To be honest, I got into this because it was such an "in" thing. At first, I really thought this was a gateway pass to a good career, meaning it was well paid and highly regarded (even if it wasn't like other certified courses like being a Doctor or Lawyer).
I got into coding bootcamp with that goal in mind: for a well paying job that looked "cool".
So I went to class in the bootcamp, did my work, tried my best, and asked and sometimes not ask. Sometimes, I was stuck in a problem but I would hesitate in asking, and then my teacher come up right behind me and point out the missing piece in my code. Or he would suddenly explain the javascript code I found in StackOverflow, but couldn't understand.
Same goes for my first ever boss. He founded a small company here in the Philippines and it's only us 6 employees working, so he's very hands-on. He teaches us everything he can. He encourages us to ask when we're stuck. And he gives us code reviews and tips whenever he has the time.
So to conclude, maybe I didn't have any code-defining moment. But I feel so blessed to be around people who teach me and pass their knowledge to me. It feels good to learn. And like how Ali Spittel quote Sandi Metz: "we can enjoy the pure act of writing code in sure knowledge that the code we write has use."
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To be honest, I got into this because it was such an "in" thing. At first, I really thought this was a gateway pass to a good career, meaning it was well paid and highly regarded (even if it wasn't like other certified courses like being a Doctor or Lawyer).
I got into coding bootcamp with that goal in mind: for a well paying job that looked "cool".
So I went to class in the bootcamp, did my work, tried my best, and asked and sometimes not ask. Sometimes, I was stuck in a problem but I would hesitate in asking, and then my teacher come up right behind me and point out the missing piece in my code. Or he would suddenly explain the javascript code I found in StackOverflow, but couldn't understand.
Same goes for my first ever boss. He founded a small company here in the Philippines and it's only us 6 employees working, so he's very hands-on. He teaches us everything he can. He encourages us to ask when we're stuck. And he gives us code reviews and tips whenever he has the time.
So to conclude, maybe I didn't have any code-defining moment. But I feel so blessed to be around people who teach me and pass their knowledge to me. It feels good to learn. And like how Ali Spittel quote Sandi Metz: "we can enjoy the pure act of writing code in sure knowledge that the code we write has use."