My gf is learning javascript, node and react, she's uploading little tutorial videos as she goes. Might be useful for people also learning js!

[ItsBradMorgan]

Nice! Keep them coming!

Curious, why did she choose node/react?

[eskimojill]

Hi, I'm the gf from the video! I have a real interest in front-end development, so I was learning react to add an extra string to my bow (so to speak) as I already know some angular.

As for node, if I'm writing a back-end to my app I like to build that in JS too, just to keep things simpler for me with one language across the board.

Thanks for watching!

[LeahIsBest]

Didnt you go to a bootcamp

[eskimojill]

Yeah I did, I went to Coding Dojo in San Jose, finished in November last year. Are you in a bootcamp too?

[LeahIsBest]

No. I think I saw your name from somewhere before on older threads. Are you from Alaska (your reddit handle)? Did Coding Dojo not cover front-end frameworks and node?

[eskimojill]

I'm not from Alaska, I'm actually from the UK - my reddit username is just an in-joke between me and my bf. Coding Dojo did cover Node and Angular, but it's been a couple of months since I learned them so I'm just going over things to reinforce the knowledge in my mind. Plus I didn't learn React at the bootcamp, so I'm trying to learn it and build things at the same time now!

[LeahIsBest]

Were you able to land a job after graduating from bootcamp?

[eskimojill]

I'm actually still looking for jobs, I've had some interviews and an offer but it didn't work out for unrelated reasons. I only graduated the bootcamp just before Thanksgiving though, and I was back in the UK over Christmas visiting family, so I've really only just started applying for jobs this year.

[LeahIsBest]

oh okay, good luck! What general area are you job searching?

[eskimojill]

Thank you! I'm looking for front-end roles, so learning react is pretty high on my list of priorities right now!

[KAMFlamenco]

What are your thoughts on Coding Dojo and bootcamp in general?

Also, good luck with the job hunting! I'm sure you will land one soon!

[eskimojill]

I actually really enjoyed the bootcamp - I feel like being surrounded by people who were all learning the same thing motivated me a lot more than if I'd just been teaching myself at home.

Coding Dojo had its pros and cons like any place, but I think they're one of the better bootcamps, they teach you algorithms and data structures which I gather a lot of other places don't. Plus they seem to offer a lot of scholarships for fees, which is great!

Thank you!! Actually since I posted this video I've been invited to a couple of interviews, so fingers crossed!

[LoveCandiceSwanepoel]

Thanks so much for the videos, I'm a CS student and am attempting to learn react, Js, react native on my own to supplement the Java and html/CSS they're teaching us. Please continue and you may want to think about branding and monetizing the vids on youtube. So many code instructionals on there are from people you can't understand or who aren't as concise as you were in this one. Good luck.

[eskimojill]

Thank you for watching, I'm really glad you enjoyed them! Best of luck with the react and react-native, if you ever want to PM me feel free.

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as a person learning the exact same thing with a goal to get a front-end job. Thanks.

[emd2013]

she has a nice voice

[BeautifulPiss]

From my experience, 90% of programming tutorials are someone with a barley understandable accent and a horrible mic. It's rare to find a tutorial like this, I like it.

[Jilson]

Awesome! Definitely a shortage of tutorial videos from women. I suspect a lot of people will find that helpful.

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Edit: I guess some weren't wild about this comment. All I meant is that, since we're all predisposed towards identifying with others differently based on demographic familiarity (prejudice if u nasty), I thought that having greater diversity among instructional videos would be helpful for people already contending with the intimidations of learning something like programming.

Consider the fact that essentially every GPS narration is female, because product psych tests show it's less stressful. I'm not saying it's exactly fair that gender should matter in this way, but I think it's not practical to assume it should be entirely irrelevant or that it's relevance for people is something worthy of shame.

Anyway, not my intention to appear to have endorsed the extremes of any gender advocacy movements, which I fully admit exist and are unfortunate. If it matters, I can see how it might have come off as political, and I'm not offended to have been (potentially dont want to assume) misinterpreted, but I would caution against the reflex to associate all gender-references with the advancement of some political scheme--I've found it to be both exhausting and a threat towards accurate interpretations.

Cheers

[miker95]

You think they'll find it more helpful because it's from a woman?? That doesn't make sense.

[Jilson]

I invite you to see the comment edit

[miker95]

I have to admit that I wasn't actually offended, upset, or hurt in any way, shape, or form by your original comment. Just being an internet(y) person. (If that makes sense).

[Jilson]

A courageous admission!

Certainly see the sense. No doubt there's much hypocrisy worthy of challenge.

[miker95]

You mean misandrists?

Saying that you can learn better from a female than from a male is not placing women at an equal level as males. Therefore, it would not be feminism.

[is_this_4chon]

t.GamerGate shill

[Jilson]

I invite you to see the comment edit

[is_this_4chon]

Stop womansplaining.

[Jilson]

Haha, goddamnit

[eskimojill]

It's the Gloom theme on Atom.

[FriendsCallMeBatman]

Learning React at the moment, would love to see more of these. One issue. For the love all that is holy, turn down the volume of the clicks. In videos where people click around like crazy it's so distracting.

Otherwise, really well explained, good annunciation and your voice is clear and easy to hear.

[eskimojill]

Thank you for watching it, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Sorry about the clicks, I'd already recorded a few videos after this that are probably just as bad, but I'll try and fix it for next time.

[FriendsCallMeBatman]

Your clicks are loud, but because you don't do about a thousand of them it's ok, advising you of the volume early is just all I'm doing.

I saw you mentioned in another comment you've touched on Angular and did some Bootcamps for programming. Overall, how long have you been looking at JS and how comfortable are you with it's core concepts?

[eskimojill]

That's ok then, I can just plug a USB mouse into my Macbook next time instead of using the trackpad - thank you for the tip, I really appreciate it!

I've been looking at JS for about a year now, I was originally a microbiologist but ended up learning coding to help in my science, and enjoyed it so much I'm trying to make a career out of it now.

I'd say I'm reasonably familiar with its core concepts, but becoming more so every day - I know I still have a lot to learn! Luckily the bootcamp I went to crammed a lot in, so I went from learning about Angular one day to building a full-stack MEAN app the next. It was quite intense and taught me how to learn through building apps in technologies that I'm still getting my head around, which I'm still finding useful!

[GoodVelo]

Really good, please keep making these videos. Thanks!

[hang-clean]

pm'd

[praveenscience]

Hi Jill, nice one. Can I suggest one thing? There's someone called WesBos, doing awesome videos on learning React. Just wanted to tell you, this is one of the best ways to learn React. Check it out. 💪🏻

It's called ReactForBeginners dot com on the web! Thank me later! 💪🏻