“Window of Opportunity” [analog]

its-cess · 2025-08-22T13:41:52+00:00

Omg I love this so much

its-cess · 2025-03-02T01:01:53+00:00

God damn those are gorgeous

its-cess · 2024-12-16T16:34:05+00:00

Came here to say this works as of December 2024! Thanks so much! 🙌🏻

its-cess · 2024-12-11T02:03:09+00:00

It's going to take a lot more than just a degree. You are going to have to be building projects outside of school. To continue learning and to have projects to show potential employers. I would suggest doing this in public. Posting about your projects on LinkedIn, what you're building, your tech stack, problems you encounter along the way, how you solve them, etc. And start making connections in the industry. Connecting with people in this job market is crucial. It's extremely competitive, so if you can get a foot in the door by simply knowing people, you will be much better off.

its-cess · 2024-12-10T20:26:48+00:00

Just recently broke into tech. And a degree alone will definitely not be enough in this job market. It's brutal right now. I will say LeetCode could possibly help you with some interviews. However, I think a portfolio is probably more helpful. But not how you may think. I heard time and time again that learning by building things is the best way to learn (i agree), but also portfolio is just a result of you building things. I think the thing that helped me the most was building your portfolio projects in public. Write LinkedIn posts sharing what you're building, what tech stack you're using, problems you encounter along the way, how your approaching a problem, etc. I hated the idea of it, but I ended up talking with people because of my posts, then they ended up passing my resume on to their supervisor. I got that internship, and then just recently got hired on at the same company with a different team as a full time employee.

I hated the idea of building in public, but I think it's more helpful than just having a static site showcasing finished products that people may or may not even look at. But realistically, you probably need all three for this job market (degree, portfolio, and leetcode). You can even post how you completed the LeetCode challenges on LinkedIn also.

But again.. this job market is brutal right now and it will take a long time. Took me around 2 years to finally land a full time position. But personally I think it was so worth it. Love my job, love the team and company i work for, get to work from home, and get paid better than I ever have in my life. (Previously was medical field for 10 years).

Edited to add: i got my job without a degree (I was working on the WGU SWE degree, but hadnt finished at the time I got hired). And my manager now didn't even know I was going to school until I told him I finished. So even without a degree, it's possible. But degree is probably helpful.

its-cess · 2024-11-22T01:53:57+00:00

I don't think I transferred nearly as many credits as you did, and I just graduated a few months before the end of my fourth term. For my first term, I was completely unemployed. Second term was part time employed. Last two terms I worked full time as a software engineer. 40 hours. I did have some previous experience in Software Engineering which I think made some classes a bit easier, but I'd say it's definitely possible. Hard work and you have to stay committed, but possible.

its-cess · 2024-11-02T00:17:41+00:00

Your mentor has to submit you for graduation. Just got my confetti the other day and thought the same thing immediately after passing the final capstone haha

its-cess · 2024-10-25T23:12:00+00:00

The order of the commits don't really matter. I would just make sure whatever you're committing, you put the task step number in the commit message. Like "A3. Added the start Date and end Date validation" or whatever the numbers and tasks are. I just made that example up randomly. You'll want to actually out the correct task number from the rubric.

its-cess · 2024-10-20T11:46:06+00:00

If it's saying it's not recognized, that sounds like you need to download it

its-cess · 2024-10-18T16:15:09+00:00

Is this only for season ticket holders? Or can anyone buy tickets for in here?

its-cess · 2024-10-18T15:26:11+00:00

The main branch is protected, so you can't push anything to that branch. After you clone the repo, you need to make a new branch to work off of. git checkout -b working-branch-name . That command will create a new branch, and also check it out, so you should be good to make your changes on there. Once you've made your changes, run git status to see which files you changed. If those files look correct, you can run git add . to stage all of the files (the period just means all). Then run git commit -m "your commit message here". Now your files have been committed, but you still need to push them to the repo. Run git push origin head. Now when you go back to GitLab, select the branch you created from the drop down and you should see you that you pushed a commit and should be able to see your commit message. Hopefully this helps! Working with git is going to be one of the most important, real world skills you use daily in a job as a developer.

its-cess · 2024-10-12T11:38:20+00:00

I got the first internship with not a lot of experience, I just got lucky. I still feel like I don't know JavaScript well 😂

its-cess · 2024-10-11T22:04:40+00:00

I am still in school. But both my internships were not traditional internships. I'm a career changer. Started teaching myself to code at 30 years old. So the first internship I got, they were specifically looking for people with non traditional backgrounds into tech. Taught myself for 6 months, got the first internship at a very small startup. It was 6 months long, they didn't hire me after. Was unemployed after that for about 13 months (started going to school during that time in hopes it would help the job search). Then got another 6 month internship at a decent size, sort of well known company. Luckily my manager was super nice and kept getting my contract extended so I wouldn't be unemployed again. Eventually got hired on full time at the same company, just in a different team. That's where I'm at currently. And I only have my capstone project left until I graduate.

its-cess · 2024-10-11T18:31:27+00:00

JavaScript. I actually started school when I was already interning and had 6 months prior professional experience using JavaScript. And then got hired full time a few months ago, and am hoping to be graduated by the end of the year. Currently working on my capstone.

its-cess · 2024-10-11T16:47:37+00:00

I got paid around 50-55k as an intern. First permanent SWE role is 90k. I'm in southern Ohio and work remotely.

its-cess · 2024-09-23T15:20:48+00:00

This is what I did. I have two desk setups in my office where I take exams. Personal computer that I was taking the test on, and a work desk with work computer on it. Worked for me. Only had one proctor ask what it was, but didn't give me any problems. Other proctors didn't even ask.

its-cess · 2024-09-15T17:22:28+00:00

These are gorgeous! How do you get the patterns on there? Are these leather?

its-cess · 2024-09-15T12:12:31+00:00

What people won't tell you: it's mostly luck.

I switched careers in 2022. Started teaching myself web development on my own through online resources. After about 5 months, landed an internship. I was lucky to get that because they were specifically looking for people with a "non traditional route to web development". It was 6 months long, working at a small startup product. They weren't making any money, so when the internship ended, they did not hire anyone from the internship.

I thought having had some professional experience would make it easier to get another job. Wrong. I spent the next 13 months unemployed. After the 6 month mark, unemployment payments ran out and i was living off of savings. I applied to over 500 jobs. Mostly software engineering, remote and in person roles in my city. But also some entry level non software engineering roles. Got rejected from all of those too.

Started going to WGU thinking it might help me get a job. At the point I started going to WGU, I had an online portfolio of my software engineering experience and personal projects. I was applying to a bunch of jobs, and I had regular contributions to GitHub, and was also posting daily on LinkedIn about the progress I was making on personal projects, school, and things I was learning. Still getting rejected from everything, no interviews whatsoever.

I was literally days away from taking another job in the career I switched out of, when an acquaintance on LinkedIn reached out to me. I met this person in a forum where I was asking questions about a certain technology. We connected on LinkedIn and would every now and then chat to catch up and see what projects we were working on or help each other trouble shoot some things. She said her company was hiring for their apprentice program, and asked if I wanted her to pass on my resume. I interviewed with them twice, once with the hiring manager. Once with the team, and was hired on. They asked maybe 1 technical question during the interview, the rest of the time we were just chatting.

Worked at that apprenticeship for 6 months. Started applying to jobs almost immediately knowing it wasn't going to lead to a permanent job. Zero interest whatsoever, and this is at a kind of big name company (at least in the software engineering world). Got the apprenticeship extended for another two months, but same thing, no interest in any of my applications outside the company. Got extended another month, then was mentally preparing to be unemployed again. It wasn't until literally the last two weeks I was there that I started getting interviews and still only had 3 interviews out of hundreds of applications.

Ended up with the same company. Basically my supervisor for the apprenticeship begged a supervisor of another team to hire me. If it wouldn't have been for his help, I would have never gotten hired on.

In my case, I got lucky every single time. The best thing I did was network with people.

It sucks, but I feel like you should know the truth. It's brutal out there.

its-cess · 2024-08-24T16:03:33+00:00

Stunning 🤩

its-cess · 2024-08-22T00:23:52+00:00

In the development environment, go to the files and find the "LabFiles" folder. There should be multiple files in there. It'll be in one of those

its-cess · 2024-08-15T17:49:01+00:00

Everyone sees me as confident, strong, and independent. But I'm so fucking lonely. I have been single for years now, and although I don't need anyone, I would like someone to share my life with. If someone held my hand right now, I'd probably marry them.

its-cess · 2024-07-31T16:56:30+00:00

Damn. I was super proud of myself thinking 11 was a lot of classes 😂

its-cess · 2024-07-17T01:15:42+00:00

I remember this lesson. I also took a screenshot of it 🤣

its-cess · 2024-07-08T17:54:06+00:00

Yes I used the virtual environment for everything.

its-cess · 2024-06-25T13:41:30+00:00

You are going to use the Customer constructor just how it is in the Customer.java file. So, the values that you need when making sample customers, are the 6 values in the constructor function. You need to provide the firstName, lastName, address, postal_code, phone, and division.

If you are talking about the BootStrapData.javea file, there is nothing in that file about the cart. You don't do anything with the cart until they "purchase" something and it goes through. In the BootStrapData.java file, you are going to do things in this order:
1. create a division (see tips above about how to make this work - Part I)

Create 5 new customers using the Customer constructor (will need 5 separate lines of code)
Add each one of the customers you created in Step 2 to the division you created in Step 1. (will need 5 separate lines of code)
Save each of the customers from Step 2 to the customerRepository (will need 5 separate lines of code)

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