Brainstorm session 17 May 2017

Wael

Graduated in december 2016
Heaviest training ever, spent every day working. Met lot's of new people. Didn't feel ready / confident to apply to job afterwards.
Started working March 6 2017 at Power Peers (Nuon). Learning a lot.
Front End Javascript JavaScript, jQuery, React
Found Node.js most interesting part
Tooling missing: CSS preprocessor + Gulp
Code patterns: learning to DNRY
Agile integrated
Debugging

Jack

Started July 2016, finished March 2017
Heard about HYF from Facebook
Enthusiastic at first, but really got stuck during JavaScript (9 weeks). Mainly because there were too many different teachers and not super clear what curriculum was
Started internship April 2017 ago at Bijenkorf at eCommerce team of 150 peeps
6 months is not enough, together with Dutch
Hackathons -> to learn code you should code
More Hackathons
Happy about alumni sessions
SoftSkills (Scrum)

Ali

Started June 2016, finished Feb 2017
Animation artist by origin
Now works for Fonk, mainly an Android company
Now doing mainly jQuery, translating designs to html/css + Backend stuff
Wants to do React
Not much educational backup from work
Good: structure, flexibility, tolerance, teachers Bad: curriculum not comprehensive enough. More packages (jQuery, react or angular).
More project based. e.g. social media stuff.
all guys spend 5-25 hours per week
not much value out of fellow students