What made me do it?
I found out that Harvard offers a free bootcamp for beginning web development. Not that I'm just beginning. But I am beginning to feel frustrated at the speed of my progress.
That's where a bootcamp comes in. And I couldn't do it if it cost me money.
A little history
I've been using computers for many, many years. Since I was approximately 14 years old so, you know, 38 years or so at this point. But I kind of stopped being really into programming after I lost my trusty Amiga and moved over to Windows. It just wasn't much fun anymore.
Now, on the Mac, and after having become a professional entertainer in the interim, I have gotten back into coding. Partly thanks to lockdown pulling my living from under my feet. Partly thanks to needing a website for my business and wanting full control over what said site can do.
Along came edX
So now, thanks to some amazing, free online resources, I am a student for at least the next 16 weeks. This blog post is one of the first early steps into that course. It's long. It's intense. It's a real challenge.
Most of all, I firmly believe it's worth it.
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