I studied at Hack Reactor and actually found some great opportunities to go off the beaten path. It's true that we spent a good deal of class time on set lesso

I studied at Hack Reactor and actually found some great opportunities to go off the beaten path. It's true that we spent a good deal of class time on set lessons dealing with data structures, algorithms, databases, and various JavaScript frameworks. However, I also spent a week writing a domain specific programming language and an interpreter for it. It was a new challenge for me, but I wanted to a DSL for a personal project I was working on, so I did it! I know quite a few other students who dove into more theoretical, less applied projects. All in all, it was a great experience and really just whetted my appetite for further study. Since graduation, I've been taking Coursera classes on Scala, functional reactive programming, recommender systems and a variety of other topics. The hardest thing is no longer having time to learn as much as I want to now that I'm working full-time again.