Coding all night
Earlier this year when I was on maternity leave for the second time I had a small “existential crisis” (as I’m sure many of us have when having children). What do I really I want to do with my life? I searched high and low for a new career option and found the Web developer path and I thought — oh this sounds really cool. From there I found the Technigo bootcamp and two months in, I love it.
Coding is kind of addicting though. I find myself not leaving the computer for hours when I’m stuck on a small coding error, chasing that rush you get from solving the problem and everything just works! You feel that you don’t have enought hours during the day, and it feels great to be loving what you do.
Since Technigo’s bootcamp is designed to be fast-paced and challenge you to learn new things daily you will be searching for tools to help you in your coding-journey. These are some of the great tools and tips I have found are helping me learn as much as possible.
Social media
Search for frontend developers and coders on Instagram and you find a LOT of great users that posts tips and tricks daily. Since you probably spend some time on Instagram anyways you might as well learn some cool things.
Coding Apps
Since I constantly feel there is so much more to learn I wanted to be able to learn on my phone when watching netflix, or lazy scrolling in bed during evenings. So I downloaded some great learning apps for code — for example Codecademy Go. There you can choose what language or framework you want to learn and you get excercises and explanations to work through.
Web apps
There’s an infinite number of helpful tools out there so I can’t name them all. But a few that has helped me thus far (except the basic ones like W3Schools and StackOverflow) and that you might not have heard of yet:
https://www.figstack.com/app/explain — A tool that explains pieces of code to you in a plain english. This is great when you need help understanding what pieces of code do and mean.
https://omatsuri.app/ — An open source browser app with useful tools such as keyboard event codes, fake data generator, and converter of svgs to react components.
https://responsively.app/ — Test how your website looks in any sizes and test scrolling behaviour or layout next to each other. A bit more visually exciting than using the inspector tool.
https://www.useblackbox.io — being able to search what you need to do and get an example in code to try out, in any programming language. Also available as a VisualStudio code extension.
https://colorhunt.co/ — dozens of color combinations and palettes with hex color codes.
There’s enough out there you could code all night if you want (but you probably shouldn’t.. )
Happy coding!