ORIENTATION
ACCESSIBLE
IMPACTFUL
Accessible
More than 700 applications
nearly 200 graduated
JOBS
Your DevMountain Experience
Daily Schedule
9am: Toy Problem
9:30am: Review
10am: Lecture/Guided Practice
11:30am: Mini Project
12:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Project
Your DevMountain Experience
Weekly Items
- Mentor reviews
- Friday breakfast
- Optional activities (fun)
- Cohort activities (fun)
- Pair programming (intermittent)
Events
Your DevMountain Experience
What are you paying for?
Expert teachers
Excellent mentors
Modern, project-based, refined curriculum
24/7 hack space
Network + alumni
Your DevMountain Experience
What are you not paying for?
24/7 access to teachers, mentors
Job
A static skillset
A personalized, 1:1 experience
Your DevMountain Experience
You are not a customer, you are a chef
Let's talk about psychology
HARVARD VS Average
VS
HARVARD VS Average
VS
Top 30%
Top 30%
Big fish in Little Pond
"Relative Deprivation"
Important things you should expect
- You should expect to struggle
- You should expect to feel dumber than others
- You should expect to feel overwhelmed
We have 12 weeks to turn you into a web developer.
The DevMountain Environment
Cooking your brain since 2013
Dealing with adversity
- Give up
- Get depressed
- Blame others
- Work hard, stay positive
Students who work the hardest and stay positive often surpass their "more experienced" peers.
Do's
- Respect peers, students, mentors
- Go "all in"
- Have fun
- Build relationships
- Every single repo, mini project, toy problem
Don'ts
- Play music out loud (headphones)
- Miss class (email in case of emergency)
- Interview for jobs prior to end of class
- In-class relationships
- Drugs/alcohol
LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Tyler McGinnis
LEAD MENTOR
Jacob Turner
STUDENT SUCCESS
Krissy Weekly