Life, new and improved

As a baby coder I am blessed to have such an amazing mentor.  A big part of what he has taught me is through how he gives back to the community. One of the most powerful lessons he has taught me along the way is when you see a bug on a website, trouble shoot it and let them know.  Don't just email them that the website is broken.  You have some knowledge, use it to at least go through the steps to recreate the problem, take screen shots and send a real report.  Inspect the code and give specific keys to where the problem is happening on the UX side. I recently came across a bug in one of my favorite local vendor websites and was able to come to two simple possible roots to the problem.  I've found that the exchange is always received favorably and with appreciation.  In this case there wasn't much to tell or test but typically I advise to go as deep as you can. When my mentor has shared bugs with me he inspects the code, digs into what divs and ...

MY EXPERIENCE GOING THROUGH A CODING BOOT CAMP Add this to the long list of blogs out there about this style of schooling but I hope my experience can help others determine what's best for them as so many others did for me. I started my journey and interest in coding as I've always been a builder, whether that be building tiny houses, field camps, connections to other humans or software and web applications.  So I started learning on my own via freecodecamp.com, Udemy, and the list goes on.  The common thread for me was how hard it was to really buckle down and do the coding on my own.  I'd run into road blocks and spin on them for  hours with little resolution or I wouldn't be able to utilize the lessons to do anything outside of what they were walking me through step by step so the skills seemed less applicable.  I recognize these were all valuable tools but I was struggling to truly utilize them without a little more structure. So I star...