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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023

Oct 01, 2023 by Lane Wagner

Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.

The Boot.dev Beat. September 2023

Aug 31, 2023 by Lane Wagner

The best part of working on Boot.dev is seeing you all make almost unbelievable strides in not only your understanding of fundamental concepts, but what you can now build from scratch. It’s not just that, I’ve been hearing a lot of stories about the confidence that’s being gained by our alumnis after shipping so much code. That’s a critical part of the journey.

The Boot.dev Beat. August 2023

Jul 28, 2023 by Lane Wagner

As I’m writing this on July 28th, we’ve had 118,984 lessons successfully completed by students on Boot.dev so far this July. This marks the first time we’ve had over 100k lessons completed in a month. While I’m ecstatic that we’ve been able to join you in so many of your learning journeys, I just want to emphasize that it’s your journey. We’re here to provide the best resources and experience that we can, but you deserve every ounce of credit for your hard work. Keep it up friends.

The Boot.dev Beat. July 2023

Jun 26, 2023 by Lane Wagner

June was hot. I got sunburned. What else happened… Oh yeah, I finished the new CI/CD course! It’s slated to launch on July 10th, so watch out for that. We also are in the process of hiring a new Boot.dev team member to help us build harder better faster and stronger.

The Boot.dev Beat. June 2023

May 31, 2023 by Lane Wagner

May was a historic month for Boot.dev. We added more students to the backend learning path than we ever have in a single month before, and we’re doing everything we can to build and release new, better courses at a faster clip. Thanks for hanging out and learning with us.

The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023

May 03, 2023 by Lane Wagner

We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we’re building is helping you, even if it’s in a small way.

The Boot.dev Beat. April 2023

Apr 06, 2023 by Lane Wagner

We released more this last March than I think we’ve ever released in a single month before. I’ve been biting my nails waiting to share it all in this month’s newsletter.

Introducing Boots, the Artificially Intelligent Bear that Explains Code

Mar 06, 2023 by Lane Wagner

Learning to code isn’t easy; frankly, I’d be wary of anyone who tells you that it is. Hopefully, you’re primarily learning by writing and reading a lot of code. As you code, you’ll run into roadblocks and bumps, and having a mentor that can answer your questions is an unbelievable advantage.

Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

Mar 01, 2023 by Lane Wagner

I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.

Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

Feb 01, 2023 by Lane Wagner

If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.

Cryptography Course Released on Boot.dev

Jan 24, 2023 by Lane Wagner

Greetings! We’re excited to announce that we’ve unveiled a brand-new cryptography course on Boot.dev. We’re convinced that this new experience is truly one of a kind. If you want to learn cryptography while writing real code in the Go programming language, you should check it out.

Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

Jan 06, 2023 by Lane Wagner

I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.

Boot.dev Beat. November 2022

Nov 30, 2022 by Lane Wagner

I hope you’ve enjoyed your pumpkin spice lattes this fall, that is, assuming that you’re basic like me. The meme about programmers and their coffee will never be cliche right? Hope you enjoy this month’s issue.

What do Tech Layoffs Mean for Budding Developers?

Nov 11, 2022 by Lane Wagner

So we’re officially in a recession, and now the question is, “what does a recession mean to me as a brand-new developer?”. It’s scary stuff. As you can see in this chart, tech stocks are getting hit hard.

Boot.dev Beat: October 2022 Edition

Oct 31, 2022 by Lane Wagner

Happy Halloween! We released a ton of new stuff on Boot.dev this October, and I’ve had a blast figuring out new mediums and tools we can use to create content. Anyhow, here’s to a great November glass clink. If you ever want to connect with me personally you can just reply here, I’d love to chat.

New 'Learn SQL' Course Launched on Boot.dev

Sep 19, 2022 by Lane Wagner

I’m happy to announce that today we launched our new Learn SQL course! It was a ton of fun to write, but I also had a blast building the back-end infrastructure that allows students to write and execute SQL in the browser. If you’ve been wanting to gain a solid foundation of SQL skills, this course is for you!

The More Mentors, The Better (When Learning to Code)

Sep 13, 2022 by Lane Wagner

Vim or VS Code? Tabs or spaces? Rails or Django? The world of programming is fraught with decisions to be made. Sometimes experienced developers are able to share their beliefs in a somewhat objective way. That said, we’re all human, and opinions can come across as gospel when we’re not careful.

Boot.dev Hackathon September 1st, 2022

Sep 03, 2022 by Lane Wagner

Mark your calendar, because we’re hosting another hackathon in the Boot.dev Discord server! The kickoff meeting will be on Thursday, September 1st at 4PM MST, you can RSVP for that event here in our Discord server. Everyone is welcome to participate, in fact, it’s free and we’ll have prizes for all the winners!

What Would a Recession Mean For Developers?

May 26, 2022 by Lane Wagner

With markets in a slump, many of us are concerned a recession could be right around the corner. The NASDAQ is already down 27% so far in 2022. Heck, maybe we’re already in the middle of a recession.

We Just Launched Community Insights

Apr 27, 2022 by Lane Wagner

tl;dr 🔗 At Boot.dev we’ve launched “community insights”! Insights make it possible for our students to drop comments at the bottom of any step in our coding courses. We’ve quickly found that we have amazing students, and it’s much better for everyone if we give them tools to help each other more directly.

Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

Apr 07, 2022 by Lane Wagner

We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming languages and technologies.

Qvault Hackathon Kickoff Jan 17th, 2022

Jan 16, 2022 by Lane Wagner

We’re starting our first hackathon in the Qvault Discord server on January 17th at 8AM. Everyone is welcome to participate. Let’s go over the details about of event. You can RSVP for the event here.

Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

Oct 04, 2021 by Lane Wagner

We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the course in Python!

Our Learn Python Course Has Released

Jul 27, 2021 by Lane Wagner

We’ve just launched our latest course, Learn Python. Start the “Learn Python” Course Now What’s more: to celebrate the release, we’re offering full FREE access to the entire course — yep, you can take the entire course for free for a month — but the code expires in just 14 days. Simply enter this code at checkout:

All Coding Courses on boot.dev Are Now Free to Audit

Mar 15, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Last weekend I did a major revamp of boot.dev’s payment strategy, after toying with the first version since I launched in the summer of 2020, as it turns out, the microtransaction (gem) strategy didn’t work out to the benefit of my students, nor to the growth of boot.dev. As a result, I’ve flipped my funding strategy on its head and decided to make all of boot.dev’s content free to audit. Let’s take a look at exactly what that means.