Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis

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Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis

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Jan 25, 2019

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Tae'lur Alexis joins us today to talk about her experience with learning to code from scratch and becoming a professional software developer in 2018.

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Jan 25, 2019

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Learning React with Kent C. Dodds: Kent C. Dodds, a leading React expert, speaks with John Lindquist and Joel Hooks, the co-founders of egghead, about how React is a fantastic technology to learn for both newcomers to programming and Javascript grey-beards alike. by egghead.io developer chats
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Iheanyi Ekechukwu on education, programming, and managing side projects: Today Joel catches up with Iheanyi Ekechukwu. Iheanyi is a Product Engineer currently working at DigitalOcean. He previously worked at IBM on Watson. They also talk about Iheanyi's education, stack, and side projects by egghead.io developer chats
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Michel Weststrate creator of Mobx and Immer Libraries for JavaScript: Joel interviews Michel Weststrate, author of Mobx and his new library, Immer. Today they get into the power of Immer, its early success on Github, common mistakes in state management, and what is next for Mobx. by egghead.io developer chats
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Learning to Code from Scratch on the Modern Web with Tae'lur Alexis

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