Foundations Reflection

What are three new things you have learnt about yourself and your ego due to the core learning?

I have a fixed mindset and this is mainly due to the way I was brought up. This can change though and I am very committed to try and shift my mindset to a more growth perspective.

I am a very independent person and I don’t like asking for help. I rather cry all afternoon because I am not able to solve a challenge than asking for help. This is not good, I know!

I knew this already. I don’t like being vulnerable and I don’t enjoy to speak about my inner self. I have felt uncomfortable in some occasions during Foundations when I had to share my thoughts and my blogs with everyone.

What has surprised you the most about the core learning?

The fact that I enjoyed the topics covered during the core learning has been the real surprise for me. I have never been exposed to those concepts before and I have the feeling that I have now changed the way I see certain things thanks to the core material.

What were the most challenging aspects of the core learning?

Writing the blogs has been the hardest part of the core learning. Researching and learning about the core topics was so useful, but writing those blog has taken me a lot of time.
Writing and putting my thoughts into words doesn’t come easily to me, so every time is a long and tedious process. I go back and forth hundreds of times and I am never happy with what I wrote. This has made me quite frustrated at times as I was spending way more time doing core and reflections than coding.

Why do you think we, a programming school, are spending so much time focusing on core learning in a web development Bootcamp course?

A lot of programmers work in teams, so being able to interact with other people is an essential skill for a developer to have. Recent researches have showed that a greater number of employers would rather hire someone with excellent core skills and minimal tech knowledge, than a person who has a great technical background but lack of human skills.

Does the time you spent studying core learning here feel like a waste of time? Should you have just used that time to practise programming instead?

I have to admit that at the beginning of Foundations I felt quite annoyed about the whole core learning thing. Now, I absolutely don’t think that core learning is a waste of time, although I do think that there is way too many reflections to do. Some of the questions asked are really repetitive and could be avoided. I have enjoyed learning about the core concepts but at the same time writing the blogs have been really time consuming and I felt I was spending half of my week doing core and I didn’t dedicate enough time to coding, which is the primary reason I am here for.
I almost felt it was 50% Tech and 50% Core. If I could choose, I would rather do 80% Tech and 20% Core.