The guys return to finish their discussion of the different ways you can engage in learning about programming. This time they delve into online courses, bootcamp and other concentrated learning environments, and the importance of building stuff on your own and with others to demonstrate mastery of concepts.

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Chapters

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:21 - Online courses
• 07:14 - The illusion of mastery
• 12:36 - Bootcamp vs. online course
• 14:06 - Exercise sites
• 16:37 - Bootcamps
• 30:37 - Meetups and conferences
• 39:00 - Building your own stuff
• 43:33 - Building with others
• 51:06 - Outro

Links

• Code Wars
• Project Euler
• Exercism