Taught React at Guvi's Zen Class Bootcamp

I spent 6 days at Guvi teaching React as part of their Zen class Bootcamp. I was teaching 30+ people. Most of them were students and we also had a few professionals who wanted to learn and level up their career.

The group had different levels of competency, fast, slow and medium learners. I was able to get almost all of them to build a simple application using React and in the process taught all the fundamentals.

I learnt that, as a coach, while teaching you need to do a face reading of the audience to figure out who understood the concept that is being discussed and who didn’t, as you speak. During the bootcamp I would ask individuals, “Hey pal, I’m not getting any signal from you, are you with me? Do you understand”.

In case if some look confused, you need to figure out why they are not able to follow, understand the problem and help them get to the next level. If they are in level 0, get them to level 1. If they are in 1, get them to level 2. Always make sure whatever you teach is received well at the other end by not just a few but all. Spend 1:1 time with the participants. Create a friendly environment for them to learn and have fun.

I really had a good time with those students. Loved their passion to learn new things. They kept on asking a lot of questions to learn more and more in the limited time they spent with me. I like that.

Kudos to Guvi folks for successfully kickstarting their first bootcamp, Zen class. 30+ people had signed up to be a part of it. These students are trained in full stack development, frontend, backend and more in one month. They are also asked to build small applications which will be reviewed by the team. That is amazing. They are doing what engineering colleges are supposed to do. I’m glad I was part of this programme.

If you are looking to hire freshers you can talk to Guvi and maybe hire few of the bootcamp participants.