Learning to code is hard. It’s so common to have doubts about yourself or your skill level. Maybe you feel like you’re simply going through the motions because you can’t reproduce everything yourself without a certain amount of guidance. Referring back to previous code, notes, or documentation is normal and something that even senior…
Michael Farrell
When Pete Hunt announced that Facebook would be open sourcing React, their internal toolkit for building UI’s, many people didn’t realize just how revolutionary a moment it was. In reality, this moment changed the way developers build things every single day. At the time, the introduction of ReactJS seemed too crazy to actually work. But fast-forward…
Ken Mazaika
In this interview, we talk with John Ellison, a lead product designer formerly of Clearleft— a top UX agency in the UK— and social entrepreneur at heart about his experience building an organization and web application from the ground up. John came to Firehose to learn Ruby on Rails and dive into back-end development, and…
Jenna Wang
We’re setting out to jailbreak the traditional bootcamp model and give graduates the platform to continue evolving their skills well after they land their first developer job. We’re launching the Firehose Advanced Programming Course, the first graduate coding course for coding bootcamp graduates. The course is designed to help new programmers accelerate their growth and become highly-valued contributors on…
Marco Morawec
Let’s be honest. JavaScript is a weird programming language. Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON and one of the most well-known JavaScript programmers, famously said in his book JavaScript the Good Parts: JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. This much is true. At its core, Javascript is very different from pretty…
Ken Mazaika
Jonathan Hsieh is a Firehose mentor and tech lead at a startup in the on-demand space. Previously, he was the director of engineering at Akuda Labs which sold to Target. He wrote this guest post for our blog based on his own experiences interviewing and hiring new developers and the conversations he had with our…
Jenna Wang