I'm a freshman student pursuing a Bachelor's in Information Technology, started to code a year ago, learning WebDev with The Odin Project, check out my Github(mathdebate09) for more of my progress. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

I often work with beginner Rails developers through The Odin Project and The Agency of Learning. One common pain point people may run into while learning is the dreaded "silent create action" failure. You've written your model, controller, and routes for a new resource, you've built the form view for creating this resource, but when you fill out the form and click the submit button, nothing happens. And the logs... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

Why haven't you tried some other affordable bootcamp alternatives - theodinproject.com - open web development bootcamp - fullstackopen.com - free self-paced bootcamp (lack of videos and images could be a hiccup) - webdevopen.com - they offer bootcamps with project building approach and improving your problem solving skills & live support at really affordable prices. Source: 9 months ago

The best resource by far is The Odin Project. It’s free too! Source: 11 months ago

For GitHub, I'll say just do basic things and most importantly learn about merging and creating branch checkout, etc. Try to work with a team where if you even push in main by mistake it won't be a blunder. Tutorials are good but I was at the same place once. Git was scary lol. There are some intermediate things like rebase etc. But you won't need most of it. Just go with theodinproject.com it'll be enough and try... Source: 11 months ago

Have you tried applying for scholarships outside of the UMN too? https://myscholly.com. Source: about 1 year ago

- Scholly was my number one scholarship search site. It is a PAID service, but you filled out your profile first and then it searched for scholarships based on your profile. We found quite a few interesting ones. Source: over 1 year ago

I have no experience with this, but the app linked here won shark tank. I'm not a paid spokesperson (unlike OP). Source: over 1 year ago

Also, don't discount scholarships. Like someone else said, you don't have to start college immediately after high school. You can take time off to work & save (nothing wrong with going at your own pace). If you do that, utilize myscholly.com here to apply to relevant scholarships. They're not all academically based! Apply for scholarships like it's your second job. Set a goal of like 3 a week for a year or... Source: over 1 year ago

Use this link to find additional scholarships: https://myscholly.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago