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Coding Bootcamps: What You Haven’t Thought of

Considering a coding bootcamp or already enrolled in one? Here are some things I wish I had considered or read before starting my bootcamp.

5 min readJan 20, 2020

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Students at a coding bootcamp

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JavaScript in Plain English

.setState() Not Working — Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy & Lodash

Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy & Lodash

4 min readSep 10, 2019

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The Startup

React .focus()

A simple explanation of .focus() use in React

3 min readSep 8, 2019

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do |ruby| right — Useful Callbacks and ActiveRecord Options

Ruby on Rails is well-documented, but that means there’s a lot to go through. Of course you read all documentation for your languages, but…

4 min readSep 1, 2019

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Callbacks — check! belongs_to options and mean girl memes left to do

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The Startup

Starting PHP + Database: Quick Configuration

Quickly get started with the necessary configuration to learn PHP connected to a database

4 min readAug 25, 2019

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PHP + MySQL

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The Startup

“Hello, Class” to “Hello, World!”

What teaching taught me about coding

5 min readAug 18, 2019

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People speaking computer languages together

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The Startup

DIY Transitions: Entry & Exit in React

CSS & React.js transitions for adding and deleting elements without a library

4 min readAug 10, 2019

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CSS Transitions

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The Startup

Reducing Time Complexity

& More Your Coding Bootcamp Missed

4 min readAug 4, 2019

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Reducing Time Complexity

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Early Days of Coding Greats

Their First Lines of Code

5 min readJul 28, 2019

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A baby on a computer

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The Startup

How to Solve Any Code Challenge or Algorithm

A step by step guide

7 min readJul 19, 2019

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How to Solve Any Code Challenge or Algorithm

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James Dorr

James Dorr

Full Stack Web Developer, former English as a foreign language teacher and volleyball coach. All views and opinions are my own.

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