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code-for-a-living January 11, 2020

Hello World: Want to be a developer? Learn how to learn

Over the past five years, I’ve had the opportunity to teach coding to veterans who have varying degrees of education and experience. As such, newbies from all walks of life trying to get their eureka moment would always ask me, “How do I learn how to code?” The first hurdle to learning how to code…

Jerome Hardaway Web Developer

January 9, 2020

[Humor] So You Wanted to be a Product Manager

You think you wanted to be a product manager? Maybe you should think again about your choices there, Stevie Jobs.

Scott C Reynolds

code-for-a-living January 8, 2020

Tapping into the coding power of migrants and refugees in Mexico

Mexico and Latin America’s tech sector is growing rapidly, and the current market is demanding more experienced talent. HolaCode, founded two years ago, is focused on educating new coders in this region, and then supporting them through the early stages of their career.

Marcela Torres

stackoverflowknows January 3, 2020

This Week #StackOverflowKnows Parties With Introverts, Perfect Cookie Ratio, and Harmless !-Habits

Even over the holidays Stack Overflow and the Exchange sites are buzzing with some great questions and answers. In this edition, you can stick to your new year’s resolutions but still think about the perfect cookie, learn how to seat introverts at parties, and explain your last defeat at chess mathematically. Can I make leading…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

code-for-a-living January 2, 2020

This veteran started a code bootcamp for people who went to bootcamp

In 2014, Hardaway started Vets Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching US military veterans how to code within the JavaScript ecosystem: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, CLI, node.js, webpack, React, Gatsby, and GraphQL. To date, 250 veterans have graduated from the program. This cohort has gone on to find jobs in the industry across 37 states in the US. It’s 100% free to the veterans admitted into the program, 100% remote run, and 100% supported by donations.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living December 26, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in The World of Seven Billion Humans

This is part 3 of an ongoing series detailing my journey from total noob to hobbyist coder. I share my thoughts as I learn the basics of programming. You can find the rest of the series here. To help get me into the programming mindset, or maybe to cleverly sabotage my work ethic, a colleague recently…

Ben Popper Director of Content

December 23, 2019

A holiday carol for coders

A holiday tale to warm a coder's heart and remind ourselves what is valuable this season.

Scott C Reynolds

stackoverflowknows December 20, 2019

This Week #StackOverflowKnows Magic Constants, Using the Force, and Paper Maps

Once again, it’s time for our bi-weekly roundup of questions that caught our eyes. But we’re not the only eyes out there. So give attention to a great question and/or answer by tweeting it with the tag #StackOverflowKnows and we’ll consider them for future installments of this series. Where do “magic” hashing constants like 0x9e3779b9…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living December 19, 2019

What senior developers can learn from beginners

Over the last couple years, I’ve had the luxury of working with and mentoring quite a few beginners. While I’ve obviously witnessed my fair share of programming no-no’s, things are not as black and white as they may seem. There’s a handful of patterns and behaviors I’ve seen consistently throughout beginners. And while some of…

Ryland Goldstein Product Guy