Cultivating Coders

I'm a recent attendee(for lack of a better term) who has participated in Cultivating Coder's summer bootcamp in New Mexico; I have to say,  In terms of the material we went over, it was certainly a lot to take in, and it was refreshing to know first-hand what coding is like! Although, because I have never coded in my life until this point in time, it was difficult to grasp the material, which was because either:

-There wasn't enough time to really feel out how to formulate a line of code, or what it means, as we had brief explanations given to us about what certain parts did. The problem with this, I think, is that because in terms of coding, because there are a multitude of ways to create a functioning code, it becomes rather confusing if there is no "right way" to code. 

-We had to ask multiple different questions, as we were anticipated for a good majority of the camp for things that we did individually, as opposed to doing things more so as a class when the people there almost had no knowledge of coding to begin with. It would be helpful, I think, if we were able to go over things as a class much more formally than what was done. Another thing would be to give the class daily assignments that they would have to do after the class, in order to get a better understanding of the material and content, but also to ensure that not everyone falls behind.

-Not everything we were promised was given to us. Specifically, when we were told that we would be able to use Oculus Rift headsets to learn how to code in virtual reality. Though I didn't have a problem with this, all things considered when learning the general process is much more important than moving onto more advanced curriculum. Although I did anticipate that we would go through that material, regardless.

Since I'm still new to coding, and what it entails, I take the class with strides as a hope to actually be capable of having more opportunities to learn in the near future, and to hone my skills that I've developed in the camp even further!

If you have the opportunity to attend a Cultivating Coders boot camp, do it! Cultivating Coders literally changed my life. You will learn the skill set to build responsive websites. This skill set includes, but is not limited to mySQL, PHP, JavaScript/Angular, NodeJs, CSS and HTML. The lead instructors Charles Sandidge (who is also co-founder and CTO of Cultivating Coders) and John Borden are exceptional. They truly care about their students. Not everyone learns at the same pace. Charles and John adjust the curriculum to keep everyone caught up. They will even stay after hours if you need help. Charles also introduces the students to the coding community by letting us know about meetings that are held around town that further our development. We even took a field trip! The assistant instructors, Krieg, Aarick, and Dana are always there to help you one on one. They make sure you understand the material before they go help another student.

If you want to learn a skill set that will reward you with a great career, Cultivating Coders is the way to go. I plan to continue studying coding with the help of my mentors, Charles and John who I now call my friends.

I've really enjoyed taking the Cultivating Coders Bootcamp classes in Farmington, New Mexico. Learning about mobile and web developing curriculum has changed my life in a way that there are more opportunties than I have had before I graduated the course. I'm really thankful for this opportunity to help my family become financially stable. Also being able to take and share this knowledge of computer coding to my family members whom may be interested in the program is a true honor. 

I strongly recommend the Cultivating Coders Bootcamp program for any individual who is interested in computer coding. It will change your life for the better, and more opportunities will be available. 

Ahe'ee, thank you to the Cultivating Coders Instructors and fellow classmates for the love & support to get through the 1st 8 week coding bootcamp together, and for that I am truly grateful. . 

My overal experiance was "it was ok, fun but ok". There were a lot of times I felt pushed and not enough time to focus on what we learned. It wasn't a huge wast of time, and I understand that there wasn't enough time to go over everything, but I do wish that it was planned slightly better. Not EVERY student learns the same and 3 months I feel was not enough time to have students feel comfortable about what they are learning, especially people like me. It was difficult to try and study outside of class due to no internet access. Coming into this like the others that have no coding experiance, I found it really difficult.

Another problem I have is the fact we would use websites that we would be told to use throughout the whole course and then just switch gears and intantly to remember something we only had a day to go over.  I feel that we were expected to instantly know things after a day, then on the next day told not everyone knows everything. It felt like a contradiction.

The last negative is with the instuctors. This goes with the teaching lessons. Google helps, but NOT ALL THE TIME. I would ask for help and they just say "google it". The reason I would ask for help is I dont know what to google, or just need a good push in the right direction. Sometimes I just don't know what to type or just google, especially if i'm frustrated and if I been working on something that should have taken "an hour" but I taken longer to figure it out. 

The positives is I'm glad I stuck with it and don't regret joining. I learned some skills that I can possibly use in my future. I did enjoy the fact that we got to choose our projects and have fun with them. The time of the class was nice, (meaning the time of day) and enjoyed getting to see presentors come in and show off their work like RS21. 

So yeah, My time here was "ok, fun but ok".  there were lot of good times I had here, and got to learn new things. I would recomend this place to those who just want to get a basis for understanding coding.  To those who want a full career in this field or something, either find a new class that would be longer,  or actually used code in the past so that you would have a head start and can understand a bit better. Once again I'm glad I came and don't regret joining. It poorly planned, and hard to follow instructors, especially for me.  Also there wasn't no VR that I'm kinda upset by because I want to go into gaming so VR would have been fun, but i'ts whatever.

(Most of this punctuation is gonna be wrong because im doing this fast becuase how upset I am about this)       

This was the biggest waste of 12 weeks than anything else could have been. I felt a HUGE lack of help after i fell the slightest behind. Once i was behind there was nothing i could do. I should have just quit there at that moment. I paid 9,000 to be told to google my question intead of gettin gin person help from the one I paid. I couldve learned the little that i did all online for FREE. I was honestly very hurt through these weeks of this bootcamp. I felt like i was neglected after i fell behind. I was given a project where I had to create a cirriculum for next summers bootcamp on a subject that i had no idea what it was. Im sorry Charles your a cool guy but I feel like you need new Teachers. How does someone expect me to learn a whole coding library in under 2 days when i cant even learn some basic crap in a week????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????