JuniorLearnsToCode

You probably took plenty of online courses , but! Michael Kornblum, from the Real Tough Candy gitter chat room/community has taken his time to teach web development on Mondays, at 7pm US Central Standard time using Google Hangouts every subsequent Monday at the same time in the same place. Here is the short description of the first class, held on September 11th: Web Development 101 Welcome Front-end Developers This class is an introduction to front-end web development. It is intended to teach students the fundamentals of this subject in a manner which follows best practices, namely progressive enhancement and accessibility. The class will begin on Monday, September 11th at 7pm US Central Standard time on Google Hangouts and meet every subsequent Monday at the same time in the same place. In order to get the most out of this class, you will need to have the following software installed and operational on your system. A Text Editor Ideally you will wa...

 Should you do UNPAID Developer Internships?    Stefan Mischook answered my question in a vlog, if the topic interest you check out the video:

Dev Spotlight Series  Real Tough Candy (a web development YouTube channel and Blog) just started a new series of interviews with aspiring web developers on her website , I'd highly recommend that you check out her out site (not because the first interview is with me, haha) and subscribe to her YouTube channel! First part of the Dev Spotlight Series:  https://365blottochallenge.com/dev-spotlight-series Candy's YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54NcJvLCvM2CNaBjd5j6HA Real Tough Candy gitter chat room:  https://gitter.im/realtoughcandy-community/Lobby

Falling in love with jQuery! No big discovery here, but as I was starting the jQuery section of  Colt Steel's Udemy Bootcamp course I immediately fell in love with the simplicity and the intuitive implementation of jQuery! All the bashing jQuery gets is completely unnecessary in my (rather noobish) opinion, John Resig made one of the best JavaScript libraries ever made, and the fact that it has been widely adopted by so many websites and still is widely used speaks enough of it's quality. Many libraries and frameworks coming and going, jQuery has been around since January 2006 - 10 plus years is a LOT in IT terms. One last thing, as I was going trough the course lessons I took a small break to check what's up on YouTube, and Beau from Free Code Camp just published his tutorial on jQuery!  Maybe Fate wants me to learn jQuery...

A bit on CSS This is more of a reflecting than a blog post, to be honest. So here I am today thinking how, and why, is it that I find JavaScript so much easier to grasp and comprehend than CSS.  Anyways as I'm pondering about this a video from Stef Mischook comes out with the following tittle: " Why is CSS Layout Hard to Learn? "!  I can't say I believe in coincidences, but that's beside the point. Here is the video, I strongly encourage you to put aside 6+ minutes and watch it: Thanks for stopping by!  

An alphabetical list of the web development YouTube channels I follow: Aaron in Beta :  A vlog styled channel about a guy who got hired as a junior after a bootcamp: Chris Hawkes : Chris talks about all sorts of topics, including Python, Django, React etc. Chris Sean Vlog about a fellow who got hired as a junior after 3 month of learning on TeamTreehouse : Clever Programmer Channel with coding tutorials, focused on Python. Coding Tutorials 360 Mostly coding related live streams, also he teaches he girlfriend how to code an streams it, April learns to code in 100 days: CodingPhase Lots of beginner friendly tutorials, advice and motivational videos. Personally my favorite channel: David Connelly This old geezer is awesome, a seasoned web developer with a great sense of humor. Derek Banas Channel with coding tutorials based on the viewers request, with tons of tutorials.  DevTips A channel a...

Why did I choose JavaScript as my first language? To answer that first question first I will need to embark on a little rant on how and why did I decide to learn coding. Roughly three years ago I was working as PC repair guy and got a tech support job at the end of 2014, after getting a few Microsoft certificates (MCP, MCSA, MCITP). At that time I started thinking about learning to code in my spare time. I tried learning Java but it left me confused and feeling a bit dumb to be honest, so I gave it up for a time.  After a longer pause I started playing with HTML and CSS at the end of 2016 and found them really easy, after all those two are not real programming languages. After some research I decide to give JavaScript a try. What I liked immediately about it is the fact that you can get instant visualization of what you're learning, all you need is a modern web browser it's easy to try stuff out in the browser console. In despite all quirks that JavaScript has I...