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Challenges I Faced Starting Out As a Frontend E...

Challenges I Faced Starting Out As a Frontend Engineer

I was invited to give a talk at my college Yaba College of Technology to talk to the Ingressive Campus Community in my college. I spoke about the challenges i faced starting out in programming and leading up to being a frontend engineer.

shedrack akintayo

September 14, 2019
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  1. ➢ LIFE IN YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ➢ HOW I

    GOT INTO CODING. ➢ HOW I MANAGED SCHOOLING AND LEARNING TO CODE. ➢ CHALLENGES I FACED WHILE LEARNING TO CODE. ➢ HOW I MANAGED TO SECURE A JOB, WHILE STILL LEARNING AND ALSO IN SCHOOL. ➢ AT SOME POINT I WANTED TO DROP OUT, WHY I WANTED TO, AND WHY I DIDN’T ➢ HOW THE COMMUNITY HELPED ME GET BETTER. ➢ HOW I GOT MY FIRST REMOTE JOB IN MY FINAL YEAR. ➢ SCHOOL ISN’T EVERYTHING AT SOME POINT. ➢ PEOPLE I MET IN YABATECH THAT HELPED MY CAREER AND ALSO INSPIRED ME ➢ AS THE SPIRIT LEADS……. ➢ RESOURCES THAT HELPED ME LEARN CODING
  2. RESOURCES THAT HELPED ME LEARN TO CODE ➔ Freecodecamp.org ➔

    Codecademy.com ➔ Udemy.com ➔ Frontendmasters.com ➔ Google.com ➔ Pluralsight.com ➔ Udacity.com Intro to computer science ➔ Harvard university CS50 ➔ Exercism ➔ Project Euler ➔ Hacker Rank ➔ Codepen.io