So… here is my first step into the blogging world. (<– I must have rewritten that sentence a thousand times over the years… I like to think of it as the thing that prevented me from blogging so far ) )
So here comes my first post, with an introduction, and info about why I am happy, and of course about Dev Bootcamp
(Warning : Long post ahead… but don’t worry, I’ve put videos to help you cope with the long text)
I’ve always been the kind of guy who speaks a lot, I’ve also been said that I would make a good blogger thanks to that, but that is my very first post in my very first blog.
As such, I feel obliged to start with :
A small introduction about me
So, hi! My name is Quentin and I am a 27 years old french dude who has… done stuff, here and there.
So far, in my life, I can say that:
- I travelled to 2 different continents (3 in 2 months, take that frequent flyer program!).
- As a job, I counted stock, sold clothes to climb the K2, built skateboards, taught kids what France was like.
- I studied … Scientific stuff, then economics, then English/Spanish and their applications (in Law, Economics, Culture), and then Korean, most of them only for one year or two but still…
- I built some webpages (old-school style, back in the days), created a geeky Roleplaying Club in high school, created and managed a podcast about Korea (www.mirae.fr … all in french), and more recently made an app (Craft me a pass! on Android)
Right now, I’m working as a Technical Support Manager (Think The IT Crowd’s Roy with a french accent) in a company that works for Digital Cinemas all over the world.
I also played hundreds of games because I just… love challenges. And when I feel like I don’t have enough of it, I just manage to create a group, a guild, a clan, anything, and then deal with the other challenges that come with it.
All in all, I like building and managing projects, people, … anything. One other thing I like is humor. I joke a lot, and like to laugh. Always have and always will )
Also, a small trait that seems to surprise most of the people : I give the truth. All of it.
I once told my fiancee how getting with her does not make others less charming, it just makes her the one I chose and I like to stick to my choices. Long story short, it didn’t go very well. But she’s my fiancee now so I think can safely say that it ended up OK.
I also told the listeners of my podcast that I was sorry I made a joke about Korean people… But if they were that “stuck-up” they could just stop listening right now since I’ld make more about any group of people, being in it or not. I never meant any harm in it, and those who don’t understand 2nd degree probably don’t like what I’m saying anyway so… Why keep on listening then?
But then I tell the people what I like and don’t like about them (Not like a douche, telling the truth does not necessarily mean being hurtful). If I don’t want to go to your party, I’ll explain, I will not be suddenly sick, my grandmother won’t die every other weekend, nope, I will bluntly tell you what my reasons are and then we can talk about it if you want.
Finally (that “short” introduction may be one of the biggest thing I ever wrote already…), I will say that I live to help. I don’t have anything to compensate (that I know of…) I am not a bad person that wants redemption or something, I just think that I am very glad to have a roof over my head, a decent body, a decent mind (decent genes all in all, thanks mom and dad), I grew up with my loving parents, I have an awesome house, I also got some skills (nothing fancy or rare, just stuff I know how to do) and I don’t care about having that if I can’t make that useful for those who would have less of any of that.
This kind of stuff is what I live for, my goal in life, and I don’t intend to change it at any time.
Now, that may sound like bragging, trying to look good in some way but first, I honestly don’t care what you think about that, I’m happy with myself, just trying to inform, and second remember what I wrote just a little above : * I give the truth. All of it. *
Why I am happy~
Many reasons about it. This title is mostly because of this :
(Kudos for the best camera(wo)man in the world, I’m marrying her! hehe)
Now the idea about joining the Bootcamp, as opposed to what people seem to think, is that they do not teach you stuff about computers in general. They don’t just teach you one language. They also don’t make it so you can fit in that small case that will allow you to land a job at Twitter or Google.
What Dev Bootcamp teaches you is not how to develop programs, but how to be a good developper.
They take Ruby and Rails (if you don’t know about it, just wait,I’ll post more about it later) as an example to teach you how to organize your code, your project, how to program with others, how to lead and be led, how to manage your time, your energy, the way employers see you, how to apply for a new job, etc…
They teach you how to adapt to new people, new challenges, new hypothesis everyday.
And that, guys… let me rewrite that : And THAT guys is what being a good developper is about.
Think about it this way : What do you think the first developers are doing now (the ones still working, of course). Did they stick to the main language they used? Does that mean that now that we have tablets, phones, etc, we need to train new guys because the developers for the former platforms can’t switch?
No. Good developers adapt. They changed teams. They changed the languages they used, the machines, the “targets” (80’s computers users are not the same as nowadays’), they changed everything. And the best at adapting are now the ones doing the best .
Dev Bootcamp aims at teaching you exactly that. They select those that seems to fit the mold of the untrained soul they have, and then they teach you how to grow from that, in the best direction possible, and then end up becoming a good or even a great developer.
That is what I signed up for.
Now, I will tell you more about the prep work that already started, about the organization, and all that, but this post is long enough already so I’ll stop here for now.
I hope you did not feel like you were wasting your time too much, and I hope you’ll enjoy the next ones too.
See ya very soon~