I wanted to share this for any students who may be unaware of this awesome free resource. Github Student Developer Pack. All you have do is signup with an .edu email address. You do not have to be enrolled in a computer science program.

Signing up gets you access to:

• Free AWS Educate Starter Account for GitHub Students, worth $100

• Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit

• 1 year SSL certificate + 1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD through NameCheap

• Polypane free for 1 year

• $50 in platform credit for new users

• A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student

• $200 in MongoDB Atlas Credits, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University

• Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops

• Heroku - One free Hobby Dyno for up to two years

• and honestly SO much more.

I've been in the GSDP for about a year now and honestly forgot how many awesome resources are associated with it until today when I was looking to see if there was a student discount to Frontend Masters.

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I'll be brief, cuz it would take forever to tell it all.

I'm 40 years old and I had been teaching English for the last 8 years. In April to October of 2021 , I attended a full stack MERN hybrid bootcamp (curriculum online during the week and zoom with other students and instructors on the weekend). I taught full time during school months as well.

I had absolutely ZERO coding experience beforehand. I had built 3 or 4 WordPress sites prior to my bootcamp only using plugins. ...I couldn't have even told you what a div or a variable was.

In January 2022, I got serious about teaching myself how to use 3rd party APIs and I built a very simple search engine for an API using React as a single-page-application.

Then I started applying for jobs. And heard NOTHING back. I asked a career coach at my bootcamp to help and she said to restructure my resume to show any work I had done as "experience." So I went from "a teacher and bootcamp grad who has been learning for 1.5 years" to "Web developer - 2 years."

That did the trick.

After building a routine of about 200 applications a week (most were LinkedIn Quick Apply), I got in an almost instant routine of daily interviews.

From the middle of June to the end of July, I did 40 interviews in 30 business days. I received four offers of varying quality and just accepted one for a fantastic company working with a stack I've never touched (Ruby & Rails).

If you've got the talent, the discipline, and the drive, you can do it!

Ask me anything...

EDIT: wow, came back a day later and this post blew up. lol 😁

Javascript callbacks are one of the most important concepts to understand. I never knew the importance of understanding them until I started trying to learn Promises and Async/Await which aim to replace and solve problems with callbacks.

I had trouble understanding promises, I kept asking myself, “Where and why would I use this?”. I would read an article talking about using Promises with Fetch API I would get it in that context but I kept wondering about the situation I would create a Promise for my code.

I must mention I also had a very poor understanding of asynchronous programming in JavaScript, so I was set up to fail. Learning more about asynchronous programming lead me to callbacks which gave me an aha moment, the light bulb went on. I finally understood the hype about Promises and Async/Await.

In this article, We are going to take a look at the difference between synchronous and asynchronous programming in JavaScript. We will then proceed to learn about the importance of callbacks, creating callbacks, and finally, we will cover about callback hell.

By the end of this tutorial, you will understand:

• Synchronous and asynchronous behavior in JavaScript

• Why and when callbacks are needed

• How to create callbacks.

• Callback hell

I believe the knowledge you will gain from reading this tutorial will be an invaluable prerequisite to learning Promises and Async/Await.

Link to the full article: https://www.stanleyulili.com/javascript/asynchronous-programming-with-callbacks-in-javascript/

Hello!

I've just made a JavaScript cheatsheet ( Repo / PDF ).

• Types

• Booleans, Numbers, and methods on Strings

• Objects and Arrays

• The “this” keyword

• Object oriented programming

• The Iterable Interface

• JavaScript & the browser

Enjoy! ^_^