I'm an instructor at a bootcamp (one much more generous with its cohort rescheduling policy, apparently), and I can assure you that not only do a lot of students fall behind, but a many feel at least as intimidated (and some much more).
I will strongly recommend that you not put it off any longer than you absolutely need to , though. I've seen too many students hamper their current and future retention by letting tasks pile up, losing whatever "muscle memory" they had gained when they did last work on assignments.
But like your very well-told story here, I'd like to end this comment on a happy note (or two):
Purple is awesome. I never fully appreciated it until recently TBH.
You mentioned in your last article that you've worked all these other jobs before deciding to code. Use that to your advantage. I tell people all the time that, throughout my coding career, I've used more of what I learned working at Starbucks and waiting tables than anything I learned in college. Coding is definitely about logic and some math (usually not nearly as much as people think), but just being good with language (as your writing demonstrates) goes a VERY long way.
Thank you Mike! One of my classmates and I get together (virtually) and work through the modules together since he and I are at exactly the same pace.
Thank you so much for your happy note #2!
It’s really encouraging to know that I don’t have to be “smart” in the way I thought you had to be in order to become a software engineer.
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I'm an instructor at a bootcamp (one much more generous with its cohort rescheduling policy, apparently), and I can assure you that not only do a lot of students fall behind, but a many feel at least as intimidated (and some much more).
I will strongly recommend that you not put it off any longer than you absolutely need to , though. I've seen too many students hamper their current and future retention by letting tasks pile up, losing whatever "muscle memory" they had gained when they did last work on assignments.
But like your very well-told story here, I'd like to end this comment on a happy note (or two):
You got this.
Thank you Mike! One of my classmates and I get together (virtually) and work through the modules together since he and I are at exactly the same pace.
Thank you so much for your happy note #2!
It’s really encouraging to know that I don’t have to be “smart” in the way I thought you had to be in order to become a software engineer.