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In Bootcamp #26: The End

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:11:12 GMT

Group Project 3
- Deployment?
- Contributions
- Last minute work
- Presentation
- Q&A
- Grade: A
Graduation from bootcamp
- Final Photo
Bootcamp feelings
Upcoming plans
- MidwestJS
- Instructor’s lead for Leadpages
- Udemy
- Practical and realistic practice using The Nexus Tittler
  - Hours and hours of coding!

The Fringe #553: Continuous Jubilee and Celebration

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:11:10 GMT

In Bootcamp #25: The Last Week

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:41:35 GMT

Final Group project is a solo one
- It’s actually even worse, it’s become a “Ryan” project
Other team member contributions
- Committed GitHub repo of another project without changing anything
- Slacked some code instead of putting in git
- Created more artwork and logos
- Nobody has used the GitHub issues or project board
Time sinks
- Spent more than an hour trying to kill a service
- Spent half an hour to build from source
- Broke the entire Node package
- Zone out in front of the monitor
GitHub insight
- A cool feature of owning a repository are insights
- See exactly how many clones and pulls to a repository there have been
Final day
- Thursday July 11th
Future
- Short term
- Long term

In Bootcamp #24: Mail Server

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:28:49 GMT

Follow up
- From Brandon @brandon_mn on Twitter
  - In bootcamp #22 follow-up:
    - - folks ask me about the U of M bootcamp and it's quality and I've always been like “Not sure - it’s a bootcamp, have fun!' but thanks to matt's feedback I won't be saying that
    - - ughhhhhh java
Computer science unit was super short
- Big-O notation
- Felt like Computer Science coverage from Bootcamp was very lacking
- High School AP Computer was better for Computer Science
- Bought a udemy course to bolster coverage
Mail server
- Mail server using Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL
- Why not use MailChimp or Sendgrid?
  - MailChimp apparently still requires mail server locally
- “You don’t know what you don’t know until you can’t do it”
Group project 3
- Not going so well
- Contributions are mediocre right now
Matt skipped HackerX
- Excuse #0
- Excuse #2
- Excuse #3

The Fringe #550: Mi Kasa, Su Casa

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:28:46 GMT

In Bootcamp #23: Computer Science

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:34:29 GMT

Notes:

Computer Science
- Sorting
  - Insert
  - Selection
  - Linear
  - Binary
  - Quick
- Overview on Big-O
- Time and Space complexity briefly
- These are on interviews often
Group project 3 update
Allegedly next week: other languages
- Ruby
- Python
Also next week
- HackerX in June

Attributions:

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The Fringe #549: It's A Banana Cat!

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:33:15 GMT

The Fringe #548: Floppy ANSWER

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:39:36 GMT

In Bootcamp #22: Java

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:39:21 GMT

React is done/ few last minute things
- Redux not covered
- Context not covered
- No hooks
Java
- It was hard to get started; installation was difficult
- Examples are not followed up on now
- Learning about packages; with the classpath
- Ryan shared Spring Initializer
- “What is the world?”
Changed the course syllabus
- Done with Java
- “Building webapps with Java” basically cut from the program
- Java homework is optional
Project 3
- Not going well already
- Thinking about automated deployments

In Bootcamp #21: Prime Digital

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:05:37 GMT

React
- State
- Using `.map` like a pro
- Used components like a beast
- Destructuring
Chat with the TA
- TA took Prime Digital
- UMN Bootcamp was very different in comparison
- He took the fulltime version for 20 weeks
- He would recommend Prime Digital
Profolio
- Professor suggested scraping the existing portfolio
- Trying a Gatsby template instead
- Good idea - except for keeping the template as is
- Gatsby starters
- Professor

In Bootcamp #20: React

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:30:30 GMT

React week begins
- Saturday class
- Back to the old room, so much room
- npx sudo fail
- React is cool
  - Playing with HTML in JavaScript
  - Learning JSX foundations
  - Styles with JSX
- Professor: Redux is dead
- Professor: React native is bad
  - React Native What We Learned After 6 Months

The Fringe #546: Your Sump Pump is Drier Than a Boneyard

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:30:28 GMT

Matt buys 210 booster packs of Pokemon cards - and tells Ryan all about his adventures in making a complete set.

In Bootcamp #19: Open Source North

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:27:56 GMT

Two class periods off
- No Saturday or Tuesday classes due to the Memorial Day holiday
More MongoDB
- Mongodb-driver
- Moved away from just using the shell
- Just under 6% market share
Mongoose
- Everything just works!
Open source north
- Hi Aron
- Turkey and cookies
- The world is big
- I did not really learn anything, just got to see what I need to go home a google,
  - Scala
  - Apache kafka
  - Knative
  - Glue
- ≠ null
- Ryan’s favorite talks
HackerX again someday
- Late June; still not quite done with bootcamp yet

The Fringe #545: Vibrate their soil with your words

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:27:53 GMT

Before the show, Matt tells Ryan about pokemon. This becomes a trend.

In Bootcamp #18: Mongo

Wed, 29 May 2019 23:18:54 GMT

Mongodb & Robo Mongo
- No defined shape, you can do anything
- Windows struggles to handle Mongo
Group project 2
- Not much experience prior to the project with Express and Seqelize
- Passport threw everyone for a loop
  - This is a pandemic issue in JavaScript today; very little documentation and cookbook examples are available and kept up-to-date
- Some team members did not contribute very much
  - Some team members were instructed about an issue but then did it again later
- The team received an A on this project
- What did I learn?
  - Travis and Git repositories
  - Nobody likes to communicate
  - “I don’t know what I’m doing”
Group project 3
- React
- MongoDB
Open Source North

The Fringe #544: Carrots: the orange sticks

Wed, 29 May 2019 23:18:51 GMT

In Bootcamp #17: Maximum Development Efficiency

Thu, 23 May 2019 23:43:25 GMT

In Class
- Unit tests
- Endpoint testing
- Chai, mocha
Group Project 2
- 5 days left and still have nothing to show
- 2 group members not working on it
- Team members misunderstood SQL file
- Breakdown of team communication and tasks
Teacher uses my computer
- Asked for help with Husky
- Brian doesn’t use Adblock
- NoScript; which nobody should use in their primary browser
Jobs
- Follow up from HackerX Associate Software Engineer & Customer Support
  - Java oriented
  - International Decision Systems, Group
  - Customer Support in the title is very dismaying
  - The job description... mentions a technology not to be used on the web
  - Job posting literally asks for a Bachelor's degree in computer science
- Location is a pro and a con

You are NOT looking for a job, you are looking to begin your career

The Fringe #542: Ryan Is Sleeveless Now

Thu, 23 May 2019 23:43:22 GMT

Matt and Ryan discuss hours and hours worth of agony, and then Matt explains all about toys to Ryan.

The Fringe #541: The Greatest of Ewww

Thu, 16 May 2019 09:52:40 GMT

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In Bootcamp #16: Tools and Tricks

Thu, 16 May 2019 09:50:12 GMT

Refreshing on Sequelize
Group Project 2 begins
- Idea: D&D character stats and inventory
  - 5 person team
  - Some overlap from previous team
  - About 2 weeks to do it
- Requirements
  - Needs node, express, handlebars, mysql, sequelize
  - MVC folders
  - GET and POST routes for CRUD
  - Deploy using Heroku
  - Using a new package/library the class has not used yet
    - Possibly pdf generation
    - Possibly user authentication
  - Polished UI
  - Code quality, prettier, eslint
Eslint
- npm run lint -- --fix
- Did you set up prettier?
TravisCI
- Expensive
npm odd audited 176 packages in 0.99s
- Xray from Jfrog is used in our pipeline
Firefox

In Bootcamp #15: Sequelize

Wed, 08 May 2019 19:12:42 GMT

Ubuntu 19.10 is out
Sick, did not go to class
Problems
- MySQL installation
- DBeaver
- Workbench issues
ORM - Object-relational mapping
Twitter clone
Sequelize
- mysql
Better twitter clone
Project 2

Attributions

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The Fringe #539: The Foot Is In My Mouth

Wed, 08 May 2019 19:12:40 GMT

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In Bootcamp #14: Handlebars

Wed, 01 May 2019 19:20:02 GMT

In class group project for the whole class period
- Star wars
- Reserve tables app
Learning Express
- More express
  - app.get, app.post
- MySQL with ajax
- Handlebars
Homework
- Make something like this, friend finder
Linux

Attributions

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The Fringe #535: The Beats Can’t Be Real

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:09:08 GMT

In Bootcamp #13: So SQL

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:46:24 GMT

SQL
- Actually using larger data sets
- JOINs and Unions
- Complex selects
Node apps
- createServer
- Server side routes
- Simple APIs
Power cable

Attributions

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The Fringe #534: Your Beard Has No Volume

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:06:49 GMT

Before the show Matt looks up microphones while Ryan talks about the paywall.

In Bootcamp #12: Half Way

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:06:41 GMT

MySql
- Workbench
- Mamp and Xampp
- Tables
Node
- Practice what we know
Homework
- Make a video to demo
- Liri Node App Code
Ryan
- Chatted with various graduates from the U of M Bootcamp as they were looking for work at a mini-job fair
  - Half seemed to take the 3mo, the others took the 6mo course
  - Lots of them fondly remember their group work
    - When asked the challenge of that group work...
      - Getting coordination of the tasks
      - Communication among the team
      - “Backfilling” technical knowledge
  - Only a few had “personal” projects that got them excited outside of their course work
  - Some had previous experience that helped “align” them with possible employers
    - An example would, for you, applying at a Logistics company

Attributions

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In Bootcamp #11: Node Continued

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:57:20 GMT

Node
- npm
- Practicing using JavaScript in node with axios, mapquest api and weatherjs
- Nested code; callbacks
- div-soup
New JavaScript
- Constructors, class-like things
Home work
- Update the portfolio
- https://mattpetschl.github.io/portfolio/
- http://matthewpetschl.com/
Upcoming
- Next, Advanced JavaScript
- Then, MySQL
- And later, Express

Attributions

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Copyright

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The Fringe #532: Jewelry Boxes and Art

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:57:17 GMT

Before the episode begins, Matt talks about Ryan's legacy of Jewelry Boxes and Art.

In Bootcamp #10: Beginning Node

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:34:32 GMT

Learning...
- Node right now!
  - Mostly everyone had it installed
  - No “server” stuff right now, but little scripts
  - Be sure to ignore `node_modules`
  - Some people really struggled
Follow up from Interview Day
- A response from the company
- How to write a thank you letter
  - How to follow up and state continued interest anyway
Group Project 1
- People management
  - What do with contributors with little contribution?
  - What counts and what’s worth it?
- Code management
  - Handling merge conflicts
  - Observation skills are a challenge across the team
  - Look’n’feel
  - Broken code and poor quality working code in places
- Presentation
  - Single member wanted to own presentation
  - Rejected offer to collaborate on Google Slides
  - What team members participated
- Final Grade
  - A......... what?
Saturday profressor on news http://www.fox9.com/good-day/learning-to-code-at-the-university-of-minnesota
Open Source North
- We have tickets!

Attributions

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Copyright

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The Fringe #531: Purpulized

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:34:30 GMT

Matt talks about learning more after class because the professor was desperate.

In Bootcamp #9: Interview Day

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:26:23 GMT

Classwork
- New material is sort of on pause?
Groupwork
- Recent drops in class
  - CS major?
  - Another team member
- Group merges
- How many have contributed so far?
Interview Day
- Back at HackerX, you did get a callback to participate in a bulk Interview Day
  - You had a orientation call
  - Some sample coding prompts and study guide given
  - Then a day-before get together to meet folks from the business and meet other candidates
- Then on Interview day in office
  - Breakfast and later lunch
  - A 4 hour “coding test”
    - What kind of questions? Mergesort?
    - Did you freeze or work on each as much as possible?
    - Were the prompts cryptic or okay?
  - Then a couple interviews
    - A question on tech
    - A question on soft skills
- Results - Where do you go from here?
  - Was it worth it?
  - The realization of failure; no impediment to the future
Next time?

Attributions

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The Fringe #529: Instentius Critazimum

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:26:20 GMT

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In Bootcamp #8: Group Project 1

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:25:35 GMT

Firebase
- Pricing
- Many services
Group project has finally started
- Project; free choice among the group
- Picking a topic
- Topic: NHL
- Git & collaboration
Follow up from HackerX
- Setup a call with their team
- Preparing for interview
  - Coding questions
  - Soft questions typically found in interviews
First job inside, how can I break up the day?
- Can I just get up?
- Can I go for a walk?
  - Yes.

Attributions

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Copyright

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The Fringe #526: The Dark Conference

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:25:33 GMT

Before the show, Ryan's sick and Matt doesn't remember the rules so Ryan has to mute him occasionally.

The Fringe #524: Chicken Hut

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:03:40 GMT

Matt tells Ryan about class before the show, and mentions... chicken hut.

In Bootcamp #7: HackerX

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:41:02 GMT

Class topics
- JavaScript, more on APIs
- Weather API; API keys
- Cookies
- Local storage
- Instructor was a troll
  - The data was not stored anywhere
Preparing for groups
- Acknowledging those that are doing well seemingly
- Guidance on what to do with those that don’t participate
SCRUM
- Early standup
- Demo
Trying your hardest
- Either not hard at all
- Or committed despite the odds
Helping others in class
- Connecting the dots
  - Almost handed the answer and the connection is a google-a-way but the dots don’t connect
HackerX
- Business cards
- Resume
- Elevator pitch
- Event
  - Did you feel prepared?
  - What was most overwhelming?
  - Who did you talk to?
  - How did it go?
  - What did you learn?

Attributions

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Copyright

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In Bootcamp #6: AJAX and APIs

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:31:23 GMT

Homework
- Value in a tag
- https://mattpetschl.github.io/unit-4-game/
Api
Ajax
Avg function
GitHub cleanup
Working on business cards, resume and linkedin

Attributions

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Copyright

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The Fringe #523: Assign a valuable

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:31:21 GMT

The studio sounds weird and Ryan recalls his declaration of independence.

In Bootcamp #5: Brand Statement

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:58:43 GMT

Turned in the Pokemon Game
Bootstrap
jQuery
Thursday - Review day
- Waste of time
- Talk to your neighbors until they know JavaScript...?
Beginning to start working on your brand?
- Working on the resume and
- Planning for interviewing

Attributions

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Copyright

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The Fringe #522: The same but different

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:58:33 GMT

Matt broke his setup, probably due to linux, the greatest operating system in the world.

The Fringe #520: Ocasta

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:56:18 GMT

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In Bootcamp #4: Catch Em All

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:56:13 GMT

No class this week because of awful weather or snow

JavaScript
- Last week: ifs and loops
- Functions and objects
- And Dom manipulation and jQuery
- jQuery is it an industry standard in 2019 and beyond
Weird expectations? Learn nothing new...
Struggled with the homework, still got an A
Development tools in chrome
Pokemon hangman game!

Attributions

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In Bootcamp #3: Rock Paper Scissors

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:45:09 GMT

It’s cold here in Minnesota
End of week 3
CSS Media Queries
Bootstrap
JavaScript
- Starting with Boolean, strings and numbers
- Syntax error : write a for loop
jQuery

Connect With The Nexus

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The Fringe #518: Position Matters

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:45:02 GMT

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In Bootcamp #2: Off the Grid

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:00:58 GMT

Episode Summary

Martin Luther King day; no class to keep in sync with the other section missing their class
The professor has been making enquiries about our plans

Others were taking the course to get better employment options directly,
On the first night, I said just for fun, so... what’s up with the questions?

Bootstrap

Using Bootstrap 4 and learning Flexbox with bootstrap grids

Not
Focus
Learning about accessibility
Digital Accessibility | JavaScript MN

Connect With The Nexus

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The Fringe #516: Brand Spanking New

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:00:04 GMT

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In Bootcamp #1: The First Week

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:04:19 GMT

Episode Summary

Day 1 and 2

30 students in the class
Classmates - generally not computer savvy
Little to no pre work done on average
Not an actual professor
- Does this for fun
- Works with React

Windows was not needed at all
Industry misconceptions
- “Java isn’t used much now”

No work ahead work
3 group projects

Weekend Class

Couldn’t settle down; was thinking about work the whole time
- Plenty of time on Tuesday/Thursday to unwind before the class
60 people in the Saturday class!
Class lectures are broken up with little exercises; keeps you engaged
- Some of these were refreshers

Connect With The Nexus

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In Bootcamp #0: The Week Before

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:11:59 GMT

Episode Summary

You can read about the University of Minnesota's coding bootcamp here.

Connect With The Nexus

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