mrborgen

Yeah, the ReactHelp.com was our first MVP, but we wanted something a bit broader, so we got this one up yesterday. Glad you like it.

Oh, thanks for the tip! We'll definitely look into that. :)

Hey, thanks, glad you liked the help you got.

But there certainly is a difference on how easy people pick up coding. This has a lot to do with attitude, but also how talented they are. As with all other skills, you're given a set of cards to play with.

But then again, practice beats talent any day of the week.

I wrote the original article this one is based upon.

I very much enjoyed reading this one. Though I always find it more beginner friendly to start off with a framework rather than going vanilla. That goes for almost all subjects in tech. Then you can dive deeper into the material once you have a basic understanding.

Here is a link to the original article: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/building-your-first-re...

Haven taken this course (though I will), but check out Andrew Ng's Coursera's ML course. He gives a crash course in linear algebra. It helped me a lot in my endeavours in ML & neural nets. I also like to learn as I go along, and this intro was just about enough to get started.

Great points. This is very much aligned with my experience.

"My biggest concern with coding bootcamps as an industry is that the people making the decision about which bootcamp to attend are dramatically under-qualified to make the decision and therefore relatively more prone to both scams and instructor incompetence."

That's one of the main reasons I wrote this article, as I believe that doing proper research beforehand is one of the best ways to ensure that you don't end up at a scam bootcamp. I think you'll agree with me on that one.

Something I've been wondering for a while: are you considering opening up physical bootcamps as well?

Prior: knew some jQuery & JS, a little bit of Python. Did not know how to use Ajax, setup a server. Generally bad algorithm skills. Knew nothing about Node & React.

What I learned at FAC is well documented in this article: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/from-non-technical-to-...

I would simply not have been able to do the work I'm doing.

Awesome day: I get to start building a whole new feature on our product, features that'll make a difference for our customers.

No days are actually dreadful, but it's not very fun get assigned to bug fixing. This normally involves digging through old code I know nothing about (in various different files) and trying to understand the functionality and struggle my way through fixing it.

I did not; I feel I'm only judged by the work I do, not my background.

Though the transition was a bit hard, as our product & codebase is much bigger than what I was used to. Plus there's so much setup and various tools being used in the codebase which I don't really know anything about.

Compared to my projects at Founders and Coders, where I pretty much knew most of the codebase of our projects.

As for the actual coding; my React & Javascript learning curve has been steep, but manageble. If you'll get from 0 to half professional, you're also able to go from half professional to professional.

I do agree that one persons success with something (getting a job, losing weight etc) isn't a very good prediction on most people's result using the same technique. And yes, I don't think all aspiring developers should do a bootcamp either. It wont replace a CS degree, and there are tons of ways to become a developers just using online tools/courses.

My motive with this article isn't to encourage more people to go to bootcamps, but help those who want to go do bootcamps do better research before they apply, as there are a lot of bad bootcamps out there.

Given the lack of web developers and demand for the skill, I don't doubt that some schools have 90 percent hiring rate.

Regarding salary compared to doctors? It seems better than it is. In Norway, starting salary for doctors is about the same as anyone with a masters degree.

Hey, author of the article here. I'm happy to answer any questions if anybody's got any.

Yeah, I wanted to understand how they worked, so I stayed away from any framework.

I have since moved over to using Theano, Lasagne & nolearn. However, I almost find it just as hard, because it's so easy to step wrong and get errors, and so hard to debug. In addition, Lasagne & nolearn doesn't exactly have great documentation of tutorials available (they have some, but I like to try out many tutorials to get perspective and get a proper understanding).

I'm far from good enough to turn my implementations into frameworks :p

That's a valid point. I guess this comes down to personal preferences.

I do use articles too, but I normally start out with videos. If it's too slow, YouTube fortunately has got the 1.5x speed option :)

Yeah, that was my very first one. I have since started with vectorized implementations instead of that clumsy way I did it the first time. However I found vectorization a bit tricky at first.

I'm actually planning to try and learn convolutional nets soon, and will try to setup a small study group online (basically just a repo with materials and a Slack/Gitter chat room), where people can help each other with learning it. Do you think that would help you to learn it?

I'd love to answer questions here if anybody have any :)

Thanks!

It's been quite a discussion on Reddit on the article. Feel free to ask questions here as well and I'll answer as best as I can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3z0fmv/how_i_learne...

Takk!

Thanks!

Thanks, I think so as well. Being truly interested in the field makes all the difference. At least is has for me.

Yeah, I'm learning just as much as a hired front end developer as I did at my bootcamp. More narrow focus, which gets you deeper into the subjects.

Nice service! May I ask what machine learning technology you're using? I'm experimenting with neural nets these days, in order to learn the basics of image & speech recognition and would love to hear about your experiences if your'e usikg ANN's.

Shameless self promotion here... I wrote an article on how to get up an running with basic machine learning in a week:

https://blog.skcript.com/machine-learning-in-a-week-a0da25d5...

Sorry, it's full. But we're considering filming the lectures and putting them online.

I attended this course earlier this year. Just landed a job at a startup in Norway as a front-end developer; a direct consequence of the course, which was the most intense learning experience I've had; never learned as much in three months ever before.

Happy to answer questions if anybody has got any.

I'm very interested in feedback on the tutorial. It's under development and will be the basis of a lecture on the subject in next week.

Find anything that you don't think is explained well enough, or in the wrong way? Please notify me in the comments here or simply raise an issue. Thanks!