Julian E Johannesen

I'm about to finish up Udacity's Front End Nanodegree program. It's been a great experience. I was fortunate to attend on a scholarship, but I think it's a good value for what they ordinarily charge relative other similar programs. Some of the material lacks depth and you'll need to supplement with additional reading and tutorials, and some of the material is out of date, but overall, I really...

100 Days of Code is a great accountability tool. I found the community on Slack and Twitter to be very supportive. There are no drawbacks as such, but I did notice that people sometimes spent more time than I thought they needed to agonizing over what really counted as a day of coding, whether they needed to start over from the start if they missed a day or two days, whether they could take...

I made my first PR after Linda Peng slowly and painstakingly walked me through the process of basically everything involved, from using Git and GitHub, to installing Meteor, the whole shebang. I've used CodeBuddies to host numerous learning sessions with other students in my program and it's been a wonderful tool. Pros: great learning platform, supportive community, welcoming to beginners Cons:...