News - Pg. 3
Boot.dev Beat. February 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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?
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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)
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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?
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've just launched our latest course, Learn Python.
All Coding Courses on boot.dev Are Now Free to Audit
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
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.
Boot.dev's Refer a Friend Program
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We think learning is better with friends! For every person you invite to join, you'll both earn some free gems. As soon as your friend signs up, we'll credit each of your accounts with, at the time of writing, 150 gems.
Functional Programming Course Released
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We just launched our new "Learn Functional Programming" course, and frankly, I'm a bit exhausted (more on that later). This course is an interactive code-in-the-browser course that teaches the basics of FP in JavaScript and PureScript.
"Learn Algorithms" Course Released
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've launched our new Data Structures and Algorithms course! We wrote this course for engineers who need a refresher on computer science basics or want to learn the fundamentals for the first time.
Announcing a "Basic Intro to Coding" Course in JavaScript
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The boot.dev app - our new gamified learning platform - just launched its first JavaScript coding course! This one is short, sweet, and to the point. We created a thirty-exercise, two-module course that caters to students who have never seen a single line of code before. That's right, this is a code-in-the-browser course for absolute beginners.
Boot.dev Launches Golang Crash Course - Learn Go
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We just launched the new boot.dev computer science platform and can't be more excited. Our first crash course in Go, "Learn Go" is now available! We teach students by allowing them to write, compile, and run backend code directly in the browser.
Cryptography Trends And News Going Into 2020
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Quantum computing may not be coming quite as fast as some in the field had certainly feared (or perhaps hoped). Google did, however, solve an impressive problem this year.
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The podcast is available here.
