Today I sat with 3 other students and went over orientation at Bloc. It took 30 minutes to go through the material. MOST of the material that they covered in orientation was openly available on their website already. They did make it a point to drive home a few key points. It's Up To You! This makes total sense to me and I think it is sad that they have to include it and drive the concept home. But I am sure that someone at some point said something about not knowing it was up to them to learn to code. You have to do the work. Yes they will be there to help but at the end of the day no one from Bloc is going to go sit with you at your job and help you out. Why not get started with that concept early on, accept it and move on. Be Professional They said to remain professional at all times. The example used was to not show up to your mentor meeting in your pajamas. Again, I am sure this has happened before. I intend to take this seriously and besides, who wears pajamas anymore? ...
On November 13, 2017 I will be starting the web development course at bloc.io . Why I chose Bloc? So, here is the brief overview of my current situation. It will help to explain why I would chose a program like Bloc. For the past decade I have been interested and tinkered around with coding and web development. I am a self-taught, DIY kind of person. Over the years I have had some paying gigs developing websites for friends and people I had the luck of running into just when they needed someone to help them. These gigs usually revolved around wordpress. I learned CSS and HTML on my own and honestly found that to be pretty straight forward. However, wordpress uses PHP which is an actual programming language. I fiddled around with it, read documentation at php.net and tried to find as many tutorials on it as I possibly could. css-tricks.com was/is an amazing website and produced some really awesome videos that helped me learn the ecosystem. The problem was that I wasn't learni...