JavaScript Air

We're going to talk about when we were beginners, some of the things we wished we knew, some of our biggest early days goofs, our suggestions for newbies, etc. We'll also talk about making the community open to newbies/what can be done to increase this.

• Links: LOGO programming and Unreal Engine
• Tips: Contribute to project docs!
• Picks: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR), Webpack Preset, Lady Dynamite on Netflix, and Keto (ketosis/ketogenic) diet

• Picks: You Don’t Know JS, Operation Code, Newbie Remote Conf, and Grokking Algorithms

• Links: Carte Blanche
• Tips: You don't have to be Dan or Ryan to get a job
• Picks: DLLPlugin and LookUp app

• Tips: Try to use npm scripts directly for your next project and not a build tool like gulp
• Picks: Overwatch

• Links: JavaScript and Robots with Raquel Vélez
• Tips: Learn one new thing every day (#eggheadADay) and The learning workflow: Consume, Build, Teach
• Picks: react-html-email and aphrodite

• Tips: Learn the language, learn the paradigms, then learn the libraries/frameworks and es5 is still huge. Perhaps start there and learn es2015 after.
• Picks: Orlando Shooting GoFundMe, YOW Lambda Jam 2016 talks, and Functional JavaScript

• Links: The Mess We’re In (talk by Joe Armstrong)
• Tips: Beginners: Don’t stay stuck for more than 15 minutes. Ask for help!
• Picks: Nand2Tetris, Nand2Tetris on Coursera, and Beyond the Resume: How to Get Your Next Job as a Developer

• Links: Software Engineering Daily podcast, episode with Kyle Simpson
• Tips: Everyone: take a walk every single day, and replace one drink a day with water and Beginner Devs: write your code as simply and verbosely as possible, to explain your thinking (or lack of it!) clearly. Don’t just emulate the clever code you see from others.
• Picks: SimpleHTTP2Server and demo, Brotli compression, and You Don’t Know JS, specifically Up & Going

• Picks: A re-introduction to JavaScript, Understanding ES6, Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years, On Spectrum of Abstraction, Making JavaScript Initialize Faster, HtmlWebpackPlugin, and Babel Plugin Handbook