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foolm0r0n posted...

My friend was doing web dev but recently quit to teach at a high school. I feel like your path is more common tho.

I'm a web dev and I'm trying to do some part time teaching at a dev bootcamp. That seems like the positives of teaching but without the nonsense.

I would feel like it's not quite as comparable, but my instructor and career counselor from my bootcamp were really supportive of me and interested in how I was doing after, so I guess I just don't have the frame of reference!

davidponte posted...

I just finally got my first actual high school teaching job in September in Ontario, Canada (a great place to be a teacher), and I absolutely do not envy what American teachers have to go through in terms of stress, curriculum content being cut, and shitty wages.

I hope it's going well!

skullbone posted...

How did you actually get into web dev?

I did one of those coding bootcamps which was okay but I didn't really feel prepared to actually get a job once it was over. I found it hard to stay motivated to keep doing projects and coding after the class ends.

Sometimes I think about trying to get into it again but I'd basically be starting over from scratch since it's been 4 or 5 years.

I took a few years of comp sci back in highschool some 12+ years ago and had an affinity for it. Then I did a bootcamp and got a job out of that. Thing is, the basics of programming are what is important - individual languages, specific frameworks, are all good to toss on your resum, but for a first-job coder, there are plenty of job opportunities available. You just have to be able to describe some basic concepts, do follow-up calls, and chug away.

LunaticCritic posted...

Why web development?

Had a background of enjoying programming, and I had a friend who did the same thing I did. He was a band director, took a bootcamp, got a good job right away. He recommended me the place I went to and all was good from there. Helped that I was easily the best student in my bootcamp which meant the school put good effort into helping me get placed.

XIII_rocks posted...

How often were your lessons observed (for appraisal purposes) and was it always done professionally?

When doing a long-term sub position - literally never. Principal paid zero attention to a long-term sub who was designing curriculum for a new class as I taught it.
In the high school, twice a year. Was done professionally but he didn't understand music or why putting freshmen with no experience in the same class with my advanced percussionists was a bad idea.
When doing grade school music - never.

LiquidOshawott posted...

What tools do you use, and what framework do you like and why?

We code mainly in typescript/javascript, and use React. Also some Coldfusion but just because that's what the old code is written in. React has a lot of extra stuff I feel like I have to do to code in it, but now that I'm used to it, it flows easy enough and I can use it fine. Beforehand, I had really only worked in Java and a little bit of other languages (bootcamp project used Angular), so I'd say everything I'm using now is what I like because I've done it the most (except fuck Coldfusion).

Not_an_Owl posted...

What are the best and worst excuses a student ever gave you for why they didn't practice?

There's no good excuse that isn't like, something serious.
For bad? When they say they did practice but are clearly lying. When they say that they have do homework, despite having an hour after school but between after-school band to work on it. Stuff like that. Just poor time management.