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Last fall I went through a coding bootcamp in Toronto. It was 9 weeks of hard work sprinkled with lots of frustration and lots of feel good successes. A main takeaways I had was everyone comes in with a different background and everyone has a unique approach to learning.

The problem expressed in this article is a fundamental bottleneck of education. The communication between teacher and student is often misinterpreted at both ends and the subject matter is never perfectly conveyed or received.

I feel what really lacks in the learn to code community is teaching one how to actually learn. Lay a positive attitude towards failure and a framework of problem solving first, the content and understanding of a language will come after.