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by veza 3300 days ago
Disclaimer: East-European hustle version (self-directed and free)

Not really a bootcamp but a combination of udacity, lynda, online books/tutorials.

My Background: tennis coach, basic arithmetic, PC power user.

    May 2013 - Start learning HTML->CSS->jQuery(Codeacademy+other)->Python(Udacity:Intro to CS+Web Dev)
                  ->Javascript(Eloquent JS)->PHP&MySQL(Lynda) (+countless others in between)
             - Went for PHP as I started looking for jobs and there were almost no Python options.

    Apr 2014 - First Job - for a friend of mine who has an online tennis shop 
             - Opencart (mainly front-end templating, some jQuery - mostly plugins usage)

    Jul 2014- Second Job - a web shop (10 people) - still have this one but doing totally different stuff
             - Wordpress theme customizing (still mostly front-end and jQuery, some php)

    Sep 2014 - First 'big' project: 2 person, Codeigniter+Postgres
             - Built the whole front-end (learned that css on a big website is hard and you need some architecture)
             - Ended up doing some CRUD stuff on the admin side too

    May 2015 - d3.js project - a landing page with lots of custom graphs and a custom map 
              (started the project with 0 knowledge of d3 - finished quite well)
             - Interestingly enough I was already 'the javascript' guy at the shop so this was assigned to me

    Jul 2015- Tryout with a remote team in my area working for an american startup 
            - Flask, microservices, aws, data analysis - cool stuff
            - they needed me on the back-end - got rejected, 
            - the lead said I was too inexperienced and that he didn't have time too train me.

    Aug 2015- Built a custom Wordpress theme for a website 

    Sept 2015- Python job - for a US based startup 
             - a LOT of scripts, mainly web scraping, data mining, data cleaning
             - a LOT of sql for all that data
             
    Sept 2016- Started working on a new front-end for the same US based startup
             - React, Webpack, ES6, NPM, Babel, Flux... head-blown, die...