TL;DR: I got a job! Also, always fill out applications for things that look interesting, because why not!? Three years ago, I started teaching myself to code while I was pregnant with Lincoln. I’d had an interest in it for a bit and we had just relocated back to NYC so I was at a bit of professional crossroads. My …
I plan to write a few blog posts detailing my MotherCoders experience thus far and as the program continues. I hope you’ll follow along. This post will serve as a little background as to what it’s all about and why I joined! First things first, if you haven’t read the piece “The Secret History of Women in Coding” which appeared …
Kate Poltrack is a family law attorney with offices in Westchester and Manhattan. She had a very simple, informational website that had begun to feel outdated, and she wanted to give it a facelift. Kate didn’t need a lot of bells and whistles, she just needed to give potential clients a good impression upon visiting her site, tell them a …
I’ve been asked a few times to share a list of the resources I used when I was first learning to code, as well as my ongoing go-to resources. I just sent out an email to a student at my alma mater whom I chatted with at an alumni event recently. I was happy to help him out and point …
Persea Consulting helps companies with developer-focused products build relationships with the developer community. Developer relations is based on the idea that traditional marketing efforts don’t work with developers because they are a special breed. 😉 Persea founder, Mary Thengvall is an expert in building developer communities and helping companies understand what it’s all about, and as such, she is a …
I recently completed a Squarespace site for The Party New York, a full-service event planning and production company located here in New York. Squarespace worked really well for this site, because it’s heavily gallery-driven. There was a little bit of custom CSS just to tweak things to my liking, but other than that, it was fairly straightforward. The galleries highlight …
As a new developer, I quickly came to learn the power of Stack Overflow. If you do a google search for anything related to coding, be it a way to do something in Javascript, an explanation of a computer science concept, how to achieve a certain look with CSS, etc., you’ll find a Stack Overflow thread at the top of …
The guy who is quickly becoming my coding guru, Brad Traversy, has a series of videos on his YouTube page called JavaScript Cardio. They include the type of exercises you might find yourself having to answer in a job interview. When I first started learning JavaScript, I’d look at stuff like this and feel absolutely befuddled. Now I actually find …
TL;DR: Yes, I would say a Frontend Nanodegree from Udacity is worth it, IF you’re the type of person who needs a bit more structure to their learning process, but also wants the flexibility of being able to learn on their own time (i.e not in a classroom/bootcamp setting). Just be sure to take advantage of the resources that Udacity …