Self-taught to Bootcamp

Brendon Freston — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:41:52 +0000

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, and bought a udemy course that helped me learn HTML, CSS, and minimal javascript. I then jumped into php and mysql. Using what I had learned I made a little site where you could search a database for graves in a graveyard, you could also login and create posts and do some CRUD if you were an admin. After that I hit a plateau in my learning. I had been contemplating joining devmountain for a while and finally decided I needed some help learning along with a network of people with that same goals. I signed up for the online cohort in late November of 2017 and started March 26 2018, at first we went over html and css which was a good review and jumped straight into javascript.

The month before you start is called basecamp. The goal of basecamp is to help get you started with the basics of html, css, javascript, and git. It was a really good intro if you had no experience and really had the drive to learn. The javascript portion of it was awesome for me. I learned all about objects, arrays, and the methods used on them. Since I had experience with php some of the concepts transferred over pretty nice. I was amazed at the high order functions like map, reduce and filter which I'm still getting used to. Week 1 was basically a review of basecamp along with assignments to make sure you understood what you needed to. Week 2 was all about objects and arrays along with the methods you use with them. Week 3 was about getting started with react and learning the syntax and how components work with some jsx. Week 4 (which I am currently in at the time) is about more react and starting to learn the basics of node.

It might sound like things are moving quick which they are, but they give you a good understanding of concepts and when to use them and why. We will later be diving deeper into react and node obviously but I am so excited learning react and node. So far I feel like I need to just write some more code to really get the concepts down of state and how and when to change it. As for node, we are using express which I'm currently reading the docs and blogs about. But we are using get, post, put and delete. Out of the two node is definitely the one I'm having a hard time grasping. I know I just need more time with them to really solidify the knowledge. I will continue documenting about things I learn and hopefully be able to give some helpful info and tips to my fellow coders! Thanks for the read.

Hi, I'm Brendon Freston

Brendon Freston — Tue, 02 May 2017 13:49:24 +0000

I have been coding for [1] years.

You can find me on GitHub as bfrest

I live in [Hyrum, UT].

I mostly program in these languages: [PHP, MySQL, jquery].

I am currently learning more about [client side scripting].

Nice to meet you.

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Self-taught to Bootcamp

Hi, I'm Brendon Freston