Technology is evolving rapidly. Overall, this is an exciting thing. But it can be exhausting to try to stay relevant as a developer. It’s hard to keep up with so many changes. This is especially the case with Javascript becoming more and more prevalent. There are newer and newer technologies coming out all the time that…
Ken Mazaika
She wrote this post to help bootcamp students and graduates write more informative reviews to help out future students. When you started your bootcamp research, chances are you began by comparing programs online. Maybe you read through reviews on a site like SwitchUp, browsed posts on Medium, or even reached out to alumni through social media.…
Mary Bergeron
Shortly after college, I interviewed for my first position as a web developer. I had a bit of experience writing desktop applications, but virtually no experience in web development. At the time I had a fascination with learning Ruby on Rails, so I started learning it for fun. This was around 2008 before Ruby on Rails was…
Ken Mazaika
In 2017, there are so many different types of developers. If you’re just starting out coding, it can be super intimidating to figure out which path to go down. Should you specialize in front-end web development? Back-end development? Building desktop apps? Mobile apps? What about virtual reality or self-driving cars. There are so…
Ken Mazaika
Codecademy first launched in 2011 as an innovative way to learn to code. Fast forward to 2017, and it now has courses in 12 different programming languages and tools. If you want to learn to code, Codecademy can be an amazing resource. But there’s a lot of confusion out there about what Codecademy is and what…
Marco Morawec
JavaScript is a pretty strange programming language. But it’s also pretty cool. Back in 2007, Jeff Atwood (founder of StackOverflow), made a case that JavaScript would become a bigger part of web development. Atwood coined the term “Atwood’s Law,” which states: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. It’s…
Ken Mazaika