Coder Manual Week 2 (mid week)

This is just a brief update, as I'm not fully done week 2 yet. We've covered a lot about HTML and Style Sheets and I've just began touching on using JavaScript. I've been looking forward to this because JavaScript is actual programming, not just cosmetics, which is what HTML and CSS are mainly about. So far in the javascript bit, we've just covered the usual programming stuff: loops, conditionals, and a bit of syntax. I'm really looking forward to learning how to get javascript to interact with HTML content though.
I've also started the first assignment. The assignments are basically just working through the free content provided by Codecademy. This was a little disappointing (it would have been MUCH more disappointing if I had paid full price for the course), but Codecademy is actually pretty good. The topics in Codecademy are broken up into bite-sized pieces, where they introduce a concept (which I had already covered in Code Manual) and they get you to put it into practice in the little built-in compiler. Once you've entered the information they want you to (such as creating a small webpage with headings, colors, fonts, etc.) you hit "save and submit" and it'll tell you if you did it right. You do also get to see a preview of the changes, so it's not like you're flying blind.

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Having looked at job postings for software developers, it seems like most employers want you to know MANY languages at once. I saw very few posts asking for 1 or 2 languages, and some of them asked for languages I've never even heard of. 

While going out and buying books on a number of language is one way of going about learning them, Boot Camps seemed more appealing. Until I saw the price tag. Fortunately, I was alerted to one bootcamp that was having sale: An extensive 12 week online Program to Learn to Code for $39.00 (originally $499). Heck, that's the cost of a programming book, so I signed up. 

The company hosting the bootcamp is CoderManual, and the membership is being sold through StackSocial, See it here.

It's a fairly young bootcamp, having been started in January 2015, so not many reviews are available yet. The general consensus is "so far so good", it seems. 

Since I've just started, I'll try and post updates about it as I go.