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Beyond Coding Bootcamp, Part 3 – Learning to Think Like a Programmer

Learning programming is more than picking up a language or two. You also need language concepts, mathematical proofs, and a bunch of good practices.

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Beyond Coding Bootcamp, Part 2 – Understanding Algorithms

If you're going to be a software developer, you need to understand algorithms. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to get what you need without college.

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Beyond Coding Bootcamp, Part 1 – A Roadmap for Learning Software Development without College

Coding bootcamps are great. But to really learn software development, you need some computer science basics. Fortunately, you can find them online.

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How to Present Your Portfolio at a Software Design Job Interview

This is your time to present who you are as a designer and what you do best. Control the room, focus on quality over quantity, and sweat the details.

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Three Habits That Will Slowly Make You a Better Developer

Experience is a great teacher—but only if we remember what we learn. These day-to-day habits will keep you learning and growing in little ways that really add up.

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Five Tips for Sharing a Project Retrospective with Your Whole Company

If your recent project taught you a lot, consider giving a company-wide project retrospective. Here are a few things to consider as you plan and present your findings.

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How to Mentor at a Student Hackathon & Why You Should Give it a Try

Mentoring at hackathons can also help you with a low-pressure environment to practice some of your skills, especially around debugging, brainstorming, mentoring (duh), and interact

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Your Dev Project Is a Classroom; Be Intentional about Learning

Learning during projects is usually incidental, a happy accident—but that's a huge wasted opportunity. By being intentional, you'll be surprised what you can learn every day.

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It Turns Out I Don’t Actually Know Everything – and I Never Will

No living human understands our computers from the top to the bottom. No one. There’s even much too much in the stack—across silicon and packet routing and web servers and HTML and

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Wizard Developer Skills: Conjuring Joy From Pain

My teammate has a particular talent for taking the most irritating, painful tasks and turning them into fun and interesting problems to solve. I've been cultivating this skill, and

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The Pros & Cons of 5 Different Development Career Paths

Your career can be a tool to help get you what you want from life. And each kind of development career path (startup, corporate, academic, freelance, or consultancy) will help you

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Three Ways to Build Up New Teammates as a Technical Mentor

The best way to help someone come up to speed in skills and methodologies is to work directly with them, side-by-side. Pair programming is the perfect chance to nudge people into g

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