Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Pathway and Module 1 Summary

You know what really sets Tech Elevator apart from their competition? Their Pathway program, which equips students with the necessary skills to find their first coding jobs. 

At first, I was skeptical because I didn't find the job hunting program in college to be very helpful. I went to a few career fairs, but half of the time the person I was speaking to at the booth had nothing to do with the hiring process. 

The Pathway Program is nothing like that. It is crazy the amount of work Ben and Vinny have put into it. Each week we have panels with TE alumni on a variety of topics. They give some fantastic advice and insight on everything from different career roles to dealing with imposter syndrome. 

We have worked on elevator pitches and resumes. Before this, I actually had a pretty good resume, but now I have a great one! This week we are optimizing our LinkedIn profiles. Prior to TE, I never used LinkedIn and thought it was kind of weird. Now, I'm able to see how useful it is and know the tips and tricks to get my profile to appear more in search results. 

Eventually, the cohort will go through an employer matchmaking process, which is essentially speed-dating, but with job interviews. 

Since I'm a bit behind on weekly summaries, I'm just going to list the things we covered this module. Hopefully, I'll get back into the swing of things after our first capstone, which is due Monday! 

Module 1 consisted of:

  • Intro to Tools
  • Variables and data types
  • Expressions
  • Loops and arrays
  • Command Line Programs
  • Objects and Strings
  • Collections
  • Classes
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • Abstract classes
  • Unit testing
  • Test Driven Development
  • File I/O Reading in/Writing out



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