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Advice and resources for success in the tech industry 📓

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Programming Resources

Introduction

This repository originally started off as a collection of resources and advice gathered from myself and others during my time at Lambda School (now called Bloomtech). While sending out LinkedIn invites to people I looked up to, I decided to start asking people what tips they had for a new student. What I found was an amazingly gifted group of individuals that opened their minds up to help me learn from their successes and mistakes.

I decided to compile all of this advice along with great tech resources (for job prep, interviews, and more) into a single place and pass it on to future learners and builders so that you can benefit from it as well. Every single person quoted in this document has given me their express permission to do so. Every single one of them remembers what it was like to be in your shoes, and they want to give back to the community that they’ve come from. I hope their advice helps you in your journey and enables you to reach your goals.

Getting Involved

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Project Management

Check out the Trello Board for this project to see what tasks have been completed so far and what still needs to be done

Author

Nathan Thomas - LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, Personal Site

Acknowledgments

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this over the years. Your advice helps others succeed.
Cover page photography by Lane Smith on Unsplash

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.vscode folder

Do we really need the .vscode settings folder? It seems like this is unneeded, but if you have a reason for it then this issue can at least provide a searchable reason.

[RFC] Is there a need for Hypertext Application Languages?

I've accumulated some resources which don't really fit anywhere, the best I could come up with to eschew the Addendum tag is Hypertext Application Languages (HALs):

JSON Schema - Home of the JSON working draft
JSON-LD (Linking Data) - A super-set of JSON that integrates connected data
Open Graph protocol - Adds additional metadata which enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph

node_modules

Is there really a reason to include node_modules/.yarn-integrity, it seems like unnecessary bloat.

[RFC] Should there be a spot or tag to include paid courses?

While most things for programming can be found for free in some form it's the unfortunate truth that the most concise, focused, and up to date information is sometimes behind a paywall.

Here's some examples for consideration:

TylerMcGinnis.com - bar none the best place to learn React/React Native beyond what Lambda School teaches.
TestingJavaScript.com - probably the best information I have seen about testing period and it focuses specifically on JavaScript.
Refactoring UI - One of the best books I've read on how to refactor mediocre UI/UX.

Less-focused Considerations:

egghead.io - General content focused on JavaScript and the surrounding ecosystem.
Frontend Masters - Specifically focused on the frontend ecosystem
PluralSight - What it lacks for in quality it makes up for in breadth of content. It easily outclasses the other two for the amount of categories, but it doesn't have the same pedigree of teachers - that's not saying there's not great teachers, but rather there's some not so great teachers on the platform.
Treehouse - Where many of the above resources fall short is that it's mainly watch and do on your own. Treehouse changes that by providing a much more integrated and diverse experience breaking down between watching and writing code.