Foundation Reflection

December 10,2021

What are three new things you have learnt about yourself and your ego as a result of the core learning?

1. Beleive yourself :
Everytime I got stuck (I got stuck every quesitons lol), I told my self that " This is not about how smart you are, it's just you have not understood YET! "

2. Do not hesitate for asking help:
It was as if it were something humiliating. I have always thought that being independent meant the capacity to solve all the problems on my own. I realized that a lot of peer did not hesitate ask for help on foundation channel and facilltators or peers would hep you immediately and I felt that I was not the only one struggling of coding.

3. Growth Mindset:
It would be similar to my above answer. So far, coding and understanding JavaScript is quite hard for me and I am worried about the bootcamp. However, if I do hard work, I will be able to understand and will be able to coding some day. I have not achived there yet but I just need more time to understand.

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

I beleive that it is important to have empathy with other members because we would work as a team.
In addition to this, self-awareness means knowing your values, personality, needs, habits, emotions, strengths, weaknesses, etc. With a sense of who you are and a vision of the person you want to become.
In learning and programming is not easy, therefore it would be better to know yourseld and if you know yourself better, you would be more productive and creative.

What has surprised you the most about the core learning?

I was surprised about "the power of yet". I watched the TED several times. It gives me motivation to keep coding and reminds me who I want to be and why I am studying now.

What were the most challenging aspects of the core learning?

The most challenging part was sprint-4 and sprint 5.

I struggled how to code, how to make it happen! Even I was coding in my dream lol

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

I believe that before becoming a programmer, it could be any job, but we need better "human skills" in our life. We will work with other people, you cannot live or work alone.

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.

It has been really useful to read on the topics in the core curriculum and then write up notes and publish blogs on research findings and share personal thoughts.
I found many intersting topics and it helped me a lot when I got stuck coding.