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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.
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2023
Aug 31, 2023 by Lane WagnerThe 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.
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Can I Use Python for Web Development?
Aug 14, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerI love giving a short answer to these: yes, 100%, Python is a great tool for web development.
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The One Thing I'd Change About Go
Aug 12, 2023 by Lane WagnerGo is built for grug brained programmers like me. grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused
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What is Backend Web Development?
Aug 07, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerThe boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications.
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2023
Jul 28, 2023 by Lane WagnerAs I’m writing this on July 28th, we’ve had 118,984 lessons successfully completed by students on Boot.
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The Pros and Cons of Django for Backend Development
Jul 17, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerDjango is a popular Python-based framework for building web applications. It provides pre-built components and conventions, which simplifies the web app development process and allows developers to focus on writing their application’s specific logic rather than dealing with repetitive tasks.
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I Mock Your Mocks
Jul 13, 2023 by Lane WagnerSeveral years ago I started my first job as a “senior” Go developer. You see, after a modest 3 years in the industry, my arcane ability to use the Go standard library’s strings.
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The Best Backend for Vue: 6 Options
Jul 11, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerPart of being in the software development space means I’m near a lot of entrepreneurs. Code is a powerful building block, and that appeals to a lot of self-taught big thinkers.
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Frontend? Gross. This is Why I've Always Preferred the Backend
Jul 09, 2023 by Lane WagnerAs a kid, I always wanted to be good at drawing. I practiced drawing my favorite anime characters, but frankly, my mom was the only one who thought they were good.
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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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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2023
Jun 26, 2023 by Lane WagnerJune was hot. I got sunburned. What else happened… Oh yeah, I finished the new CI/CD course!
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What’s the Best Backend For React? 5 Options to Choose From
Jun 26, 2023 by Natalie Schooner“I already know React,” mused my friend. “What popular backend language should I learn that will make me a useful hire to companies?
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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.
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Boot.dev Team Culture
Jun 12, 2023 by Lane WagnerOur mission statement: To make learning backend engineering skills as fun and simple as it can be.
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Boots, a Wizard Bear that Codes
Jun 08, 2023 by Allan LiresBoots is the heart and soul of Boot.dev. Not only is he capable of helping you through any lesson on Boot.
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The Boot.dev Hiring Process
Jun 02, 2023 by Lane WagnerWe’re a very small team. At a larger company, you can afford to have a mediocre hire.
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2023
May 31, 2023 by Lane WagnerMay 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.
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Work at Boot.dev
May 31, 2023 by Lane WagnerWe’re building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom.
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Format on Save in Go with VS Code [2023]
May 26, 2023 by Lane WagnerGo has hard opinions about how you should style and format your code. Setting up your VS Code environment to enforce the standard linting and formatting rules can save you a ton of time.
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Programming types and (incorrect) mindsets
May 08, 2023 by Lane WagnerDHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails, Hey, Basecamp, and a few other things, recently wrote an article titled “Programming types and mindsets”, and I just have to chime in on this one.
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12 Codecademy Alternatives That Will Get You Where You Need to Go
May 04, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerJust last month, Codecademy was sold to Skillsoft for $525 million. Not too shabby, and entirely well-deserved if you ask me.
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023
May 03, 2023 by Lane WagnerWe hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform!
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The 28 Best Places to Learn Python Online
Apr 28, 2023 by Natalie SchoonerFor anyone who wants to learn Python online, it can be a bit overwhelming. When I Googled it, I came up with over 200 million hits.
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C Sharp vs Python: Which Is the Best Programming Language?
Apr 27, 2023 by Natalie Schooner“You’re comparing apples to oranges,” Susan, a developer at my company, said when I asked her which programming language she preferred, C # or Python.