Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Yep. This wasn't a high school class. I'm talking about a full-time project-based bootcamp, taught by people who actually knew how to code, with lots of one-on-one coaching. Students weren't literally required by the state to be in the building, to start.

JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR... Getting selected to partake in an AP C++ class taught by a former IBM veteran programmer and practically failing it carries no emotional burden. While joining a grindhouse exploiting a fat tail and "not getting" it is PTSD inducing. Is that your stance?

Uh, no? I don't know the first thing about why you got a D in your high school class; I just don't presume anything about anyone based on their grades in compulsory schooling. But please, tell me more about my experience, and that of this third party you have never met.

AP isn't compulsory. Only a few get selected and I was lucky to make the cut. Are you saying the panics, and the confusion, and the fear of letting classmates down on shared projects are... made up? I was faking the whole thing? I still learned to code.

I think we're just talking past each other. I'm sorry this was such a difficult experience for you, and a terrible early introduction to something you'd later come to love. I'm glad you found your way back to it.

The worse part... half the class was about sorting techniques. After 20 years of doing this, I've used sorting techniques twice. They just assumed computing resources would always be expensive. Was it a JS bootcamp?

Python/js. Pretty light on CS principles, mostly focused on getting everyone to the point where they could spin up a flask app & work with APIs without hitting any walls, with a really quick go at resource management, testing, etc. It was definitely bare bones, but fun