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Self-taught to Bootcamp

Brendon Freston on April 21, 2018

Hey! a little bit about myself, I am Brendon and I live in Utah. I self-taught for about a year and a half and started off watching youtube videos,...
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Antiffia McElrath

Hi Brendon,

Thank you for sharing your experience. I have been searching for someone who is attending the Online course for Web Development at DevMountain to get some insight of what they thought and how things were going. I am looking into starting their next one in November 2018. How are the night classes? How much time do you find yourself studying outside of class to get assignments done? Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.

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Brendon Freston

Hey! The night classes aren't bad at all if you have the schedule to be there! It's not too much to digest if you practice outside of class. As far as studying outside of class I made it a goal to spend a minimum of 2 hours a day working on assignments or trying to understand why something works or doesn't work. I go pretty hard on the weekends and get like 3 more hours than class runs on a Saturday and about 5-7 hours Sunday morning. The biggest thing I've learned is ask questions if you don't understand because that's what the mentors are for and really try to grasp the concepts. You may not get it the first two or three times you try but it all comes together if you spend time with the problem!

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Antiffia McElrath

Thank you for the information. I am going to definitely give it some serious thought. I have been following them for awhile now, and had always wished they had an online program. I believe this winter will be my time for enrolling. Was gonna do their March online Cohort, but I know how I am during the summer months.. always ready for vacation and on the go. I am pretty much stable in the winter... lol. Again, thank you for your review. Much success to ya!

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1codechic

Hi Brendon,

It's me again. I haven't taken the leap into the web dev with DevMountain just yet. I hope all is well. I wanted to check in to see how things were since we last chatted on here. When you meet online with DevMountain, is it really live lecture or are you just reviewing a recorded video and have access to the mentors from 6pm - 9pm. How's the interaction with the rest of the class? Are you on Slack Channel?

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Brendon Freston

Hello!

Sorry for the late reply! Hope you had a good holiday.

As far as the class goes it's a live lecture that you can ask questions or have them slow down if needed, we used join.me for the video and audio and also had a slack to keep a archive of questions and answers. They also record every class so if you miss it or need to review you can at any time! The class I was in was great everyone got along and were always there to help out.

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Peter Kim Frank

Hey Brendon, welcome, and thanks for sharing your experience so far.

How many weeks does your bootcamp run?

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Brendon Freston

So it runs for 26 weeks! But we only meet 3 times a week Monday 6pm-9pm
Wednesday 6pm-9pm and Saturday 9am-2pm.