Launch School gave me the tools to do what I thought would have been impossible a few years ago: land a mid-level software engineering role with a six-figure salary, while having no prior experience in a tech-related field or even a related degree. Capstone put me in a position to start my career 3-5 years ahead of where I would have landed had I attended a traditional bootcamp, with a salary $50K+ higher.
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These are articles that current students are writing about while working through Launch School. Topics range from technical explanations to reflections on learning to mastery. Great results are obvious when the curriculum is rigorous enough, but if you really want to get an idea of what it feels like while on the journey to mastery, read these reflections.
Reflections on Launch School’s 3rd Smooth Start Cohort
Coding With Talon Voice
Short article about refactoring in Ruby.
#clone and #dup in Ruby
Can’t study? Teach.
On My Path to Mastery
Launch School Core Curriculum Review: The Slow Path Towards Mastery of Software Engineering
Introducing the Launch School Flatverse with Gather Town
109 Assessment: How to Conquer the Wall
How I take Launch School Assessments
My Approach to Learning during Launch School's Core Curriculum
Lessons Learned from a Launch School Retake
Deploying a databased Node.js app on Fly.io
From Problem to Code: Integrating Pseudocode into the PEDAC Process
Evolving Landscape for Software Career Transitioners: A Three-Year Review of Capstone Data
Getting stuck in programming? Here’s how I overcame it
Class inheritance vs. interface inheritance in Ruby
Method Access Control In Ruby
Launch School Capstone 2022 Salaries (so far)
Really? Slow is Fast?
Social Learning at Launch School
Speaking to the RB109d Interview.
What is Ruby, anyway? (Or: what did I just install?)
Mastering JavaScript: 5 Ways to Loop Through an Array
How can you study when life gets in the way
Overcoming the RB109 Live Interview:
Becoming a Better Learner With Launch School
Don’t Learn a Programming Language. Learn Software Engineering
When distractions hit you, Time Logs save the day
Reclaiming my Identity as a Learner
My time at Launch School (so far)
Multi-cluster at scale: why Timescale chose Linkerd for its service mesh framework
Launch School for Speedy Learners
Time Management During Launch School Assessments
Binding in Ruby
A Journey to Understand Variable Scope
Using JIT Learning to Build an App During Launch School’s Capstone Prep
From Student to Master: Launch School’s approach to “self-taught” programming.
Speaking in Ruby
How to FLY.`io`
The First Step: Setting Out on the Road to Mastery
Adjusting Learning Styles: The Transition from Launch School’s Core to Capstone
Our New 2021 Salaries Page
My Ruby Chess Journey is a series of articles about how I wrote a command line chess game in pure Ruby.
JavaScript Primer: Unlocking Scope
learning how to learn. The very beginning on the path to Software Engineer
Why I Ran Out of Time Taking Launch School's RB109 Written Assessment (and what I'm changing so it doesn't happen again)
How to prepare for Written Assessments and Manage your time while taking them!
The WSL2 guide to Ruby and JS development (featuring Win 10 & 11, Ubuntu, VSCode, Git, PostgreSQL…)
Basic JavaScript Navigation
How Web Apps Remember Who You Are
TCP, TLS and Handshakes
Podcast S4E6: Programming Essentials Workshops Q&A and Catchup with Kelvin
Programming Essentials Workshops (Week 3)!
Programming Essentials Workshops (Week 2)!
Introducing our Programming Essentials Workshops — now free!
Delegation Vs Delegator in Ruby: Part 1
Ruby to JavaScript: A Short JS Guide for Rubyists starting JS210
Podcast S4E5: Transforming at Launch School
Time Out: Part 2
Time Out: Part 1
JS230 Side Project: Website Redesign
Launch School RB109 Assessment — Not Your Average College Exam
PEDAC, the Hero’s Journey, and Wishing upon an Algorithm
3 Stages to the RB109 Interview | Isolating skills to reduce frustration
Podcast S4E4: Capstone Salaries, Recession & The Younger Students of Launch School
What is the Internet
RB109: My PEDAC Process | Build little magic boxes with me.
Developing a (simple) PostgreSQL rapid iteration workflow
What Century Is After Midnight?
Part-Time to Full-time Study
Of prototypes, prototypes, prototypes, and prototypes in Javascript.
Study Tips
Web App Components: How Servers, Frameworks, and Databases Make Development Easier
Making Sense of SQL: Part 1