Skillcrush

Education website for tech newcomers, veterans, and everyone in-between

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What Makes a Coder?

Coders aren't just Silicon Valley bros—they're women, LGBTQ+ people, men of color, and people with disabilities. Tech is for everyone.

The first in our new series, Who Codes, is live today! Check it out ;) 

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(via GIPHY) Check out our free Coding Victories gif pack! https://skillcrush.com/coding-victory-gif-pack GET THE PARTY STARTED 

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Maybe There’d Be More Stay-at-Home Dads If We Stopped Pretending It’s Not an Option

We just expect that women will stay home with children, but what if a dad is better suited to caregiving?

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The Hidden Figures effect: inspiring a new generation of women

Since its release, the film Hidden Figures has inspired female engineers and students alike – and made a valuable impact in the campaign to get women into science and technology

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The Hidden Figures effect: inspiring a new generation of women

After its initial release, the inspirational effect of Hidden Figures is still being felt around the world. “I just loved it,” says 18-year-old June Eric-Udorie, a UK-based student and campaigner. “I left the cinema and thought: ‘There has to be a way that I can open up access [to the film].’”

Inspired, Eric-Udorie set to work planning how to show more people the film. “I’d read about [Hidden Figures star] Octavia Spencer buying out a cinema and offering it to single-parent families and thought: ‘Well, I can’t buy out an entire cinema, because I don’t have that kind of money, but I can take two or three girls with me.’” She tweeted her intentions and an initially modest plan began to snowball. “I came back at the end of the day and there was £1,000 in my PayPal account.”

Eric-Udorie eventually raised enough money to put on a free screening in east London’s Genesis cinema for about 500 schoolgirls from low-income backgrounds. “There was also a panel of women of colour working in Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths], and every single girl who attended got a copy of the original book by Margot Lee Shetterly,” she says. “One girl said it was the first book she’d read in several years.”

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How Long Will It Take for Me to Learn How to Code?

Time is money, so we get why you want to know exactly how long learning to code takes.

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The 25+ Best Sites For Finding Remote Work

More than two dozen resources for finding the best remote jobs out there.

I mean, we all want to choose where we work from, right? 

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the fancy font

tumblr is getting fancy guys. just change your text editor on a new text post to html editor and copy this. post and you have 

<p class="npf_quirky" data-npf='{"subtype":"quirky"}'>fancy font</p>

fancy font

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Tumblr hacks :)

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Rethinking Self-Care

When is it just avoidance?

By Jean Boampong. Illustration by Izzy Ryan.

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Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in t...

Awesome!

Also, sounds like a way for them to seriously press for LetsEncrypt (which considering that more and more webhosts are enabling 1-click LetsEncrypt installs, is fucking Amazing)

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Thanks for this post! @lunacodes

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Really brilliant and helpful post by @ipstenu (Mike Epstein)

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Best part about the internet? Free resources ! 

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Moved on to learning about Flex Box today and wow–I have to say I am loving it! Though responsive web design is still a challenge for me, I have a greater appreciation for “shortcuts” like flex box and Bootstrap! I am excited to implement these new skills into my portfolio site. Here’s a snapshot of another class project with a basic flex box grid. 

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This looks great! From @laurenlovescode <3

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26/3/2017; 3 degrees celsius, clear skies. i was feeling the sun and the shadows on my desk this afternoon. pictured: black coffee, fruit water, viewegh, my mini planner from papelote, french vocab.

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desk shot

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loving this workspace by @justagirltryingtostudy

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25 More Free Resume Templates to Help You Land the Job

Not a designer but still want a unique, creative resume? We rounded up 25 free resume templates for Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Fire up your computer and land that job!

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Episode 576: When Women Stopped Coding

A lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. For decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed.

Women should be coding. Women are good at math. The gender divide is a problem we all need to solve.