Yeah, keep going with it. The first position to land is the hardest one, but after that, at least for now, it’s all downhill.

I’d say for 1 & 2 it depends. Are these website really simple HTML pages, or more complex? How’s your JavaScript? Have you made use of any popular JavaScript libraries like JQuery or Angular? A huge number of jobs are just line of business software, which is largely data driven dashboards and the like, so are you able…

Have you worked with the technology before, are you comfortable learning on the run? Imposter syndrome is very real in this industry and it is really easy to undervalue yourself. The only way you are every truly going to know what you are capable of is to try, so go for it.

NO I promise it was not hard to get through the HTML CSS sections JQuery ( it took me 2 days to get trough it all) was harder bc I was on my phone and I i am working through the JavaScript part now and thats hard only bc I am at my desk and supposed to be working but there is LOTS of help if you get stuck and need…

Definitely don’t let experience get in the way. Most of the people involved in CfA have a collaborative and mentorship mindset, so they’ll be happy to bring you into the fold and help you find ways to contribute. And, at least in my local brigade, many of our participants are relatively new to the industry...…

Don’t sell yourself short. I went to Code for Boston last February. There were many people with different level of coding skills and experience. There were even people with just a rudimentary coding skills, and they came up with a lot of interesting ideas. So just go to one of the meeting, see if any of the projects…

its ok, you apparently need to be able to put away $1,000 a month into retirement. I don’t know why it shows a breakdown-calculation. it should just go to a page that says you can’t retire

Me too! WTF? Apparently I might as well kill myself when I turn 67 instead of looking into what and how I can start saving now, at 34, making $18k a year. Thanks Fidelity for the vote of confidence.

As a developer I can say that one very key personality requirement for the job is the ability to fail far, far more times than you succeed and laugh about your mistakes. It is not the sign of a bad developer who has to take multiple passes at some code to get it to work.

You will learn these new skills as you go, so your limited experience will be fine.

I frickin love this stuff, even the trial and error parts of it. There is no better feeling than piecing together code and then seeing it work....except for the moment when you piece it together without even thinking about it! The fact that HTML has become second nature to me now and I don’t have to look up help at…

I believe that you will soon have a feeling about your chances of success. If you find that you enjoy the putting together of a piece of code just as much as you savor the moment it works, you’re cut for this. If you dread the error messages and getting to grips with the tiny bits you missed or misplaced, if you’re…

It has been extensively studied. I don’t have the links close at hand, but one study took fancy wine and cheap wine and swapped their bottles. The professional sommeliers’ ratings followed the label, not the wine. Another took white wine and dyed it red and not one of their professional subjects mentioned it at all.…

They seem to be following the same model as professional certifications do. For a lot of them, its not really planned that an end-user pays for the course, its planned that an end-user convinces their employer to pay for it. Corporations will pay crazy amounts of money for this stuff. However, thats usually not til…

Oh! That’s a great idea! I could do it with my U.S. mint silver proof sets!

That said, Udemy and Stack Social usually have deals going on, and while it’s usually specific courses on sale in bundles, they’ve recently had a sale on $10 any* course and that happens pretty frequently. Read the reviews on the courses first. Also check out Codecademy and Lifehacker’s own Night School series on…

It’s also worth checking with your employer if you think there’s a chance they might do tuition reimbursement or certification / training reimbursement if they can relate it back to your current job. I’ve had bosses before where just self-improvement / professional development was all the reason I needed. You have to…

No, no, no. You can “audit” the course for free, you just don’t get certain extras like professor interaction and some other stuff. I’ve actually taken 3 or 4 courses from here and the discussion forum is pretty interactive enough. Don’t worry about paying for it, I have yet to pay for a single course.

Meh. I’m pursuing a certification to add to my MA in order to break into a different field, and the cheapest program in the country is going to cost about $300 a month, not including textbook and the 225 unpaid internship hours I have to work. Education is expensive.