Foundations Reflection

28 September 2023

  1. What are three new things you have learnt about yourself and your ego due to the core learning?

    2. The Core learning has allowed me to explore my new priorities in life (after being sick) which solidifies my decision to leave medicine (even though I still feel bittersweet about it). It's also taught me my emotional intelligence is poor if I can't improve my ability to self-regulate (which is a hit to my ego). My third thing it's taught me about is the growth mindset, and things I should change to be more positive about failing.

  2. What are the role of values, empathy, and self-awareness in learning and programming?

    3. Programming can be incredibly frustrating. Amazingly so. To overcome this, you do need to be kind to yourself, forgive yourself for 'silly mistakes', and understand when your body/mind has reached its limits. This is the same with learning anything new. It's important to have the goal of improving and getting better, not to just be talented and make no mistakes.

  3. What has surprised you the most about the core learning?

    4. That you can make it easy or hard for yourself, depending on how deeply you think about things. I'm also surprised that there is some new core concept to learn every week.

  4. What were the most challenging aspects of the core learning?

    5. I definitely found the identity and values module super hard. I think I thought about it way too deeply, and felt concerned I would be judged by complete strangers. Now, I just assume zero people are reading these blogs and it helps me to write better.

  5. Why do you think we, a programming school, are spending so much time focusing on core learning in a web development Bootcamp course?

    6. Core learning is important to make well-rounded programmers. It is something you have noticed in industry, and that is why you are including it as part of our programme. Most programmers work with teams of people, therefore an ability to work well as part of a team (by having a good background in these core concepts) is a great asset.

  6. Does the time you spent studying core learning here feel like a waste of time? Should you have just used that time to practise programming instead? Justify your answer.

    7. Core learning has (at times) been more frustrating to work through than programming. I feel that maybe there could be less of the Core content? However, especially for people who have never seen these concepts before, it can give people some life epiphanies. I feel like I have seen most of these things before, but never really made much use of it, it has been good for me to think more deeply about my life and what could be better.