Learning Plan

What is your long term goal and/or career pathway?

I’d like to have my own startup or business making tools for the furniture/woodworking industry. I’m also happy with having a full time Software job and working on open-source furniture/woodworking projects separately.

During this course I am hoping to get enough of a jump start on my knowledge that I can get a job with a supportive team that will help me mature into a proper software developer.

What do you think your biggest strengths and limitations with be in Bootcamp?

I think my strengths still parrot what I said in sprint 2. I am hardworking, growth minded. I think my limitations are different, through the help of meditation, and time blocking I feel that I am able to stay on task and get things done!

My new weakness is maybe over comparing myself to my classmates and there progress vs my own. I will need to be kind to myself.

What do you think your biggest non-technical challenge at bootcamp will be?

I think working with other people. As a motivated person, I will be eager to move at my pace, and the different levels of the class both above and below my own level I can see being a challenge.

What non-technical skills - human skills - would you like to see developed in yourself while at Dev Academy?

Definitely the ability to give feedback in a way that is received well, and to improve my active listening skills, and not just be so eager for the other person to stop talking so i can talk :sweat_smile:

What are your expectations from the Bootcamp team?

I expect them to push my limits and facilitate the reshaping of my brains neural pathways.

What are your expectations of yourself on Bootcamp?

To push my limits and to facilitate the reshaping of my brains neural pathways.

How are you going to manage your workload?

I’ve already been keeping a very positive adherence to the schedule posted in my learning plan blog post, but here’s a copy to save you a click.

The only update to this plan is instead of having weekends completely off to recharge, I will need to add one more day of study to keep up with the 60hrs expectation that Dev Academy has set.

In preperation for this I’ve made a plan with my partner to make sure we can achieve this as a family, and that our friends and whānau can help out over the next 9 weeks while I am diligently studying.