Notes from Emily

Episode 5:

  • 6 mins in: picking GHA because they were worried about being too intense
  • all female - safe space for IS
  • impostor syndrome
  • i feel it more outside of academic environment
  • overcoming IS is about having more data points
  • graphs, data structures, binary search
  • dog park app

Episode 16:

  • Junior phase was intense!
  • The pace of the course was so fast - no time to follow up and easy to slip
  • If everything matters, then nothing matters.
  • What does matter is the big picture and the process: getting better at concepts and debugging and designing, and not getting lost in the fine grained details.
  • Enjoyed: messing around with React Native
  • Dog Park app - maps, navigation
  • apprenticeship program at microsoft
  • tensorflow tech talk: senior yr bioinformatics in college
  • senior phase expects: not as stressful, just get an MVP
  • design is fiddly, you can do it while watching NCIS
  • time commitment: work life balance is always defined
  • professional ambitions:
  • more than anything else: GHA taught her there’s so much else to learn
  • don’t want to be part of a club that would have me as a member
  • #1 priority is to work with smart people
  • #2 reasonable work life balance
  • rover
  • how does she feel about bootcamp: hesitant about bootcamp - if you feel ready, go for it (esp tuition forward)
  • as happy as she has been for years
  • reacto - realistic?
  • necessary but not sufficient

Episode 28:

  • Firebase vs SQL? firebase
  • using redux to control the game flow vs the reactive paradigm
  • game loop algorithm piece
  • design aspect - nightmare?
  • demo - sound crowd, hard to judge what’s easy and difficult
  • career prep: definitive answers
  • focus on networking
  • systems and not goals: have a system for job search process
  • reacto too easy
  • overlapping rectangles
  • google doc: list of things for emily to learn (mvc, ror/django/ aws, os stuff)
  • bootcamp advice? just do it
  • how much more can we do if we worked like this 13 week phase