It's been almost two weeks since the Bootcamp started. There has been a lot of learning, challenges, and feedback. As hard as the challenges were, I managed to progress from week one to week two, which is even tougher.
I didn't get past week one because I was highly skilled or because challenge one was easy. It was because I was able to learn faster and adapt to any situation I encountered.
I had to write blogs every day and work on the given feedback. Sometimes it was very difficult to manage because I had to learn first before working on the feedback. This was particularly challenging in the JavaScript part.
Week two is more challenging than week one as we are building upon what we did in the previous week. There is more work and more learning involved. Tasks that are supposed to be easy, like configuring or setting up the development and deployment environment, take time and can be quite challenging. It is possible to spend the whole day on them. The difficulty also depends on your level of experience. As a first-timer, it became the most challenging thing for me at the Bootcamp.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that working alone at the Bootcamp is almost impossible, unreliable, and not recommended. Collaboration and asking for help are what helped me reach this stage of the Bootcamp. I highly recommend it to anyone who joins the Bootcamp, as well as to those interested in Andela in general.
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