I’m late for this blog post but it’s because I have been busy trying to wrap my head around understanding object oriented Ruby as opposed to plan old procedural Ruby - which I was just starting to feel comfortable with! :)
Every day I’m in it I am just more and more excited to be doing this. I love the feeling when I get my code, an otherwise seemingly nonsensical mess of ASCII, to actually execute as expected after tweaking it for hours and hours on end.
I have a bachelor’s degree which helped me get a great job in the DC area but I know I’ve advanced as far as I’m going to without any further education. While I was looking into master’s certificates and various other ways to further my education, I learned about coding bootcamps. I didn’t think much of the idea at first but as I kept considering how to proceed my mind kept taking me back to the boot camp idea… learn a solid skill relatively fast and be able to apply it immediately. In my mind, what I’d do with a formal master’s certificate was a lot more abstract and I just wasn’t as comfortable with that. They’re not colleges and they’re typically not accredited so I was still pretty sceptical about a bootcamp but the more I learned about what was involved, the more comfortable I became - after all what would I rather graduate with, another piece of paper from an accredited college, or a portfolio of work I can showcase and be proud of? Once I understood that a bootcamp would help me accomplish the latter AND after I found Flatiron with it’s great reputation and super helpful admissions team, I decided to take the plunge.