Christian Hamelin

Went from not knowing the difference between a 0 and a 1 to working as a full stack junior developer in 3 years. I now freelance using Wordpress or building custom depending on the client. I mentor at said bootcamp (Lighthouse Labs) and I have also mentored at another bootcamp (DecodeMTL) in another city. I love teaching, have great relatable experience for anyone new to this and wanting to make a career change!

Rails was my first splash in the water. I didn't know much about computers and I was thrown into the lions den. Rails can be a powerful prototyping tool and I find it useful in teaching some basic concepts. But some other things about it aren't as intuitive such as routing.

I taught myself React after leaving an Angular 1 job and we teach it at Lighthouse Labs from week 2 onwards. React is very intuitive and easy to learn once you wrap your head around jsx and the component life cycle. It's also a great tool for explaining how software engineers work to make developers' lives better ie in this case state management and less DOM manipulations. It is also a highly employable skill to learn and is only going to be more in demand. Great way to get started learning a new technology!