Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
Respectfully, Lane
Patch notes 🔗
1. New Project: Static Site Generator 🔗
This new guided project comes directly after the functional programming course. You’ll build a simple static site generator in Python: it works similarly to Jekyll or Hugo. This is a tough project, but it’s a great way to learn about file I/O, templating, and to put your new object-oriented and functional programming skills to the test.
2. Updates to Bosses + New Lore 🔗
The purpose of all our game mechanics is to encourage great learning habits. As such, we needed to make some updates…
- Boss battle achievements are no longer competitive, instead, they’re based on the total number of bosses you’ve helped to defeat. We plan to do boss battles on a semi-random schedule every 4-8 weeks.
- Bosses are defeated as the community gains XP. We removed the “damage” mechanic, it felt redundant.
- You now get a static XP bonus as the event goes along, and it’s based on how many fellow learners are participating.
- We’ve added a live feed of the boss’s health and the community’s progress in the event.
3. Profile heatmaps 🔗
Your public profile page now includes a GitHub-style heatmap of all your accomplishments on Boot.dev. You can also sync a GitHub account and it will show GitHub commits as well.
4. Miscellaneous improvements 🔗
- Added 20+ optional challenges to the Learn Go course.
- Big update to the OOP course
- Big update to the algorithms course
- More sidebar menus open as models so you don’t lose your place in the course
- Profile page leads much faster
- The leaderboard has a live feed of lessons being completed, as well as a full redesign
What is yet to come 🔗
- New Course: “Learn Pub/Sub Architecture”
- Chests (loot boxes) as the new primary reward system (don’t worry, no microtransactions)
- Baked Salmon, Seer Stones, and Potions to round out our shop of consumables
- New Course: “Learn Memory Management in C”
- New Course: “Learn Git”
Backend Banter Podcast 🔗
There is a brand new site, and because we moved hosting to Spotify, you can now also see the video version of the podcast on Spotify.
This month’s episodes include:
- #043 - Nuxt.js is better than Next.js ft. Daniel Roe
- #044 - Managers should know how to code ft. Thorsten Ball
- #045 - Whiskey, Web, and Wagners
- #046 - How I Spent $100,000/mo on CI/CD
- #047 - From Nursing to Programming ft. Trash Puppy
If you haven’t yet, subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts! If you leave a rating and a review, I’ll love you forever.
