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🐻 Welcome to Phase 3! 🦊

Posted on May 16th, 2022

During this phase, your daily post will be specific to your section, either front-end or back-end. Emojis in the title will mark the post as front end (🦊) or back end (🐻).

This first post is for everyone. There are two additional posts today, one each for front-end and for back-end. Scroll down to see those.

🕘 Phase 3: Schedule and Zoom changes

🚨 Zoom classroom link has changed

Please use this link from now on. It has been updated on Slack so you can still use that bookmark at the top of the team channel.

Team meetings are on Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday

Your team meets either during the morning or the afternoon. The rest of the day is lab time, during which you are expected to be online and working. Please let us know if you will be unavailable during work hours.

Please use lab time to read/watch/listen to the required readings/videos/podcasts on your daily classroom post and to work on your lab projects.

You are welcome to use our classroom Zoom link and/or the co-working Zoom during lab times.

  • 9:30-11:30 🦊 Front End team meeting
  • 2:00-4:00 🐻 Back End team meeting
  • All other times 9:30-5:30: Lab time

Wednesday is Lab Day, all day

  • 9:30-5:30 Lab time

Friday is Lab Day as usual

  • 9:30-10:30 Huddle (usually; check your calendar)
  • 11:00-12:00 Career Services (usually; check your calendar)
  • 1:00-5:30 Lab time

🗓️ Today’s Topics for both Front and Back End

  • Intro to Phase 3!
  • Note-taking as a developer
  • Setting goals for Phase 3
  • Intro to Advanced Back-End or Advanced Front-End

🤨 What does “Advanced” Even Mean?

⚠️ And even for experienced engineers, their experience is limited to certain areas, and completely dependent on having had opportunities to develop that experience.

What you don’t know will always outweigh what you do as long as you work in a field that moves as fast as tech does.

For an insightful take on being comfortable with what you don’t know, read this great blog post by one of the most well-respected and influential JavaScript developers out there right now: Dan Abramov, Things I Don’t Know

✅ TODO for Everyone Today

  • Reflect on where you are in this program. You’ve learned a lot and you have a lot left to learn. What are YOUR goals?
  • Complete this Goals Reflection exercise to re-energize for what’s ahead and focus on what you want to accomplish and post a tip from your CONTINUE list, or a request for advice for something that you’ve been struggling with to our team Slack channel.
  • Create a schedule that you can stick to for the times you will not be in class (see the time management resources below for some suggestions on managing your time effectively).
  • Learn Markdown -> see the resources section below.
  • Pick a note-taking application that will let you take notes while you read and work. It’s important that it can properly format code blocks. Here are some options (don’t overthink this choice – just pick something that you feel comfortable with).

🔖 Resources for Everyone

Time Management

Tech Pros Have Good Advice for You

Markdown & Taking Notes

Markdown is an easy-to-learn way to add formatting to plain text and code snippets. It is commonly used in READMEs on GitHub and can even used to generate HTML. It comes in handy a lot for developers, and you should know how to use it.

The .md extension indicates a Markdown file. The pages for this blog and every note in your team’s notes repo are formatted in Markdown – have a look on GitHub for examples!

Tags: phase-3 front-end back-end markdown time-management

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