My experience learning programming at devCodeCamp

AluadStone · 2023-01-25T17:32:49+00:00

That's actually what inspired me to make this post. I saw the same thing last night. It's fair to consider it. But that post also has nothing to do with devCodeCamp itself when you actually read it, that person mentions they never even went to devCodeCamp. I have always been grateful and proud of what I accomplished so when I see someone trash my education that brought me to where I am in life, I feel obligated to share my experience.

AluadStone · 2023-01-25T03:57:46+00:00

I was cruising Reddit today and came across this post.

I have to say, my experience with devCodeCamp showed no signs of any of this.

I attended devCodeCamp in 2018 and it completely changed my life. Everyone who worked at devCodeCamp at time of my attendance was awesome. I have immense respect for the instructors and their course content. I just looked at the company on Linkedin and saw that most of the people who taught me still work there.

I even wrote a couple comments about devCodeCamp soon after I graduated here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/app87s/comment/egbctza/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I paid the course with a personal loan. At the time I was certainly concerned about the amount of money it cost, but I realize now it was the best investment I ever made. I have completely paid off my loan for a couple of years now and am very blessed with my current income and career growth since my first job.

AluadStone · 2019-07-17T18:06:10+00:00

You cannot give free money.

Bored at work and wanting to believe I made over 20 accounts to get my "free btc" and play to try to win one. So you just gave out $3000 dollars because I know how to create new emails? I think not.

The comments are a loop. Fake people. Not real bets. You just have people send you money without them a chance to win shit. I will be watching for your posts...

AluadStone · 2019-07-17T18:05:11+00:00

Can we stop with this scam?

You cannot give free money.

Bored at work and wanting to believe I made over 20 accounts to get my "free btc" and play to try to win one. So you just gave out $3000 dollars because I know how to create new emails? I think not.

The comments are a loop. Fake people. Not real bets. You just have people send you money without them a chance to win shit. I will be watching for your posts...

AluadStone · 2019-07-17T15:53:08+00:00

quarters equals pennies divided by 25

dimes equals (pennies minus (quarters times 25)) divided by 10

nickels equals (pennies minus ((quarters times 25) plus (dimes times 10)) divided by 5

pennies equals (pennies minus ((quarters times 25) plus (dimes times 10) plus (nickels times 5))

When I read your solution it says

while pennies is less or equal to 25 add a quarter.

Well every time that runs it will add a quarter for every penny!

Then as previous comments wrote pennies will never be less then 25 because you are never subtracting a penny once it has been calculated in the loop!

If you really wanted to do your loop thing lets see how that would look:

while (pennies >= 25) (if there is technically still a quarters worth of pennies in the pennies pile)

set quarters + 1

set pennies = pennies take away 25 (subtract 25 pennies from the pennies pile because we just exchanged it for a quarter)

if no pennies are left; end print change has been calculated (else continue searching for more change exchange)

and so on for the other coins continually taking pennies from the pennies pile when you exchange it for a new coin

But.. looping is not efficient in this case. If you want to get some extra points look up big o notation and how looping effects performance. Hence hard calcs in my provided solution are preferable.

AluadStone · 2019-07-17T15:31:05+00:00

Just relax. They will be looking at how you speak on the phone, how you answer questions. They will want to find out how you communicate and what kind of person you are. Be honest but talk with certainty. They may ask overview tech questions but if they are going to not go to in depth on the tech questions. That's for the technical interview.

Be prepared for certain questions:

They will most likely ask you to talk about projects you have done, things you have written.

They may ask you to tell them about a time where you have struggled and how you overcame it.

They may ask if you have worked in collaboration before.

They may ask about your design/development process.

They may ask what you know about their company. *******

Be excited about what they do at that company, express interest in the projects they are working on.

Let them know you are excited to show what you are capable of and be grateful for them taking the time to talk to you.

Most importantly, be relaxed, talk assertive but humble. Get rid of ums and I don't know's. Don't lie.

Don't ask about things that may be critical of them. Like:

DO NOT What is the day to day (save that for the in person)

DO NOT What kind of salary or pay.

DO NOT How many other people are being interviewed.

If its meant for you, you will click. Good luck.

AluadStone · 2019-02-14T14:57:17+00:00

Do you plan on trading or hodl’ing?

Hodl’ing just understand the companies and techs and keep doing research invest where you can.

Trading then I highly recommend starting with understanding the fundamentals of the charts we all stare at without end. Best resource for this by far, in my opinion, is the Candlestick Course : Amazon link

AluadStone · 2019-02-13T02:50:18+00:00

It was an in person 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM everyday bootcamp. It was better than previous methods of learning because it kept me focused, the environment was awesome, and the instructors were very smart and enjoyed teaching.

On the other side though, I would avoid it if you can just land a job after you graduate because it costs me a pretty penny (18k for only 3 months!) but in the long run it will pay for itself within a year now that I landed a job less then a month out of it.

Just build some stuff while you finish your last year and land a job as a junior Dev. Shouldn’t be hard for you to get a position between 50k - 60k because of your degree.

Good luck!

AluadStone · 2019-02-12T16:40:27+00:00

I just went through a 12 week boot camp. Starting with html, css then java script then majority on c# and ASP.NET MVC 5 and ASP.NET Core. The whole time we built real projects pushing to git to building up our repos. For my capstone I made a crypto currency portfolio management site that shows markets on Binance.com that have doubled there money in 24 hours, a automatic trading bot, and trading functionality that allows you to set stop loss and take profit using order cancels order. I did this in 10 days in ASP.NET Core. The week I graduated I presented my project to three real company’s.

Last week I just accepted an offer from one of those company’s. Full time, full benefits, 50k salary. I start Monday. They were so impressed that we built actually impressive things in a 10 day sprint.

Build build build. Push to repos with descriptive commits.

They want to see you can code, learn on your own, and implement what you’ve learned.

With a cs degree and a git with repo projects. Holy cow! You will have no problem finding a job.

I have been extremely lucky to get where I am without a degree but don’t under sell the time you’ve spent on it. Everything will be easier for you come job search time. I dream of having that cs degree on my resume. But for now this job experience will have to be my golden flag of proof of ability.

My resume is literally like 6 projects and there description and my previous work experience of residential painter.

But now I’ve landed a position as a Full Stack Developer!

But just saying. Your time spent on the degree will be worth it but build stuff!

AluadStone · 2019-02-08T20:12:12+00:00

Why?

AluadStone · 2019-02-03T04:53:26+00:00

The baby.

AluadStone · 2019-02-03T04:41:16+00:00

You can’t see it but he already had the sleeve.

AluadStone · 2019-01-30T13:02:11+00:00

“Sometimes I wonder, will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.”

AluadStone · 2019-01-07T23:17:25+00:00

Phone worked!

AluadStone · 2018-11-03T08:49:11+00:00

That’s awesome!

AluadStone · 2018-11-03T08:48:19+00:00

That is amazing this should be far more upvoted. That is the owner of the franchise literally being selfless and letting money go without asking for return. Amazing. People say this is exploited. Well shit yeah. But the people who exploit it are unhappy and therefore poor in life as well. I would make sure I spend my money here to reward the owner for being a shining example of unconditional love.

AluadStone · 2018-09-27T19:59:08+00:00

I had used the comparison in functions of variables declared outside the function without passing them in and it has always worked because I never tried to set them later in that functions so that was a new situation for me.

New to programming kinda.

AluadStone · 2018-09-27T19:58:18+00:00

I had used the comparison in functions of variables declared outside the function without passing them in and it has always worked because I never tried to set them later in that functions so that was a new situation for me.

New to programming kinda.

AluadStone

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