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Career Advice From a Vue Core Team Member
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Feb 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
? About the episodeMeet Ben Hong ??! Ben is a Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Vue Core Team member, Google Developer Expert, and teacher. After studying psychology at school, Ben picked up programming in his own time, making him one of the most successful self-taught programmers on the podcast to date! He joins us to share his best advice about learning to code and the many career benefits of getting involved with open source.? Connect with Ben
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⏰ Timestamps
Introduction (0:00)
Ben’s transition from psychology to programming (01:06)
Developer experience and why it matters more than you think (04:26)
Developer experience as a profession (05:25)
Ben is part of the Vue core team (07:08)
How Ben got involved in one of the biggest JavaScript open source projects in the world (07:53)
How to start with open source yourself (10:38)
Why Ben works so hard (16:21)
Passion vs. discipline as a profesional (18:36)
How Vue compares to React and other front-end tech (20:56)
Should you abandon React to learn Vue?? (23:27)
Ben’s best advice for anyone learning to code (25:27)
Quick-fire questions (29:36)
? Resources mentioned
Vue Mastery
Computed properties in Vue
Watch Ben code on Twitch
Learn to take notes in Obsidian with Ben
⭐️ Leave a ReviewIf you enjoy this episode please leave a 5 star review here and let us know who you want to see on the next podcast.You can also Tweet Alex from Scrimba at @bookercodes and tell them what lessons you learned from the episode so they can thank you personally for tuning in ?
? Website
?? GitHub
⏰ Timestamps
Introduction (0:00)
Ben’s transition from psychology to programming (01:06)
Developer experience and why it matters more than you think (04:26)
Developer experience as a profession (05:25)
Ben is part of the Vue core team (07:08)
How Ben got involved in one of the biggest JavaScript open source projects in the world (07:53)
How to start with open source yourself (10:38)
Why Ben works so hard (16:21)
Passion vs. discipline as a profesional (18:36)
How Vue compares to React and other front-end tech (20:56)
Should you abandon React to learn Vue?? (23:27)
Ben’s best advice for anyone learning to code (25:27)
Quick-fire questions (29:36)
? Resources mentioned
Vue Mastery
Computed properties in Vue
Watch Ben code on Twitch
Learn to take notes in Obsidian with Ben
⭐️ Leave a ReviewIf you enjoy this episode please leave a 5 star review here and let us know who you want to see on the next podcast.You can also Tweet Alex from Scrimba at @bookercodes and tell them what lessons you learned from the episode so they can thank you personally for tuning in ?
Released:
Feb 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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