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Day 105: The #100Devs tracker is ready! For anyone in the #catchupcrew, I present communitytaught.org/, a complete class and homework tracker that you can use across browsers and devices. 😊 #100DaysOfCode
For anyone who's currently contributing to Community Taught, I've changed the way the database connection works. It now just looks for a single complete connection string. You'll need to update your .env, see example.env for details.
Wow it has been so long since I last posted! After 10 months, I'm *finally* starting work on Community Taught again. There are a number of open issues/feature requests if there are any #100Devs out there who'd like to contribute. 😊
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Junior Frontend Developer (Remote Internship)
LOCATION: Remote
SCHEDULE: Part-time
STACK: HTML, CSS, JavaScript || React or Angular
glassdoor.com/job-listing/ju…
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I'll never forget the people that took a chance on me and believed in me when I didn't have the skills
If you're looking for your first coding job, that person is out there and they're looking for you
It's just a matter of time, everyone started off without experience
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Being exposed to more technologies doesn't necessarily make you a better developer
But being exposed to more problems always does
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Getting your first job is one thing, but keeping it is a whole other story.
Your first 3, 6 and 12 months of a new job are going to be crucial.
It's important to understand what your manager wants from you.
And more importantly how to ask for help when you need it.
Worked on the Twitter clone again - another day, another recursive component. This one was to show and add comments on the homepage - this isn't how the Twitter feed works but I don't intend to make a 1:1 copy.
Trying to get some React projects onto my portfolio, so I've recently been building a Twitter clone in Next.js. It's been surprisingly challenging! Getting comments to nest to an arbitrary level took some serious thought on DB design and a recursive component.
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Leon Noel is the creator of #100Devs, an entirely free and remote full-stack software engineering bootcamp on Twitch.
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This is pretty encouraging:
Despite all the layoffs, tech employment grew 3.2% in 2022.
Granted, this doesn't take into account the layoffs this year, but certain skillsets like SWEs are still poised for growth.
My take: keep your head up, you can still land that gig!
#100Devs communitytaught.org is currently down😧- there seems to be a stability issue with the MongoDB cluster, unfortunately I can't do much but wait for it be resolved.
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I spent almost 15 years painting cars before learning SQL and becoming a data engineer. I now manage a team of data engineers.
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During a performance review I had 10 years ago, my manager at the time told me:
"Not everyone is cut out for this. Have you considered other careers?"
I was very new and impressionable
But I only wanted to prove him wrong
And 10 years later, I'm still a software developer