Steve (I'm a web developer) Mortensen!

 WARNING: I brag about my awesome husband a lot in this post. 

For the last three months Steve has been going to a web development boot camp. This was from 6-9 (let's be honest 9:30 or 9:45) Tuesday-Thursday and 9-2ish every Saturday, plus a couple hours of homework each week. Plus, his regular full time job. He has been a crazy busy guy! Even though I missed him a lot during the last three months, I am so proud of his accomplishments! 

Thursday was "Demo Night" for DevMountain which really just means a celebration and a chance to show off what they've learned with a final personal project. Steve was chosen to present his project on the big screen to the whole audience. OH YEAH! I was so nervous and excited for him that I didn't even think to take pictures during the quick presentation, but he did a great job showing his project, explaining the challenges, and discussing the successes. Of course, he made the audience laugh. His project is a video chat website using Polymer and WebRTC. The goal is to be able to tutor speakers of other languages through the website. I don't totally understand everything he has learned but I know he has learned JavaScript and the basics of other languages. 

 Every single person I met at Demo Night had great things to say about Steve. "Your husband is a rockstar!" "He's the best in our class!" "Steve always knew the right answer!" This was a little embarrassing for him but he was definitely beaming on the inside. The thing I am most excited about is that he loves development. He'll wake up in the morning and tell me about the dream he just had about programming...weird! Steve has found something that he is good at and loves which makes me so happy! There is still a lot to learn about programming but DevMountain was such a great beginning to this journey. His goal now is to get a development job so he can keep learning and practicing. He currently has 2 job offers and a couple potential offers. In the next couple days we will decide which job is the best fit for him.

So proud!