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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
Feb 28, 2024 by Lane Wagner
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2024
Jan 31, 2024 by Lane Wagner
609,179. That’s the number of lessons you crazy folks have completed on Boot.dev in the last 30 days. Good work my fellow pupils.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024
Jan 03, 2024 by Lane Wagner
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I’m happy to be back in my office. Kids can be exhausting. Love ’em, but they’re exhausting.
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023
Dec 01, 2023 by Lane Wagner
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now… wouldn’t recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2023
Oct 30, 2023 by Lane Wagner
Hope you had a fantastic Halloween. I spent last weekend in Seattle with Allan and Hunter (the other two full-timers here at Boot.dev) at the DotA 2 International. Absolute blast. I’ve never been to such an enormous gaming event in person. Ah, well, back to coding.
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.

News Articles - Pg. 2

The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024

The Boot.dev Beat. February 2024

The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024

The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. November 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. September 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. August 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. July 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. June 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023

The Boot.dev Beat. April 2023

Introducing Boots, the Artificially Intelligent Bear that Explains Code

Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

Cryptography Course Released on Boot.dev

Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

Boot.dev Beat. November 2022

What do Tech Layoffs Mean for Budding Developers?

Boot.dev Beat: October 2022 Edition

New 'Learn SQL' Course Launched on Boot.dev

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

Boot.dev Hackathon September 1st, 2022

What Would a Recession Mean For Developers?

We Just Launched Community Insights