Learning the Frame — Lambda School Style!

For all web developers looking to be a full-stack or a front end developer you have to learn your stack, and that starts with your front end framework. Over the last couple of weeks, I delved fairly in-depth into that. Now keep in mind that I am currently attending Lambda School. However, it was on a break, and I refuse to let my skills atrophy.

Inside of each group at Lambda School it is pretty clear that there are those who are determined to succeed and those who are not. That is an honest statement. As the school evolves and makes changes there is a balance of good and bad, and while I understand from my history why some of the changes might be important, it ignores the fact that some of us older folks may have a background that supersedes some of the career side of things that is being taught.

As I keep saying, overall my personal experience has been pretty great. Unit 2 has been rough and brought a challenge of an instructor who, while meaning well, struggled to convey any real information, and it caused the majority of my cohort to have to scramble to pass the tests called sprint challenges and to get the module projects in. That said the instructor was replaced, first by a lead instructor, and then afterward by a very capable and passionate instructor who knew his stuff.

Now I stated that in each cohort there are those who want to succeed and those who do not. That is a very simplistic, and very harsh way to say it, so let's lessen the blow a bit. There are those who put in the…