Educations
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Are Boot.dev Courses Free?
May 23, 2025 by Lane WagnerSometimes folks get confused and wonder, are Boot.dev’s programming courses really free? First of all, the simple answer is yes, all of the content on Boot.dev is free. That means that all the lesson explanations, the explainer videos, and the starter code is free. You can get all of it (not just the first few chapters, or the first course) without ever becoming a paid member.
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The State of Learning to Code - 2024 Report
Oct 21, 2024 by Lane WagnerI’ve been building a learning curriculum for backend developers for the last 3 years, but I’ve mostly been relying on qualitative feedback and my own intuitions.
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Is there a course on <insert technology>?
Jul 26, 2024 by Casper AnderssonIn the Boot.dev Discord server, this question appears now and then. Will there be a Rust course? Why is there no Django course? Can you add a Spring Boot course? Maybe there will be in the future. Maybe not. It’s impossible to cover everything that everyone wants. But that’s no reason to not do the curriculum. Even universities with their 3-4 year degrees only cover a fraction of all there is. Instead, it prepares you to specialize and learn what you want.
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes
Mar 08, 2024 by Lane WagnerTheo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the “Line of Primeagen”.
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Learn to Code the Slow Way
Sep 10, 2023 by Lane WagnerEver since starting Boot.dev, I’ve been flooded with what I call “quicksand questions”. On the surface, a quicksand question seems like a good question. If you could answer it, it would catapult you from where you are (nightshift at the Wendy’s drive-in) to where you want to be (telling friends that you work at Netflix btw).
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Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2023
Sep 05, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerIf you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell
Jul 04, 2023 by Lane WagnerWhile “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
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Awww, do I Really Need to Learn X to Get a Job as a Developer?
Jun 24, 2023 by Lane WagnerA developer’s life is a never-ending saga of learning new things. It’s like you’re playing Diablo where every new Jira ticket can feel like the next mini boss to slay. Exciting? Absolutely. Scary? Sure. Especially at first.
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JavaScript? Python? Go? Which Tech Stack Should You Learn?
Apr 24, 2023 by Lane WagnerAh, the age-old question: which tech stack should I learn? Aspiring developers often get bogged down in this dilemma, and it’s not hard to see why. The tech industry is an ocean of opportunities, and the fear of diving into the wrong waters can be paralyzing.
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How to Do a Coding Bootcamp Part-Time
Jul 12, 2022 by Natalie SchoonerStep 1: Develop a caffeine addiction. 🔗 If you want to add coding to your list of skills, either out of curiosity or to take your career in a whole new direction, you’ve probably considered a coding bootcamp. Then you’ve probably looked at the prices and time commitment and immediately wondered how to do a coding bootcamp part-time, instead.
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Why We Force You to Learn Multiple Programming Languages
Jun 13, 2022 by Lane WagnerI’ve been building Boot.dev as a side-project for the last couple of years, and have recently had many new students ask the same question:
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How much do coding bootcamps cost?
May 24, 2022 by Zulie RaneAnd an answer to what you’re really asking: “are coding bootcamps worth it?” 🔗 I’ll give you the quick answer right off the bat: coding bootcamps cost 13,500 on average based on the data collected by BestColleges. On the upper end of that range, coding bootcamps cost upwards of $20,000. Some of the less-expensive camps are a couple thousand dollars. It’s 2022 as I write this, so those numbers have probably increased even more in the interim.
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The Top 8 Online Coding Bootcamps for 2022
May 21, 2022 by Zulie RaneI looked at the cost, duration, structure, and USP for each online coding bootcamp 🔗 If you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, let me quickly tell you about what a coding bootcamp is before I get into the top online coding bootcamps. Basically, a coding bootcamp is an expensive and mentally intense way to shoehorn skills and knowledge into your brain at top speed, allowing you to skip past degrees at record speed.
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives
May 10, 2022 by Lane WagnerI’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with education, particularly higher education.