Learning Plan (Sprint 2)

What is your long term goal or career pathway?

At the moment, I just want to complete this course and find a job in this field and build on my skills till I'm confident enough to step up and ask for more responsibilities at my job. Especially, since this is my first time learning about coding and web development; it'll definitely take some time to get used to it. But 100% I'm wanting to progress and manage projects one day.

A description of your strengths and limitations when it comes to learning?

My strenghts when it comes to learning is that I'm confident enough to work in a team and ask for help and cooperate with others. I know what it means to be responsible and have integrity towards any of my assignments. I do have decent social intelligence which can help me to be a good team player. All these skills will help me with my learning.
My limitations are self regulation and impatience. If I'm working alone, that's when my limitations come into play and I tend to get frustrated easily and overthink. But if I'm working in a team, I'll be able to have more patience and regulate my anger better.

What skills (non-technical/human skills) would you like to see developed in yourself while at Dev Academy?

I would like to develop time management skills especially when it comes to balancing my personal life and my learning. Right now, I'm struggling to find time to focus on my learning but if it wasn't for my family emergency, I'm sure I'd be able to give more of my time to do course work.

A commitment to how you will manage your workload in this programme

Overall, I know I can manage myself well to work productively and safely with other learners, facilitators and industry/community representatives. I'm a good team player and listener. When it comes to team assignments or even tasks at work, I'm always putting in my 100% to get the job done.
If things start building up and starts getting to me; I just try my best to do what I can. I have also let one of my facilitators know what's happening with me and see if they're able to help me out. I've been updating my facilitators regarding my family situation and so far they've been very understanding and looks like all I can do is carry on and do my best. If I do have any questions about my learning, I do ask for help; so no issue there in regards to asking for help.

A commitment as to how and where you will seek help in a timely way?

If anything, I can always ask my facilitators for help, which I've been doing so far using the discord channel. At the moment, I haven't asked anything on the group discord channel because I know for sure I'm so behind on my sprints and everyone else are way ahead of me; so it doesn't feel right to ask for help on the group channel. I've always been more comfortable asking my tutors for help unless I'm working on a team assignment, then I'll ask my team members for help.

A description of what you expect from the Facilitation team

All, I want from the facilitation team is to continue having understanding and patience with me. Dev Academy has been great and I don't feel nervous to ask for any help. They've been very nice and supportive so far. I'm still getting used to this flipped learning style, so I'm a bit slow with my learning as well as having other commitments. It's also my first time coding, so it'll take me more time to learn and understand the concepts of it

Any scheduling information such as block-out times when you are committed to other things?

Yes, for almost three weeks and counting ever since this course started; I've had family emergency which took out a lot of my time from my learning. I'm still trying to catch up with my learning and I'm still trying to find time to focus on my course work. I'm struggling at the moment to find balance between my learning and personal life. If it wasn't for family emergency, I would of had a lot more time to stay on track with the others.

Bootcamp Reflections (Sprint 5)

What is your long term goal and/or career pathway?

Just like how I mentioned in sprint 2 learning plan about my long term goal; this hasn't changed. I definitely know programming will take me a bit longer to get used to and learn. So, I just want to complete this course and find a job in this field and keep building on my skills from there till I'm confident enough to take on higher roles and keep climbing. It won't be easy for a new comer like me to get there yet with this new language program and having a massive shift in career path all of a sudden. But hopefully my craving for a stable job keeps motivating me to put in effort and complete this bootcamp.

What do you think your biggest strengths and limitations will be in Bootcamp?

I think my biggest strengths would be getting along with the people. I've worked in a lot of group settings before as/in a team especially at my previous jobs. I know I can be confident enough to speak up and cooperate with others. My limitations would be my impatience and not knowing how to regulate my anger and I stated this in in my sprint 2 learning plan but mainly if I'm working by myself then I tend to be like this. However, I've started journaling and have been more mindful about myself, so I am slowly learning and practising self regulation. In a group setting, I know how important it is to have patience and to not lose my temper easily. I try to be very professional when working with others. Overall, Human Skills has helped me identify that I don't have a problem working with others, but has helped me identify that I haven't been taking care of myself and have not been kind to myself. But I am slowly getting there.

What do you think your biggest non-technical challenge at Bootcamp will be?

The only thing I can think of is probably staying on top of my materials. Doing foundations and online learning from the comforts of my home had made it a bit difficult for me to just get up, open my laptop and get started on the sprints. Just a teeny bit lack of motivation but mainly a lot of hestitation and a lot of fear; just thinking about opening the materials and getting stuck immediately and then feeling dumb and overwhelmed. I struggled with this a lot. As for bootcamp, hopefully I don't experience this feeling of fear a lot when others are involved. Nothing disappoints me more than letting team mates down and them doing all the work. I'm not all about that. I'll struggle with tech side 100% but to work together and finish projects; I'll do my hardest to put in the efforts.

What non-technical skills - human skills - would you like to see developed in yourself while at Dev Academy?

Develop more self-awareness and reflective skills. To be much nicer to myself. To not always put others above my own needs; this is where I had neglected myself a lot in the past. To actually take care of myself and to actually find a hobby. Find ways to soothe and calm myself.

What are your expectations from the Bootcamp team?

Support from bootcamp team looks like patience. And I think so far I need this a lot from my peers and facilitators for someone who doesn't fully understand programming yet. And also maybe a physical collabrative space; I'm more comfortable talking face to face and solving problems like that till I can be more comfortable working online once I have a bit more knowledge about programming. I feel like I'm a bit old schooled and this is how I did all my learning in the past so will take time to get into this new habit of using my screens more to collaborate with other students.

What are your expectations of yourself on Bootcamp

I expect myself to have more discipline. If I make any mistakes, rather than making myself feel bad about it, I should turn it into something positive like taking it as a lesson and fix it with a smile not a heavy heart. Keep telling myself that I'm still learning and should be proud of myself for taking this huge step to improve my life, my myself and to want a stable job.