A few folks have gotten jobs. I sorta shot myself in the foot by saying that I wanted a job in a certain geographic area, and I missed out on some opportunities. I'm not super pressed to get a job, though, so I'm good to wait for the right opportunity. I also have a soft job lead with one of my college buds in Los Angeles still, so that will do me fine if that comes through (remote job...I wouldn't have to move to LA).

It's been pretty laid back here the past couple of weeks. The instructors made the final project an easier one (singe page application -- Angular and Web API) because typically the most job interviews will occur at the end, and they didn't want to have an intense project going on during that time. Apparently it happened in past sessions and they wanted to prevent that.

Also, another new class session started a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of the staff focus has been on them. Understandably so, from their standpoint, because they want the experience to be the best possible for them to minimize the dropouts. Our class had four dropouts...two older gals got too far behind, one guy got a job in his previous industry, and one guy had a family hardship.

I am super pumped about programming in general. I dream about code at night, literally. I am getting ideas all over the place, and I can see ways things can be improved. I think it would be possible to make a phone app for the boards, for example. It would basically be an app with a web browser object, and then make a browser extension that would reformat the page to be more phone-friendly.

I'm also going through C++ tutorials right now because I am interested in desktop apps and games, which is not the focus of this course at all. But I figure if I can develop a few simple things and get some code on github, I could market myself for those types of jobs as well. I learned basic C++ in college, so it's not much of a leap.

It's a really exciting time. I will update as job prospect stuff develops.

edit - I made a Twitch chat bot a couple of weeks ago for fun. I followed a tutorial on YouTube (search "Hardly Difficult Twitch bot") and then added some command functionality. I then made it into a Windows form project so it has a GUI. It keeps track of user time in chat and gives XP and level ups. http://i.imgur.com/xbcM3lj.png
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