The Revamped Web Developer Bootcamp 2020 — Colt Steele
HyeYep! That’s right. I was just as surprised and still am now. This course is a masterpiece, an absolute must have for the aspiring Web Developer. Well at least the previous course was. This course however has been completely redone. From the ground up. With tons of additional content. And the most important to note, it’s all up-to-date with modern syntax as opposed to the previous edition that was released.
Now if you’ve never taken The Web Developer Bootcamp course before, there are always constant sales going on on Udemy, where you will find the course. At the time of writing, the course is currently being sold for $139. I highly advise against buying the course at this price tag considering the fact that Udemy always have HUGE discounts. I snagged this masterpiece up for $10. That’s right $10.
Now what is covered in this course you might ask, or even why is it so glorified ? Well Colt is an in person bootcamp instructor with a 94% job acceptance rate after graduation. He brings all of that along with his fantastic teaching/explanation skills to table and that’s what makes him and his courses one of a kind.
The Web Developer Bootcamp 2020 covers HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JS, Mongo, Node, NPM, and so-so much more. Check out the link above for more info. Now the numbers speak for itself. Over 600,000 students has enrolled and with a rating of 4.7/5 this is a no brainer.
Now just a brief overview of some of the main tools/technologies for the not so familiar individuals that are covered in this web dev course.
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HTML: “Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.”
CSS: “CSS is designed to enable the separation of presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts.[3]”
JS: “JavaScript is an interpreted programming language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification. JavaScript is high-level, often just-in-time compiled, and multi-paradigm. It has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions.”
Bootstrap: “Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS- and (optionally) JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components.
Bootstrap is the seventh-most-starred project on GitHub, with more than 142,000 stars, behind freeCodeCamp (almost 312,000 stars) and marginally behind Vue.js framework.”
MongoDB: “MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. No database makes you more productive.”
NodeJS: “Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting — running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user’s web browser.”
The course offers tons of information. With 61.5 hours of content, this will almost double considering code-alongs and having struggles along the way, which is inevitable as a developer. Course material will always be updated and the final project, Yelp Camp, is an enormous production ready application that one will learn a lot from bringing all the technologies together.
How to get the most out of the course:
To get the most out of the course I believe the best way to go about it is, taking your time. As simple as it may sound, it is very important to go at your own pace. You do not need to try and complete the course within the 61.5 hour eta time. With this being self-paced and not time restricted you have the perfect opportunity to do just that. Taking notes will only go as far as you practicing. So do both, practice and take notes.
Make your own version of the projects. Tutorials are great but making your own spin off of that tutorial will give you an even greater understanding of the material being covered.
Spaced Repetition: “Spaced repetition is an evidence-based learning technique that is usually performed with flashcards. Newly introduced and more difficult flashcards are shown more frequently, while older and less difficult flashcards are shown less frequently in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect.”
