Figuring out what to learn next?

I've been a developer for 20+ years.

Here are the evergreen topics that will always remain important.

🧵 1/7 DSA

Data structure and algorithms are a fundamental part of programming and universal knowledge.

Learn to implement different data structures:

• List
• Array
• Stack
• Queue

and algorithms:

• Traversing
• Searching
• Insertion
• Deletion
• Sorting
• Merging

If you had asked me ten years ago what’s the best way to land a job in IT, I would’ve said get a Computer Science degree.

And I did...

I worked as a software engineer and as a CTO.

If you ask me the same question now, this is what I would do.

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Open a GitHub account and start hacking on something.

Build your own thing or join OSS projects.

We have Hacktoberfest each month!

You will always find ”good-first-pr” issues.

Try to understand issue descriptions and code review suggestions.

Looking to improve your online presence as a developer?

Here are a few things you might want to look into

🧶 1. GitHub - Step 1

Make sure your demo projects are public.

Your best work is pinned to your profile, tightened up, and has a nice README and meaningful commit history.

When reviewing the applications and CVs of other engineers, these are one of the first things I look for.

5 rules I'm following while writing a blog post ✏️

Actionable tips you can use for your next article 💁‍♀️

A thread 🧵👇 1. Title is everything.

“The confused mind says no.”

I don’t know where I read that, but it’s true 💯
Easily digestible titles will have a much higher click-through rate than complicated ones.

Your article can be 🔥 if no one reads it.

11 Online Learning Platforms for Professional Development in 2022

Thread 🧵👇 1️⃣ Coursera

Advance your career with degrees, certificates, Specializations, & MOOCs in data science, computer science, business, and dozens of other topics.

🔗 coursera.org

7 FREE Courses to Learn TypeScript

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Learn TypeScript

Learn TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that adds types to make the language scale!

🔗 codecademy.com/learn/learn-ty…

5 Ways to Build a React App From Scratch with 0 configuration

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Razzle

Razzle is a tool that abstracts all complex configurations needed for both SPA's and SSR applications into a single dependency--giving you the awesome developer experience of create-react-app

🔗 razzlejs.org

5 FREE Excel-Like JavaScript Libraries for displaying Big Data

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Luckysheet

Luckysheet is an online spreadsheet like excel that is powerful, simple to configure, and completely open-source.

🔗 mengshukeji.github.io/LuckysheetDocs/

9 YouTube Channels Packed with React Tutorials

Thread 🧵👇 1⃣ Wes Bos

@wesbos got some great tutorials on React but he also teaches HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

🔗 youtube.com/c/WesBos

9 FREE React Courses to Level Up your React Skills 🍄

Thread 🧵👇 1️⃣ Code 15 React Projects - Complete Course

Improve your skills with the React JavaScript library by building 15 projects using React.Ÿ”— Code: github.com/john-smilga/re…

🔗

9 Online Learning Platforms for Professional Development

Thread 🧵👇 1️⃣ Coursera

Advance your career with degrees, certificates, Specializations, & MOOCs in data science, computer science, business, and dozens of other topics.

coursera.org

6 FREE Udemy Courses to Learn TypeScript

🧵 👇 1️⃣ TypeScript, Quick and Easy

This is a practical course to learn TypeScript rapidly and deeply. - Free Course

🔗 udemy.com/course/typescr…

7 Platforms to Level Up your Front End Skills

🧵👇 1️⃣ Front-end web developer | MDN

A FREE course from @MozDevNet. It starts with the basics of your setup and learning how to learn.
Highly recommended for starters!

🔗 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Lea…

5 FREE React Courses If You're Just Starting Out

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Learn React for free

11 hour-long course, completely free from @bobziroll.
Contains 140+ interactive coding challenges and 9 projects!

🔗 scrimba.com/learn/learnrea…

6 React UI Components You Didn't Know Existed

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Mantine

React components and hooks library with native dark theme support focused on usability, accessibility and developer experience

🔗 mantine.dev

5 Ways to Build a React App From Scratch with 0 configuration

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Razzle

Razzle is a tool that abstracts all complex configuration needed for both SPA's and SSR applications into a single dependency--giving you the awesome developer experience of create-react-app

🔗 razzlejs.org

Are you struggling to estimate a project?

Suggest changing the scope.

Thread 🧵👇 1/4

A few months ago we were asked to migrate a piece of software to newer technology.

We knew that migrating certain parts of the software could affect our initial estimate because it would break something that wasn't broken before and we didn't plan to migrate at all.

8 Websites to Find FREE Pics for Your Next Blog Post 📸

✅ no attribution is required - but always appreciated 🙏
✅ free download
✅ no signup

A thread 🧵👇 1️⃣ Stocksnap

CC0 Free Stock Photos - Free from copyright restrictions.

🔗 stocksnap.io

6 FREE Courses to Learn some Front End Skills 🎨

Set yourself up for a career change in 2022 🚀

Thread 🧵👇 1️⃣ Free HTML Tutorial - Web Development By Doing: HTML / CSS From Scratch

Web Development From Scratch: Learn By Doing For Complete Beginners. HTML And CSS. Code Your First Website In 1 Hour. - Free Course

udemy.com/course/web-dev…

6 React UI Components You Didn't Know Existed

🧵 👇 1️⃣ Mantine

React components and hooks library with native dark theme support focused on usability, accessibility and developer experience

🔗 mantine.dev

5 guidelines I'm following while writing a blog ✏️

Actionable tips you can use for your next article 💁‍♀️

A thread 🧵👇 1. Title is everything.

“The confused mind says no.”

I don't know where I read that but it's true 💯
Easily digestible titles will have a much higher click-through rate than the complicated ones.

Your article can be 🔥 if no one reads it.