- work at home mama / professional photographer
- 2 kids who were 6 and 2 when I started
- gSchool January 2015 - July 2015
- Started working for Utivity at the end of July 2015
- Became Associate Instructor at Galvanize in May 2016
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
#The Confidence/Competence Chart
- running list of past problems and how you solved them
- running list of questions you are still wondering about
- reusable content for blog posts, resumés, and cover letters
- talking points for interviews
- identify areas of improvement
- Read (trusted resources and Google)
- Organize your thoughts
- Ask an experienced developer good questions (resources, debugging)
- HTML5
- SCSS
- Bootstrap
- Python/Django
- Javascript/Angular
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- Got feet wet with AngularJS by creating a directive
- “offensively easy”
- Biggest Challenge: learning Angular and Python.
- Timeline: a few days.
- Map the results of the user search
- Biggest Challenges: The Angular Google Maps directive, debugging, navigating the codebase, and not bursting into tears at work.
- Timeline: approximately a month.
#Desert of Despair
- User Review - Remind users to fill out review form.
- User Email Project - Implement a new email campaign design and update the delivery parameters.
- Biggest Challenges: Custom data migrations, old school html.
- Timeline: approximately 2 weeks each.
- Biggest win: I realized how much I had learned over the course of 2.5 months - Django REST services, Angular directives, Google Maps. Big confidence boost.
- Biggest challenge: All the CSS. UTTER DESPAIR. “This is impossible.”
#Let's Recap
^ You move up and down through this over and over. ^ Talk about what it has been like at galvanize