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153 JSJ Careers for Junior Developers with Aimee Knight

02:26 - Aimee Knight Introduction

02:48 - Figure Skating => Programming

  • Persistence
  • Balance Between Mind and Body

05:03 - Blogging (Aimee’s Blog)

06:02 - Becoming Interested in Programming

08:43 - Why Boot Camps?

10:04 - Mentors

  • Identifying a Mentor
  • Continuing a Mentorship

13:33 - Picking a Boot Camp

16:23 - Self-Teaching Prior to Attending Boot Camps

20:33 - Finding Employment After the Boot Camp

26:27 - Being a “Woman in Tech”

30:57 - Better Preparing for Getting Started in Programming

  • Be Patient with Yourself

32:07 - Interviews

  • Getting to Know Candidates
  • Coding Projects and Tests

41:05 - Should you get a four-year degree to be a programmer?

Picks

Aarti Shahani: What Cockroaches With Backpacks Can Do. Ah-mazing (Jamison)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Jamison)
The Hiring Post (Jamison)
Kate Heddleston: Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression (Jamison)
Axios AJAX Library (Dave)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Dave)
[YouTube] Good Mythical Morning: Our Official Apocalypse (AJ)
Majora's Mask Live Action: The Skull Kid (AJ)
The Westin at Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa (Joe)
Alchemists (Joe)
Valerie Kittel (Joe)
The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Freelancers’ Answers (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
Brandon Hays: Letter to an aspiring developer (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
Exercise and Physical Activity (Aimee)




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MJS #019: Aimee Knight

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood features My JS Story Aimee Knight. Aimee first appeared in episode 153, where talked about her career as a Junior Developer. She eventually became one of the awesome panelists of JavaScript Jabber. Tune in to learn about her journey in programming!




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MJS 085: Chris McKnight

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Chris McKnight

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Chris McKnight who is a software developer who knows Angular, Ruby, Node.js, and iOS. He went to college at Louisiana State University and graduated with a computer science degree from LSU. They talk about Chris’ background, past/current projects, among other things. Check out today’s episode to hear the panel talk about JavaScript, Angular, C and C++, Node, React, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!

1:12 – Chuck: Hello! Introduce yourself, please!

1:15 – Guest: I am a software engineer outside of Nashville, Tennessee. I work for a medium consultancy company. I know JavaScript, Angular, NativeScript, and JS, too.

1:41 – Chuck: Cool! Tell us your story and how you got into programming?

2:00 – Guest: I was a really big nerd in high school and grew up in Louisiana, USA. There was one other person in the school that knew what I was talking about. I was learning C++ and Visual Studio in 2003. That was really back in the day and Microsoft Foundation class was a thing. I moved onto PHP and started working for a company in Baton Rouge after graduating college. I have a computer science degree with a secondary discipline in mathematics. I graduated from LSU and got a job offer before I graduated. Doing some part-time work for them b/c they were swamped. I was writing PHP and they said that they used jQuery a lot.

4:47 – Chuck: You got started and you said you used C and C++, why those languages?

5:05 – Guest: I did a little bit of Java, but it was the “new kid on the block.” I wanted to get into a program that was user-friendlier.

6:21 – Chuck: I took C and C++ classes in college. Eventually I did Ruby on Rails. I totally understand why you went that way.

6:44 – Guest: I picked-up Rails, because a company (that I worked for at the time) used it. I usually reached for jQuery among other options.

7:31 – Chuck: When did you start taking JavaScript seriously?

7:40 – Guest: 2012-2013. Frustrations of not using JavaScript as good as I could. For jQuery you have to call when you have an issue. Then you run into all of these bugs, and...

9:18 – Chuck: It sounds like it was more out of necessity.

9:30 – Guest: Yep, exactly. Those pain points have been reduced b/c I have been using Type Script and Angular and now version 6 and version 7. You try to call a number method on a string and vice versa, and app development time.

10:03 – Chuck: ...it has a process running with it.

10:13 – Guest: Catching a lot of those easy mistakes (bugs) and it’s a 5-10 minute fix. It takes a lot of that away. Sometimes you can say: I want to ignore it.

Or it doesn’t give you runtime guarantees.

Some other libraries out there have been on the forefront of fixing those problems. REST TYPE is an example of that.

11:39 – Chuck: When I talk to people about JavaScript a lot of times I get basically that they are saying: I started doing more things in Node or React – I fell in love with the language. Your reasons for starting JavaScript are because “I hated running into these problems.” Did you start loving to work in JavaScript?

12:11 – Guest: I did start loving it but it took a while. I could write a short amount of code and then at the end I get a result.

Another thing that bothers me is FILTER. What does it return? It’s actually FIND and FIND INDEX and you use the pattern of filter and run this expression and give me index zero.

14:16 – Chuck: What work have you done that you are proud of?

14:20 – Guest: I started a new job last month; beforehand I worked at a mortgage company. I was proud of the Angular application and applications that I worked on. 

16:55 – Chuck: How did you get into Angular?

17:00 – Guest: Interesting story. October of 2016 – at this time I was all against Angular. However someone came to me and said we have to...

At the time I wasn’t impressed with the language. I learned about Angular at the time, though, and learned through Egghead. I learned a lot in 2 days, and I got pretty decent at it. I was writing Angular applications pretty quickly, and it made sense to me.

20:53 – Chuck: I am a fan of the CLI b/c that’s what we have in Rails. It’s really nice. What are you working on these days?

21:13 – Guest: Less on Angular b/c of the new job. I will do Angular on my free time. I work on Angular at nighttime. I build some things in React these past few weeks.

23:07 – Chuck: Any part of your experience that could help people?

23:17 – Guest: Learn what’s happening under the hood of libraries such as jQuery. Explore and find resources to help you. Keep learning and keep at it. Tools are so god now – such as Prettier and Lint – they will tell me “you don’t want to do this.” Use the tooling and learn the fundamentals. Also, use Babel! Those are my tips of advice.

25:55 – Chuck: That’s solid. Yes, the fundamentals and the poly-fills will fill in the gaps. So now it’s: what do I want to stack on top of this? Once you know the fundamentals.

26:55 – Guest: Learn what the frameworks and libraries are doing.

Don’t get overwhelmed. That’s my advice.

28:16 – Chuck: Where can people find you?

28:24 – Guest: GitHub and Twitter. I’ve been working on a website, but not ready, yet.

29:08 – Chuck: Picks!

29:15 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial!

35:45 – Cache Fly

Links:

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Chris

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Reading Romans backwards : a gospel of peace in the midst of empire / Scot McKnight

McKnight, Scot, author




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Societal Perceptions of Physicians: Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?

Interview with Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA and Christine K. Cassel, MD, authors of Societal Perceptions of Physicians: Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?




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The marriage record of Skipper, William S. and Knight, Elizabeth




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The marriage record of Knight, James L. and Wilder, Jane I




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The marriage record of Knight, A. Jackson and Clarke, Florida W




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The marriage record of Knight, H. Laurens and Wall, Lillie W




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The marriage record of Elmondson, John N. and Knight, Helen U




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The marriage record of Holliman, Ben and McKnight, Rhonda




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The marriage record of Knight, Elias J. and Dixon, Julie E




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The marriage record of Ferniaus, Albeto and McKnight, Laura




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The marriage record of Knight, Charles L. and Wall, Daisy




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The marriage record of Moody, John B. and Knight, Grace P




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The marriage record of Everitt, Sherman and McKnight, Lucy




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The marriage record of Knight, John and Hamilton, Frances




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The marriage record of Wallace, E. R. and Knight, Amelia E




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The marriage record of Lopez, Frank and Knight, Bessie M




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The marriage record of Douglas, Arthur A. and Knight, Lizzie B




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Ginkehous tenor opera star in the role of Lohengrin, a Knight with a Swan emblem




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Prof. Kathleen Carvalho-Knighton




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Cesar Gonzmart, King of the Krewe of the Knights of St. Yago




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Cesar Gonzmart and Henry Fernandez, founders of the Krewer of the Knights of St. Yago, Tampa's first Latino Gasarilla Krewe




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Cesar Gonzmart as a Knight of St. Yago




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King and Queen of the Krewe of the Knights of St. Yago




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Cesar and Adela Gonzmart at a costume party, probably held by the Krewe of the Knights of St. Yago




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Cesar Gonzmart is knighted into the Orden del Yago




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Cesar Gonzmart is knighted into the Orden del Yago in Spain




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Casey, Adela, and Richard Gonzmart ride in the Krewe of the Knights of St. Yago's Gasparilla night parade in Ybor City




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Casey, Cesar, and Richard Gonzmart, after Cesar was crowned king of the Krewe of the Knights of St. Yago




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Approach to Knight's Key Bridge, Florida East Extension




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Draw bridge at Moser Channel near Knight's Key, Florida East Coast Extension




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Florida East Coast Railroad, Key West Extension, finishing concrete piers for steel bridge over sea, Knights Key, Florida




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Building Key West Extension, Over-Sea Railroad, Knights Key, Florida




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Florida East Coast Railway, Key West Extension, train crossing steel bridge over-sea, near Knights Key, Florida




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Building Key West Extension, "Over-Sea Railroad", Knights Key Bridge, Florida




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Old trestle and new steel bridge approaching Knights Key, Fla




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Frederick Dunn and David Knight oral history interview




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Gardens and gazebo at the Peter O. Knight residence in Tampa




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[The The hurricane-damaged Gulf and Southern Steamship Company at the Hendry and Knight Terminal




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National Airlines plane at night at Peter O. Knight Airport




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Aerial view of Tampa, Davis Islands, and the Peter O. Knight Airport




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Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands




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Peter O. Knight Airport Administration Building, with airplane in front




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Airplane on the tarmac of Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands




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[An Aerial view of Peter O. Knight Airport]




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Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Island




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W.V. Robertson of Robertson and Fresh Commercial Photographers at the Peter O. Knight Airport




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An Eastern Air Lines plane at Peter O. Knight Airport