🌟 Welcome to Phase 3!

Today’s Topics

• Intro to Phase 3!
  • Back End and Front End classes have different class times and separate posts today.
• Schedule & Expectations
• Note-taking & Markdown
• Setting goals for Phase 3

🤨 What does “Advanced” Even Mean?

⚠️ And even for experienced engineers, their experience is limited to certain areas, and completely dependent on having had opportunities to develop that experience. What you don’t know will always outweigh what you do as long as you work in a field that moves as fast as tech does.

If that seems discouraging, see this great blog post by one of the most well-respected and influential developers out there right now.

Dan Abramov, Things I Don’t Know

📝 TODO for EVERYONE this week

• Learn markdown
• Pick a note-taking application that will let you take notes while you read and work. It’s important that it can properly format code blocks. Here are some options (but don’t spend too much time making this choice).
  • VS Code (with this option you could create a simple git repo with markdown files)
  • BoostNote
  • Notion
  • Typora
• Complete this Goals Reflection exercise

🔖 Resources for Everyone

Time Management

• The Pomodoro Technique for Time Management & Productivity
  • Zapier’s list of Pomodoro Apps
• Time Blocking
• Common Time Management Problems & Solutions

Tech Talks with Good Advice

• Rukia Sheikh-Mohamed, 5 Steps to Getting Unstuck
• Katrina Owen, How to Fail Without Being a Loser
• Tom Stuart, The Most Common Problem In Software Development And How To Fix It
• VLC An open source video player that gives you lots more control than YouTube does (like more playback speed options).

Markdown

• Markdown Guide
• Markdown Tutorial