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code-for-a-living September 18, 2021

Level Up: Introduction to TypeScript

In this one-off Level Up session, we’re exploring TypeScript, a popular programming language used for web development. Josh Goldberg, a Staff Frontend Developer at Codecademy, walks us through the basics of TypeScript. We discuss its relationship to JavaScript, how TypeScript is used in real production environments (like Codecademy itself!), how to get involved in the…

Alex Kuntz

code-for-a-living September 13, 2021

Why your data needs a QA process

At this point, most software engineers see the value of testing their software regularly. But are you testing your data engineering as well?

Corissa E Haury

code-for-a-living September 8, 2021

Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)

Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.

Greg Leffler

code-for-a-living September 6, 2021

Scaling front end design with a design system

If you're building the same UI components over and over, you might need a design system.

Mihir Patel

code-for-a-living September 4, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4

In the fourth and final lesson of the series, we’ll learn how to use SwiftUI navigation to present different views to the user. We’ll build a welcome screen with instructions for the user as well as a final screen with their results to the quiz. A user will also have the option to re-take the…

Ben Stone

stackoverflowknows September 2, 2021

Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years

The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.

David Gibson and Ben Popper

August 30, 2021

The full data set for the 2021 Developer Survey now available!

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Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living August 28, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 3

In the third lesson of the series, we’ll continue to incorporate the MVVM architecture and build a view model for our quiz app which mediates communication between the view and the model. Additionally, we’ll build a game model structure and add more questions and functionality for new questions to appear as the user advances through…

Ben Stone

code-for-a-living August 25, 2021

Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization

Here's three areas where data visualization can make your engineering life easier.

Ian Johnson

code-for-a-living August 23, 2021

You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.

The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living August 21, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 2

In the second lesson of the series, we’ll add state to our quiz app so that it can show users whether they answered correctly. We’ll also build out a model for our quiz questions, and add a settings tab. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the work we did in today’s session: What…

Ben Stone