Chingu Weekly vol. 32
Grab a delicious beverage, turn on some funky James Brown music, and enjoy this week’s update!
News & Random
— WELCOME ALL 13 NEW COHORTS that joined us this past weekend! Honey-Badgers, Chameleons, Sloths, Tapirs, Red-Pandas#3, Bearded-Dragons, Armadillos, Dolphins, Llamas, Elephants, Pumas, Platypus, and Kiwis!! Around 600 people who share similar goals have decided to come together to learn, help and build together. Can it get any wild than this?!
— Congratulations @nickolaos for getting your new dev job!
— Good luck Nionata at starting your Industrial Engineering Internship at Lockheed Martin this week!
— Congratulations @jayu for FINISHING EVERY SINGLE FREECODECAMP PROJECT!!! @genest will I be adding your name here next week too?! ;p
—Congratulations David Jordan (@fentablar) who just received his Front-End Cert after 100 days!
— P1xt is back with another challenge called Frontend Web Dev Challenge #1! Also, P1xt shared a React Virtual Hackathon coming up later this month. Check it out here.
— Chingu now has a Twitter account!
— Massive thanks to the new Cohort-Leads who are pioneering a whole new level of remote dev facilitation! buoyantair commented that the Cohort-Leads may end up being “the secret sauce” of Chingu, and after only a few days of the new cohorts and a flood of refreshing new ideas, I have a feeling she’s right. :)
— I just got confirmation this week, Chingu’s first Moonshot project is completely finished and will get a proper launch in mid-July. I CANNOT WAIT FOR YOU ALL TO SEE THIS!
Overheard in Chingu (weekend launch edition)
“In my dream reality I’d captain my very own starship.”
“maybe we can compare ugly code when I’m done mine :slightly_smiling_face:”
“I am a former Reactor Operator on nuclear powered submarines turned game designer turned customer experience manager and now turned freelance developer.”
“I found and started on FreeCodeCamp’s curriculum in November 2015, but a lot of my time since has been dedicated to curling up and crying in the corner after crashing my browser with endless while loops and such. However, I’ve been persistant. I read some books, took some courses, did some tutorials, and managed to build some of the frontend and backend projects. Now I only cry once a week.”
“I’m a learning addict ( does that exist? :p)”
“Fatherhood means a lot of my interests are subordinate to my daughter’s. I spend as much time as I can with her. Watching her learn and grow is a true joy of mine.”
You can see more “Overheard in Chingu” here. If people like it, we can make it a weekly thing! :)
Shoutout & Showcase
@NinoMaj & @wojryba — Wojciech Ryba and @ninomaj finished this gorgeous BUILD-TO-LEARN Momentum chrome app project!
@trion — A little awhile ago Parminder Singh made this NativeAgent (which he playfully named NaiveAgent), which is a Machine-Learning program that learns to play this old school video game BY ITSELF. ;p
@buoyantair — buoyantair wrote an article called Webpack for Newbies!
@kornil — Kornil is back with Part 2 of hit Git article series How To Not F-up Your Local Files With Git Part 2!
@hourglassdev — Hourglass Dev created this great full-stack app called Dividr, a quick dividing tool to making cooking easier!
@pkh1162— @pkh1162 has finished the Front-end P1XT challenge! You can see it here (damn that’s a gorgeous animation).
@icartuscrimea — SOOOO last week we had an AMA with QUINCY LARSON and Traci Cremeans has written an article with the transcript for anyone who missed it! You can check it out here. :)
@frenata — @frenata made this wonderful tutorial called Test Driven Design 101.
@amir — Amir Fakheraldeen has FINISHED the FCC Speedrun completely! Check out his Phase 2 project here and the article he wrote here. It should be noted that when Amir started the FCC Speedrun he didn’t know Vue, and a month later he built an entire portfolio with ALL his FCC Speedrun projects included in the app. My goodness!
@gsuxlzt — Congratulations Jami Carangan who made a fake-news blocker chrome plugin that was FEATURED ON CNN!
@vera — Veronica Mihai is back with another great article, this one called Let’s Talk About the Future!
@mleepee — M. Lee Pee wrote an article called YDKJS Async ,Callbacks, and Promises, Oh My. She’s writing articles on the YDKJS series and you can see all her articles here.
Chingus of the Week
This week (and every week really, as without these people none of this would be happening right now) the honors go to everyone who has supported Chingu and helped us get to where we are today.
Last summer when I received a refund from the “Harvard of coding bootcamps”, I had a choice to make with where to invest that money.
A month into starting the Chingu cohorts and I knew where that bootcamp refund was going to be invested. Though the cohorts will likely never recoup that initial financial investment, that’s fine because it was never the point. What we’re building is more important. That being said, I can’t adequately express how much it means that so many people have pledged to support our rambunctious collaboration ecosystem’s continued existence.
Jonathan, James, AstroLabs Dubai, Ramesh, Daniel, Rok, Jim, Nish, Joseph, Cameron, Jason, Claudio, Mayur, Hurleyboards LLC, Oluwadamilare, Webfound, Carlos, Bianca, Shaven, Scanned, Alexandru, Gillian, Scott, Gordana, Jay, Richard, Valerie, Clarence, Joe, Darko, Kealy, Anton, Seong, Traci, Thomas, Jeff, Andre, Zeprofen, Diemano, Joe, Vampiire, Vladamir, Jonathan, Soren, Jack, Caravdv, Dondra, Rane, Jennifer, Jeremy, Emre, Cyril, Silvana, Mark, Marin, and Sze Wai.
The above are the many who have donated to Chingu via Paypal or the Patreon page, but many others have helped in other ways deserve to be thanked as well. Pretty much every day now we get a message from a team or someone who has an idea to help the cohorts in some way.
p.s. It only feels right that the first use of the above generosity went to buying the CHINGU.IO domain name last weekend! If we end up getting the Virtual Hackathon going, more will go towards the rewards as well.
Quote to Go
“If you want to do something: *Do it*.
If you see an opportunity for improvement: *Speak up!*
If you want to join a project but feel inadequate: *Join anyway*. You wont be alone. You’ll learn so much and you may be surprised and how difficult/fun it is to work on projects and you may build something amazing!Utilize your cohort leads. They have been carefully selected to help guide you—” — Alecia
“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
— Edsger W. Dijkstra (posted by Kenneth Amanfo Junior)“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” — Tim Berners-Lee
