Hi P1xt,
It’s nice to see a legend of the forum in this thread.
The Cohorts, for the most part, are a mix of skill levels.
What I see as a huge benefit to joining a cohort is that it will expose you to people who are serious about learning. If you can become friends with one such person and have them challenge you, that’s when you will see quick growth in your web-development skills.
So if you still have to learn the data-vis and full stack projects, I can guarantee you there are people in the cohorts that would be willing to learn with you.
@P1xt Thank you for commenting. I think your description is on point!
The cohorts are kind of like strapping on an FCC jet-pack for campers on their coding journey. It’s a bit of a boost for those that want to contribute (at any level). It’s also a good place for people who are maybe a bit too shy to message on gitter or make a post in the forum (altho our members are very active on the forum too (hey @Azdrian@Diego_Perez )). Actually, before the cohorts I wasn’t really involved in the forum, but now that I know people I’m a bit more confident and becoming more active.
The question that we use to make any decisions about the cohorts may help understand a little more of what we’re about: “Does this help empower people and/or give them an opportunity they wouldn’t normally have?”
That surprises me, you see its meetups and things that terrify me, I’m quite happy to hide behind my screen in my own introverted mess on the forum tho. It seems back to front to me!
I had to google slack just. I knew it was live group cha… and that was as far as I ever thought about it
I get chingu now. It’s mostly chat, regulars and see what happens/arrange further. Kind of like a seedy 90’s dating app for geeks to pop their Pair Programming cherries. I think I could ease into that haha. Not sure I’m up to the red panda group standard yet though. I feel pretty slow at most lines of code. Still, my is interest definitely piqued.
@tropicalchancer I am very interested in this! I am currently working on the second project (pomodoro clock) of the advanced front-end certificate. Would I need to have some knowledge in backend if I want to join the red-panda cohort, or is it also good for people who are looking to get into full-stack? Or do you think the fox cohort would be more appropriate for my current level?
No, definitely don’t need knowledge of the back-end to join the Red-Pandas. I’m going to be organizing all those who want to join into the most optimal groupings so no worries about that Just shoot me an email if you already haven’t and we’ll get you all set up!