Well boys, we did it. 30 resumes in. I am now a developer and not even in grade 12! web developers |
- Well boys, we did it. 30 resumes in. I am now a developer and not even in grade 12!
- How I prepped for my interview and got the job! And a bit of my story :)
- Dog Park Check-in functionality advice
- Getting back into web development
- Coding Bootcamps - are they worth the time and money, and their marketing lies?
- Offered my first freelance job, looking for advice
- Peek pro customer block?
- [Question] What's the point of ServiceWorkers for cacheing?
- Installing Apache mod_pagespeed on Slackware?
- On the road to web development, need directions.
- Is there a tool that rearranges the order of CSS rules based on their use order in template HTML part of .Vue file?
- Local development build suggestions
- Toolkit for building projects on angular?
- Requesting advice and venting about the situation at my first junior development job.
- Which one would you suggest for backend dev Golang or Rust, and why?
- Looking to build a book recommendation site, but not sure where to start?
- Project inspiration
- Generating a new html file upon click
- Deploying frontend and backend to heroku
- (Workplace question) How are tattoos received by your peers and managers in the workplace? How have they affected the hiring process?
- is this type of interactivity possible with PDF's?
- Just Added Docker (dev environment) to Gemini - you can run a full working backend REST API server in minutes with no coding at all.
- Does anyone know what the latest v. of Local by Flywheel for Mac actually changed? (3.3.0)
- Should we be using font-smoothing?
| Well boys, we did it. 30 resumes in. I am now a developer and not even in grade 12! Posted: 31 Jul 2019 05:46 PM PDT
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| How I prepped for my interview and got the job! And a bit of my story :) Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:10 AM PDT This is coming from another post of mine ( https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ckh3us/well_boys_we_did_it_30_resumes_in_i_am_now_a/ ). Many were interested in this so here I go. This is going to be geared more towards new people just starting to look for work. No super high level tricks here. Dont think I think I know everything, just trying to help, not brag. :) Story : I am currently 17 years old going into grade 12. I've been teaching myself code since I was 13. When I first started I did some basic HTML. I then moved to CSS and JS. For the past two years I've been focusing on Java as I had a class and exam for it. The exam was the Advanced Placement Java exam, which is a year one university exam for credits. I scored five out of five for eligibility for the credits. I've taken multiple coding classes in school. Next year I am the TA for four of the classes and am remaking some of the older circulums. In the recent months I became increasing bitter about my retail job. This lead to me talking with a few developer friends about jobs. They gave me some sources for jobs, learning, etc. I compiled my good projects and wrote a resume. I then started applying. Finally got an interview, then another, and then my offer. My Search : What I did was find a local job board website. Most towns / areas have them. Go to a local subreddit and ask or a local business. These are great to find lots of businesses looking for people and some even let you post for hire. Networking is a big thing too. Go to a uni or college open house, find a robotics competition. Anywhere where tech people gather. Find some git repos to work on and make a friend. Lots of people ask for freelance devs to do projects for fun and you can put it as experience if it's big enough. If you are young or have no degree like me, hide it. The only way you can see I'm a student is if you look under education it says I'm there until 2020. Now don't be dishonest (really don't, that's scummy), just wait to say that until you're in the door. Once you land the interview than you can show them that age / education != skill. Also try to find junior or part time work. They are usually more willing to talk seeing as they don't have as high expectations. Another idea is companies that have much smaller tech departments. The big wigs won't pay you any attention, but a smaller more local business might. Yet another idea is to find the local business with no, or bad website and say for a small monthly fee you will maintain it. Make it look nicer, update this and that. Put it on the resume as free lance work. This is a really good way to get that first bit of experience. Give it a shot. Walk into that business and tell them how their website could be improved to get more traffic. Don't keep yourself to jobs you are qualified for. Apply to everything. Sometimes they might be willing to take you in regardless. Chances are if they are recruiting they need more than one spot filled. If the post is about a full stack dev they probably could do with a junior to help the big man out. Keep track of your applications. Know which companies have which version of your resume. Know who got back to you and keep a date so you know when to cross someone off. There's lots of benefits to this so make sure you do it. Make sure you have a professional email. FirstnameLastname. Nothing else. Prep : Once you have an interview. Get out the pen and paper. Look up each person you will be interviewing and the dev team. Linkedin, IG, FaceBook, etc. Find some professional and personal interests. Maybe the CEO loves dogs, use that. Bring it up. Does the company make drupal sites? Start learning. Go in with a little stalker page on everyone and connect with them deeper than someone who didn't know them would. Obviously don't be creepy about it. Find out what frameworks, languages, platforms, etc the company uses. Study up. If you have an in person interview they will likely ask a coding question. These can be tricky but just take a moment and think. Talk to them. Use pseudo code and come back later. Just don't freeze and be quiet. Ask a friend or teacher to interview you. I can't remember a name but I've heard of websites where people will interview you for free to help out. If you are young check if your government will subsidize your wage and use this as a selling point. Sometimes young workers are promoted by giving business extra money for hiring them. Might not be needed but good to know about. Relax. You aren't the best programmer. Show them that you can think, learn, and grow. That's what will get them. How to learn : Man oh man could this bit go on forever. There's tons of websites to teach you "code." But it's different than real stuff. Go to your codeacademy and such to learn principles of code and logic. After that you are mostly on your own. Get an idea. Think of a project, useful or cool. Then make it. Write out the idea, make a plan for how it could be made, what does it need, what does what. Take a task and look it up. Keep doing this. Learn by the part, not by the project. One of the biggest things I can say is don't just know something, understand it. That's the problem for copy pasting. If you use some code to solve a problem you need to figure out why it works. If you couldn't take that code and make it work for something else, don't use it until you can. Resources : For a job board, that's up to you. Most are restricted to a single area so you'll need to find one for you. Some websites I frequent are W3schools and StackOverflow. Local libraries often have soo many resources and are under used, check em out. See if your city has a maker or hacker space. People there often are willing to teach if you will listen. Look for things like code camps for children and see if you can volunteer! A few yt channels I like to watch for motivation or insights are Joshua Fluke, Brackeys, MajorPrep, Computerphile, Fireship, Primer, The Thought Emporium, Code Bullet, Code Parade, Jabrils, Thin Matrix, Hopson, Leo Caussan, and Carykh. These aren't strictly coding but honestly don't hold yourself to just code. Learning about different types, the math, and the computer itself can really further your understanding. Closing : I hope at least something here is useful. If I missed anything or you have any more questions please ask! I honestly can't thank you guys enough for the love I've already been given. So many people all over the web have helped me in different ways. I want to give back and this is hopefully my start. If you want me to help with any code, search, or resume stuff please ask. I'm not an expert but I can help with some stuff. Get out there and get gone. Don't settle for what you have if you are unhappy. Much love guys. return; [link] [comments]  | ||
| Dog Park Check-in functionality advice Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:14 AM PDT Hey everyone, i'm attempting to build my first web app. It's a simple project of allowing people to sign in and also check in to show a current count of people at the dog park of my apartment. I'm running into the issue of how to handle the check in process though. I thought I could use some form of geolocation, but that might be getting to complicated. I just want the user to only be able to check-in if they are close or in the dog park. Any ideas that I could be overlooking? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Getting back into web development Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:38 PM PDT Sorry for the formatting, I am on mobile. In 2018, attended a web design boot camp in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had to move back to Los Angeles, California to take care of a family member and had a super hard time coding after my job searches were drier than the Sahara desert. Now it's 2019 I have been getting back into the zone, making projects and exploring new technologies. I feel like when companies look past my resume they can see I had a massive dry streak in my coding and pick a more "qualified" candidate. What would be some tips for getting back into the groove? Do employers really look at your credentials that in depth before they contact you? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Coding Bootcamps - are they worth the time and money, and their marketing lies? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 10:50 AM PDT Coding bootcamps - what are they, are they worth the cost, and what are their marketing lies? I went to a coding bootcamp and switched careers into tech. Now I'm a software developer in Silicon Valley (web development). Was my experience worth it? Popular bootcamps in 2019 are Hack Reactor / Galvanize, General Assembly, Lambda School, Fullstack Academy, and Flatiron School, among many others. Many focus on web development because it's undertaught in college currently, so there's a high demand in the market. My coding bootcamp experience truly changed my life for the better, BUT was it completely worth the money? You can definitely go through the same process of learning and getting your first job without a coding bootcamp (online resources like FreeCodeCamp are great) I break down into detail some common misconceptions about coding bootcamps, and explain why you should / shouldn't go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AyjYHFW1c&list=PLu-B84cXuUeKfWabM1OUIAGtxHaPi-QJM&index=2&t=0s What is a coding bootcamp?
Why are bootcamps around?
Location?
What they don't tell you (marketing lies):
What are your thoughts on coding bootcamps? They definitely have stigmas, but the high quality ones can also be great resources! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Offered my first freelance job, looking for advice Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:56 AM PDT Hi there, I was just offered a job to build a website for a small business. They require a website with around 6 Pages , domain name and hosting, along with ~5 emails addresses, SEO, and even some branding/logo design. They asked me to quote an estimate for the job as a whole, along with an estimated timeframe. I'm quite positive I can get this all done within a reasonable timeframe , they will provide images and text (other than the logo, which is a bit up in the air) Edit: Forgot to mention, they also need a small online shop on the site (5-10 items) which I would have to figure out how to do in the meantime or get help with. Keep in mind, I'm inexperienced and this would be my first 'big' job. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated for the cost, structure, etc. If I've left out any more info that's necessary I can try to provide it. Thanks very much. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:27 PM PDT Sorry if this isn't the right place. Is there a way to get peek pro to automatically reject a customer if you input their information? We have customers we want banned but since it would be near impossible to look for their name every time I was wondering if peek pro could do it? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [Question] What's the point of ServiceWorkers for cacheing? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:26 PM PDT Aren't browser caching done by default by the browser? You literally don't have to do anything. You can even customize the browser cache by customizing your HTTP headers. Link ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4480304/how-to-set-http-headers-for-cache-control ) But ServiceWorker apparently does the job better? Does that mean we should stop using HTTP headers? Here's a dicussion on it in SO: The main takeaway was, Use Service because:
Are there any more life impacting reasons to use it? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Installing Apache mod_pagespeed on Slackware? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:16 PM PDT Im trying to install The mod_pagespeed on my apache under Slackware, any ideas how to do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| On the road to web development, need directions. Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:27 AM PDT I'm sure this subreddit is littered with these types of posts, but I feel compelled to post, because, well, no one in my life really understands my dilemma and I'm hoping you guys can help. I've been teaching myself web development over the last 8 months and have come a long a way. I've learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, and to a lesser extent: nodejs, express, mongodb, working with APIs, etc. I launched a website for my mom's business and I have a couple other people expressing interest in doing work for them. Overall, things seem to be going alright. I like it, but I wouldn't say I'm obsessed. Sometimes I have to find the motivation to sit down and learn. I have worked in retail for the past 16 years or so. It's been ok, but it's never felt like a career, just a way to pay bills. I don't identify with my coworkers, and I have grown tired of meetings that are either passionless, pointless, pretentious, or otherwise generally soul-sucking. I'm getting closer to feeling comfortable enough to apply for front end jobs. I recently shadowed a buddy who is in web development for a day, and after about 2 hours in on the day, we went and sat at a boring meeting with the marketing team. Then another with the sales team. I was repulsed by it. Also, what they were working on was converting websites to a new content management system. Seemed like pretty drab work. So what I've been wondering is this: TL;DR - Is web development actually a fun career worth the effort on pursuing? Or is it just another crappy office job with a different background? I know it's gonna depend on where you work and the people. I want to hear from those who have made this journey if it's been worth it or not for them. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:58 PM PDT Honestly sometimes when I wanna quickly check out how a CSS rule would look, I just throw it wherever, however, if it turns out to work, I sometimes forget to place it where it's supposed to go. So I am wondering if I could rearranges the order of CSS rules based on their use order in template HTML part of .Vue file? So imagine I have this block of HTML in the template part of a Vue.js file but in my style part of the Vue.js file, the order of the CSS rules is not like the order in which they're used in the template. Is there a tool that would rearrange them like this: [link] [comments]  | ||
| Local development build suggestions Posted: 01 Aug 2019 04:30 PM PDT I am currently in a situation where I am building a lot of landing pages for a couple of large websites, currently my process is building the web page on my local, uploading to the website, changing the css locally, uploading to the website, making a change locally, uploading to the website etc etc. Obviously this is not ideal. I'd like to streamline this so that I can build and iterate locally, but would like to skip the boilerplate side as much as possible and just develop the code that I need. My original plan was either a skeleton wordpress or laravel build, however I figure I should throw it out to the community and see if there is something more suited to what I want to do. Any suggestions? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Toolkit for building projects on angular? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:34 PM PDT I'm working on a project on angular, and as of right now i'm building a navbar with a sidebar that pops when a button is pressed. Quite simple so i'm doing it myself with no toolkit. However i don't know much about making it responsive or behave differently on different browsers and media so i was thinking of using a toolkit and customizing it to my needs. I've looked at toolkits like bootstrap and angular material but i don't know which one is better (look, use and customization) and also i've read that i'm not supposed to be using jQuery anymore, and considering bootstrap uses it i don't know if it's a good option. Every job interview i've had asks me if i know how to use bootstrap though, is it used that much? Is it worth it to learn or should i use something else? Or if not, should i power through and learn to write my own components? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Requesting advice and venting about the situation at my first junior development job. Posted: 01 Aug 2019 04:14 PM PDT Overall I think I've found a good place to work. It's a relatively small office, it's pretty easy going, good compensation, flexible hours, and good commute. My problem is that my team is rarely available for help. There's a very robust application we are assigned to, and it's very hard to for me to wrap my head around all of it when the people with the knowledge to answer my questions are unavailable. They've each been with the company for over three years and are frequently leaving early, traveling, or working on something that is way above me or is time bound/has too high of a priority to explain to me effectively. So what ends up happening is that I have my 40 hours a week to burn, but I don't know how to spend it effectively. It's frustrating because I'm deal with depression a lot and feeling useful about the only thing that helps. It's a government contractor, so spending time on something like a udemy course isn't how we should spend our time. I've mostly been staring at code and trying to figure out how it works. Dunno what I should expect from this rant.. Anyone have some sage advice or dealt with a similar situation? How would you resolve it? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Which one would you suggest for backend dev Golang or Rust, and why? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 07:09 AM PDT Before downvoting me, I am not asking which one is better, I know that both are really really good languages. I have tried both and liked both of them. I want to learn one of them in-depth (I don't have time to specialize in both) and I would like to hear for some experiences of using them in the backend. I mostly do Nodejs and Java on the backend. Again, I would only like to know some of your experiences using them for backend dev and why would you choose to use one over the other, I am not asking which one is better. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Looking to build a book recommendation site, but not sure where to start? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 03:38 PM PDT At the moment I know HTML, CSS, and have been learning JS for a few months now (I will be learning React, and Sass very soon). I want to practice these by building a book recommendation site and to use this for my portfolio, but I'm not sure where to start in terms of building it. I was thinking maybe to use an API, but I've only worked with APIs once before, and I'm still a bit unfamiliar on how to fetch them or set it up. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 03:36 PM PDT Where do you guys get your inspiration for your projects? I want to work on my first project but I have no idea what to work on. Suggested ideas are welcomed. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Generating a new html file upon click Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:44 AM PDT I'm attempting to make a project manager with my front end being HTML, CSS, and Javascript w/ jQuery. I'm building a Web Api using ASP.Net Core (no razor pages involved). I was wondering how to created a new html page upon the user entering some form data and clicking a button (e.g. making a new project and generating it in a new, unique page). [link] [comments]  | ||
| Deploying frontend and backend to heroku Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:42 AM PDT Hello, so I need assistance on which preferred method to use to deploy my web app. My web app has the root directory which contains two folders. One folder is for the vue frontend and the other folder is a rails backend. Now I haven't git initialized just yet cause I've seen articles where they separated both ends as two repos and then deploying with two heroku apps. And I've seen other articles where they use just one repo starting at the root directory and then using two heroku dynos. I also know that heroku allows for more than one procfile, but overall I'm not too certain which method seems best. If you have any other suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them. Thank you! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:24 AM PDT This questions is targeted primarily towards the hiring process and the various work cultures from company to company. I'm not sure if this kind of post belongs here but since I work as a software engineer who handles all of the web development at my workplace I thought I'd give it a shot. I know a few people here at work that have visible tattoos and it doesn't seem like their position here is affected. We are a small company and operate kind of like a startup. It might be worth mentioning that this company is expanding and has doubled in size (from 30 to 60 people) in the span of a year. I don't have any tattoos myself but would like to get a forearm sleeve and am unsure of how this would be received. What I'm most concerned about is having visible tattoos during the hiring process for future jobs. Has anyone felt like it hindered their chances at landing a job or have your relationships with people changed after they found out about your tattoos? Edit: Thanks for sharing all of your experiences. This makes me feel better moving forward. So great to hear positive things from all of the various companies you've all worked for. [link] [comments]  | ||
| is this type of interactivity possible with PDF's? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:59 PM PDT I am wanting to output some data to a PDF, where when a datapoint is hovered or clicked, it highlights some other related data. Is this possible with a PDF? [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Does anyone know what the latest v. of Local by Flywheel for Mac actually changed? (3.3.0) Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:33 AM PDT I recently got the update for 3.3.0 but I can't find any information on this; their forums posts on updates seems to be only talking about 3.2x versions from back in May I think. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Should we be using font-smoothing? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:20 AM PDT There are many websites that use it, and a lot of notable standouts that don't, like google and github. I have a retina Mac, so the font smoothing looks good to me, but are there times where font smoothing is bad? The only thing I found on this is http://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/ which I remember reading years ago, so in the back of my mind I always regard font smoothing as a hack. Shouldn't we just allowing the os to handle font rendering? Why or why not? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
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