Learning Resources
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Create flags of the world using HTML/CSS or SVG
Create a responsive grid framework
Additional CSS Frameworks
Make your own! Start small and build it up
Videos
Watch this video on the JavaScript Event Loop. A must if you want to gain a deeper understanding of JavaScript
Articles with JavaScript must-knows
Microservices: Creating isolated applications that perform single tasks. Basically, they're Express applications that are simple and well-defined, with a couple routes.
FreeCodeCamp microservice projects (note that these are open-ended projects, not tutorials)
Angular 1.x Testing
Sinatra, an Express-like framework for Ruby
Increasing Development Speed
Many people swear by VIM as their text editor (due to keyboard shortcuts)
Sublime plugins (COMMAND + SHIFT + P, to bring up this up in Sublime)
AngularJS
SASS
Babel
EJS
Bootstrap 3 Snippets
BracketHighlighter
Color Highlighter
ColorPicker
EditorConfig
Emmet
JSX
Jade
Markdown Preview
These are some great educational resources for continued learning. Note that these are paid resources
Free if you have a Seattle Public Library card
Basically the entire tech section in a bookstore
Review your Github and be able to explain your coding choices
This may involve cleaning up previous assignments/projects by fixing bugs, improving styling, and making sure things are deployed
Review other common interview questions. Make sure that if you are interviewing for a specific role or set of technologies, that you find interview questions on those technologies. For example, a Rails job will require you to know more about Ruby and Rails. A front-end job will require you to know more about HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
Practice coding challenges and whiteboarding
Note that if you're freelancing, it may involve writing contracts, managing money coming in/out, pricing yourself, etc. Here are some links that may come in handy.
Go small and create examples with interactive editors, like . Then, embed them into your portfolio! Some ideas:
Try duplicating , or get inspiration to create your own masterpieces
Follow the blog and try out new selectors. Some great CSS Tricks pages:
- This series will elevate your JavaScript knowledge to a new level
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(Or really any course by wes bos.)
- ES6 becoming more and more prevalent, so become familiar with it
- Learn more about Node I/O, modules, and streams. Amazing examples, 10/10.
- Auth + API examples + test suite, out of the box. Great for quick projects
- AWS provides a 12-month free tier for getting started with cloud services, as well as a plethora of documentation for using their services
- Docker is a tool for deploying applications in sandboxed containers, which provide a level of isolation between applications
- note that a lot of these concepts exist in AWS and elsewhere
Nerd out on some VS Code extensions like
- module bundling for front-end dependencies
- data structure and algorithm visualizations
(Make a PR to add a new sort to this app )
Review the .
(look up the company you're applying for)
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