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PSA: I visited a coding bootcamp open house and nobody asked about the basics
I sat through a two hour info session at a local bootcamp last month and realized they never once mentioned how to actually debug a simple error like a missing semicolon, so has anyone else noticed these programs skip over the fundamentals?
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maxl938d ago
Wait did they seriously not even talk about reading error messages? Because my buddy went to one of those bootcamps last year and he told me they spent like a whole week on "building a portfolio project" but never actually showed anyone how to use a debugger. I still remember my first week learning to code I spent like 3 hours staring at the console trying to figure out why a for loop was broken and it turns out I just forgot to increment the counter. To me the small stuff is way more important than any fancy project setup because if you can't fix a typo you're basically stuck.
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eva_moore7d ago
3 years into my job and I still catch myself writing "console.log" in random text files like it's going to fix something. It's funny how the simple stuff is what actually saves you.
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