Doing Lambda School (Coding Bootcamps) Right

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While this is going to be specific to Lambda School, it applies to simply self-taught learning, as well as other boot camps.

Everyone who attends a boot camp can attest that you are taught a rigid pattern that is specific to that boot camp. Normally you will go through HTML & CSS, then into a CSS Pre-processor of some sort (Lambda removed LESS from their program), then you move on to Javascript, then a framework then advanced elements of that framework.

Now here is where things diverge a bit. Some boot camps do EITHER front or back end. Lambda is full stack with react => redux => node. Then into a CS unit to learn basic python and algorithms.

Pretty sweet right? Yes, and no. It leaves huge gaps to fill which is what we will be addressing here. I want to fill those gaps and ensure that you are able to get things all put together so that you can get to the end goal of being a well-rounded software engineer. We will see from HTML to Node in this article, outside of that we will not be addressing because this is what I consider the Critical Core.

Now after finishing this I realized that it is a bit choppy (sorry) but it gives you a ton of resources to get to where you want to go. As a final piece of advice I propose that you clock the hours that you are working on learning. While this is kind of…