Having completed my junior year in my own self-study JavaScript Master Degree program it was time to step up my game for my senior year.
The teacher will disappear
I was making a quote generator to practice some JavaScript and there appeared - quite randomly - the following quote:
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
When the student is truly ready… the teacher will disappear.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
This hit me as the goal I was missing as I was entering my senior year - that I would know when to stop with the courses, the bootcamps, the tutorials - and that would be when I could build my own websites - from design to deployment - from frontend to backend.
Enter Scrimba
Having said that - I signed up for the Scrimba Frontend Developer Career Path which has a massive 70+ hours of content across 14 modules starting with fundamental CSS and HTML and ending by covering Advanced React.
Thus far, as I start August, I have completed the first three modules.
The first module was the intro to the unique Scrimba platform
The second and third module is where the course started to ramp up:
| Module | Description | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 2 of 14 | HTML & CSS basics | Kevin Powell |
| 3 of 14 | Making a website interactive | Nate Jensen, Bob Ziroll |
The third module, although billed as 6 hours, took me two weeks because it is practice heavy - every lesson the instructor asks you to pause the screencast and do a challenge. This is an excellent way to reinforce what you’re learning versus the Udemy way of the code-along.
So how long?
I’m estimating that starting Module 4 now in August, and having a two-week sprint per module, this program will take me to the end of 2020.
I’ll blog about my progress as the second-half of the year progresses. In a sense this being the first semester of the senior year. With a second semester being a backend engineering-focused program which I need to plan for in the first-half of 2021.
