ORIENTATION

ACCESSIBLE

IMPACTFUL

Your DevMountain Experience

Daily Schedule

9:00am:     Documentation Review

9:30am:     Stretch Problem - ObjC

10:00am:    Lecture/Guided Practice

12:30pm:    Lunch/Reteach

1:30pm:      Stretch Problem - Swift

2:00pm:     Project - Pair Programming

4:45pm:     Mid-day Check-In

5:00pm:     Project

Your DevMountain Experience

Weekly Items

  • Guest teacher
  • Mentor reviews
  • Optional activities (fun)
  • Cohort activities (fun)
  • Friday breakfast

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

 

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 an iOS developer.

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.

Your DevMountain Experience

Stay Healthy

  • Drink lots of water
  • Eat healthy
  • Exercise regularly
  • Stand up and move around

Do's

  • Respect peers, students, mentors
  • Go "all in"
  • Have fun
  • Build relationships, not a competition
  • Work with your mentor
  • Follow the style guide
  • Every single repo, mini project, toy problem

Don'ts

  • Mess with the learning environment
  • Leave early
  • Miss class (email in case of emergency)
  • Play music out loud (headphones)
  • Interview for jobs prior to end of class
  • In-class relationships
  • Drugs/alcohol

Resources

Github
Slack
Trello

Queue

Working With Your Mentors

  • 20 minute rule
  • Trello subscribed stacks
  • Github Issues
  • Screenhero
  • Pair Programming
  • Code review
  • Mentor hours

Come Up With the Question

LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Caleb Hicks

LEAD MENTOR

Taylor Mott

STUDENT SUCCESS

Krissy Weekly

Curriculum Lead

Joshua Howland

Pair Programming

iOS Immersive Orientation

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