Our first day with JavaScript and now I can officially call myself a programmer without getting mean looks from real tech professionals.
We covered all the basics as an introduction to JS with the promise to revisit everything in depth over the next few weeks. During my pre-work assignments, and my own self-study, JS has always been a challenge. Its not that there are a lot of things to learn; there are only but so many commands. Its just stringing them together into logical results that actually do things. Our project today was to create a Choose Your Own Adventure game in JS. The hardest part was developing a story but the actual language was pretty straightforward. The final challenge was to rewrite the story using HTML and JS together. This involves functions, hidden DIVs, DOM manipulation and a bunch of other things that were a bit too much for me.
And even though I didn't get full credit for my HTML/CSS website from over the weekend I am still proud that I could create all that after one week in the class. I'm not yet comfortable saying that the bootcamp was worth the big upfront payment, but at this rate I will definitely be a competitive programmer in 12 weeks. As long as my head doesn't explode or I don't go through a nervous breakdown.
