> I don't know how "good" I am. There seems to be a lot of people smarter than me. Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid
- Einstein
In short, don't measure your skill by comparing it against others. You're an apple, that other guy's an orange. We're all different.> Completing assignments faster than me. They're either really ahead of you, or they just ask on StackOverflow faster (probably the latter, definitely the latter). Besides, if they were really good, why go to a bootcamp? That doesn't make sense. :P While coding speed is good, in real life, it doesn't matter. There are other things that matter besides speed, like code quality, maintainability, architecture. In real work, management takes care of you in terms of time. You'll always be given a reasonable amount of time to finish things. > I was deemed incompetent and let go Past is past. Let go and move on. Past mistakes, present experience. > The bootcamp teaches Rails and javascript. I'm wondering - would a job in drupal have an easier learning curve? How would it be different? I can say working with Drupal is pretty nice. Most of your time, you'll be site-building - configuring sites via an admin panel, looking for modules that satisfy some requirement, download themes, maybe tweak some CSS. The only time you get to write code is when you need to tweak something not built-in, or when you need to alter default behavior. For the most part, it's in PHP which shouldn't be that far from JS in terms of syntax and quirks. jQuery is built-in to Drupal, so as long as you know jQuery, you're safe. If you have a Drupal job offer, by all means go for it. You'll have to grind gears at first, Drupal's documentation is terrible (I'll give it some slack, terribly organized) and the forums replies gap months (but hey, it's open source. everyone's a volunteer). But once you get the hang of it, you'll never leave it. |