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Allo, welcome to dev.to :)
I'm sure someone's going to recommend Sandi Metz OOP books because they're great, so I'll go with David Bryant Copeland's Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap, Second Edition. This book really gave me a solid foundation of working with the front end and Rails, as well as a ton of Postgres tips, both general and specific to Rails. I recommend it as a book for anyone finishing a bootcamp and plan to stick with Rails.
Robert Martin, Clean Code.
It completely changed how I thought about code and started me on this journey of discovery.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python is a classic, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to get into or expand their understanding of the language! :)
Nice, do you think it's readable for someone who doesn't know Python, but knows a similar language (Ruby, JS, etc)?
Oh wait, I just realized I totally misread your comment...
Great tip, thanks.
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Hey friend :)
Welcome welcome!!
Hi there,
My name is Paige and I'm back in the SF Bay Area after spending five years in France and Denmark.
I'm a Computational Linguist with data-science leanings. I work remotely for a Paris-based startup that is building an ecosystem of language tools.
I just finished a master's in the social sciences with a slant towards data analysis. In a past life, I taught university-level English and translated mobile apps. I spend my idle hours as a craftsperson. Feel free to peruse my portfolio for some of my creative and intellectual undertakings: somepaiges.net
After several years of freelancing, I'm pretty sick of WFH and would love to put down some roots. I'm looking to branch out and eventually find a full-time role in SF as a junior Product Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Scientist or Product Manager. I love NLP and data-driven storytelling. Jupyter/Python/Pandas/NLTK/spaCy and sometimes R.
Interested in garage-band startups, companies with a transatlantic foothold, mission-driven products, lifelong learning and growth opportunities.
Welcome Paige! Great to see another Jupyter-loving data scientist coming on board, we're definitely short on #jupyter posts so looking forward to seeing some stories along those lines. There's also a lot of #career posts you might be interested in checking out. What made you decide to go from freelancing to full-time though? I've always wanted to go the other way (full-time to freelancing) and just interested to know why someone would go the other way.
P.S. Love the tiger travel photos by the way! Used to do a lot of bokeh shots myself :)
Hi Wei Ji,
Great to hear from you! Thanks for the recommendations and props.
I've been freelancing for awhile because I was very attracted to the digital-nomad lifestyle: i.e., I wanted to live abroad but still work jobs that were relevant for the SF Bay Area. It was a great experience. I was able to learn two foreign languages and see, smell, hear, taste and experience a great deal of new things.
I'd love to see some of your bokehs!
Yeah the nomad lifestyle is definitely something I'd like to experience at some point. Did you find it hard learning two new languages? I felt like I picked up Spanish well enough before in South America but not sure if it applies to other Latin-based languages in Europe. Trying to apply for a student exchange to Austria next year (fingers crossed!) so that's why I'm asking :)
Not a perfect bokeh but here's one I dug up from my rusty archive:
I like it. It is soft-spoken yet speaks for itself.
I didn't find it hard to learn two new languages only because I'm entirely passionate about foreign languages. Spanish is helpful but not necessarily for German lol. You'll find some common threads but not as many as you would between Spanish and French for example... You never know though—sometimes a random skill can come in handy at an unlikely, opportune moment.
Also crossing my fingers for your exchange next year!
Yes it's funny how languages work aye. Best way is always to just immerse yourself into a foreign country! Anyways, thanks for your thoughtful comments and once again, welcome to dev.to :D
Hi, Paige.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s very inspiring to read as an aspiring freelancer. Hopefully I have an opportunity to travel as well. Welcome :)
Thanks Sharon! Welcome to you too. What are you interested in and what brought you to dev.to?
I want to connect with like-minded individuals and figure out my way around freelancing/working remotely/working abroad—hopefully getting advice from people with experience similar to yours when I’m at that stage. So, networking is the short answer. 😊
Welcome to dev.to, Paige! Nice to have you here.
Happy to join
Welcome welcome welcome!!!
Hi everybody! I'm a junior developer from Scotland, been programming about 10 months now and working as a developer for about 3. I work in .net and PHP/JS at work but at home I dabble in a bit of everything. As I'm self taught I'm trying to follow one of the P1xt guides to set myself up really well for the future.
The number one resource I'd recommend is CS50. I think that's single handedly responsible for getting me a dev job. Fantastic lectures by a great teacher with interesting and challenging assignments!
I too recommend CS50. That course was highly informative and entertaining. Made me wish I could have attended Harvard and gone in person. David Malon was a great instructor. It was the perfect introduction to computer science.
Thank you for that recommendation. I’m definitely checking it out. 👍
edx platform as a whole is pretty swell.
Hi there,
My name is Monika and I work as front-end and hybrid mobile developer in a small company in Skopje. We work mainly with marketing agencies and the projects are interesting, short, but with very tight deadlines as well.
I like contributing to open-source society, and also experimenting with cutting-edge technologies.
Currently, I am starting my master studies for Software Engineering and also looking forward to learning Ruby on Rails and Python.
Happy to join!
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I'm Full Stack Engineer working all the stuff with Javascript, Node, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Jest, Enzyme etc.
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I'm Casey. I'm 18 and from England. I've been programming for around 4 years now and am mainly interested in neural networks and machine learning.
I'll be starting uni next year so am in the middle of applications and interviews right now!
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My name is Brhane. I am currently working as "Threat Analyst - Cybersecurity analyst" in the stream of most open source projects.
I am here to share and learn what is in the world of programming and development. I am interested in python, and Javascript. And also frameworks such as Django, VUE, and other more staffs.
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