| I'm a Lambda school student. AMA I'm in the FSW program but we're past that now. I've watched how people move in and out of the cohort I'm in. I went in knowing how to make a basic website, a bit of sqlm and a bit of a few other of the topics covered. This put me ahead of about 60-70% of the cohort. I have noticed students getting very hung up on the particular stack. It does seem that a few are just copying and pasting code to get it to work. This was also the case when I went to college though. What I don't see people mentioning is the effort their putting into improving the curriculum. It's a living thing unlike most college classes I've been in. They no longer teach Bootstrap for example (which was probably causing most students more trouble than it was worth). I'm on average doing something coding related 8-10 hours a day now. Occasionally I take days off and go play Minecraft or something. I make about one extra project every two weeks the latest being ( https://whatisthecolorofthesky.netlify.com/ ) The people I see being the most successful are the ones who probably could have succeeded without Lambda. However I think a sense of direction, a constant source of help, and a sense of community accelerates the pace. I don't know if I'm going to regret spending 7 months (plus whatever the job search takes) of my life doing this but hey it beats what I was doing before. If you're curious what the class content looks like it's in my Github which is linked in my profile. |