Boot.dev Beat. November 2022

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.

All the best, Lane

What we’ve done this month

1. Learn Docker course released

This course is a bit different. It’s packed with text-based walkthroughs as well as videos, and you’ll complete all of the steps on your own machine. After all, Docker isn’t a programming language, but a tool that’s invaluable to back-end and full-stack engineers.

Start the Docker course here

docker

2. New achievements added

We created new icons for all of our achievements, and we also added 6 new achievements:

Milestone: Master (480 assignments completed in total)
Milestone: Grandmaster (960 assignments completed in total)
Sharpshooter: Master (89 assignments correct in a row)
Sharpshooter: Grandmaster (144 assignments correct in a row)
Streak: Master (Complete an exercise weekly for 30 weeks)
Streak: Grandmaster (Complete an exercise weekly for 52 weeks)

Since we released them 2 weeks ago, we’ve already had students unlocking these prestigious badges!

milestone master

sharpshooter grandmaster

streak grandmaster

3. We are now an educational institution on Linkedin

We’ve been registered as an educational institution on LinkedIn, so you can now add Boot.dev to the “education” section on your LinkedIn profile. Additionally, I love to accept Linkedin connections from students. If you’d like to connect with me, you can do so after you’ve completed at least one course on Boot.dev. Just include a link to your Boot.dev profile in the connection request.

Here’s my (Lane’s) LinkedIn profile. You can follow me, then connect after you’ve completed at least one course.

4. Prepcards.dev

I was feeling like I needed to learn something new last weekend, so I decided to build a flash card game in Svelte and TypeScript. The purpose of the game is to help you prep for coding interviews by quizzing you on popular technologies.

It’s an open-source project, so feel free to play the game or contribute and add cards to it!

What we’re working on

Upgrading the “game” system. We want to re-introduce gems as a way to save your sharpshooter progress and buy boosts.
The next course we release will probably be “Learn Kubernetes”.
We want to do a major upgrade of the “Learn Functional Programming” and the “Learn Cryptography” courses.

Top picks from the interwebs

(Video) How to Get Started with Open Source | A Beginner-Friendly Guide

By YK (CS Dojo)

(Video) Please Stop Watching Tutorials

By Theo of Ping.gg

(Podcast) Running Containers at the Edge

By DevOps Paradox

Top plugs

Boot.dev Beat: October 2022 Edition

Oct 31, 2022 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

Sep 19, 2022 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)

Sep 13, 2022 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.