you. It is better to have a focus, instead of reading many opinions and going many directions and ended up at nowhere.
2. It helps form a big picture view of this industry and knowledge base - which will help put learning certain things into context. I remember before the bootcamp, there were times doing some tutorials not knowing why I am doing it even though somehow I know its important. But despite that, when the going gets dry, it was easier to give up not knowing the context which that tutorial fit into my learning roadmap. But the bootcamp will help you with that.
3. The bootcamp provide you with a physical community where you can access to get help, be inspired and be encouraged. To me, half the reason I paid for the bootcamp is because of this. Some may argue that you can get community through meetups etc. But I can guarantee that this is very different. The friends you made will go a long way in supporting you in this journey in the future.
The instructors are generally quite helpful. The curriculum is being improved as time passed. I cannot comment on that because I have not been or heard about other bootcamps. But I supplemented the program curriculum with my own learning. So if there is anything that interest me but not taught by the bootcamp, I just pick those up myself.
To summarise:
- If you are expecting to learn everything well purely from the bootcamp and teachings, the bootcamp is not for you.
- If you are self-driven and expect the bootcamp to supplement your learning, you are going to get the most out of the bootcamp.
- If you are looking for a community to learn together, the bootcamp is for you too. |
