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How To Get Paid While Learning To Code preview

April 30th, 2022 ·22 min read

How To Get Paid While Learning To Code

Learning to code takes time, but that doesn't mean you can't get paid for being a coder while you're still learning... Here's 10 methods you can use, today 💰.

Andrei Neagoie

Career Advice

Web Development

How to Become A Freelance Consultant Today: Your 4 Step Guide preview

March 20th, 2022 ·15 min read

How to Become A Freelance Consultant Today: Your 4 Step Guide

Are you looking to start freelancing? In this article, we give you the 4 steps you can take to become a freelance consultant, starting today!

Paul Mendes

Career Advice

Web Development

Top 7 Soft Skills For Developers & How To Learn Them preview

February 14th, 2022 ·26 min read

Top 7 Soft Skills For Developers & How To Learn Them

Your technical skills will get you the interview. But soft skills will get you the job and advance your career. These are the top 7 soft skills all developers and technical people should learn and continue to work on.

Andrei Neagoie

Must Read

Career Advice

How Developers Can Use Excel to Accelerate Their Career preview

January 12th, 2022 ·10 min read

How Developers Can Use Excel to Accelerate Their Career

Spoiler: It doesn’t matter. If you want to be a great programmer, you need to change your mindset and stop thinking in terms of what is best to use. What wins? What will get you the highest salary? What is the best for the situation at hand?

Travis Cuzick

Data Analytics

Career Advice

[Full Guide] Learn To Code For Free in 2024 & Get Hired in 5 Months (+ Have Fun Along The Way!) preview

January 1st, 2022 ·32 min read

[Full Guide] Learn To Code For Free in 2024 & Get Hired in 5 Months (+ Have Fun Along The Way!)

Updated for 2024 (including A.I. & ChatGPT). In 2014, I taught myself how to code & got hired in 5 months. This is the step-by-step guide I used. Now 1,000s of other people have also used it to learn to code for free & get hired as web developers.

September 7th, 2021 ·10 min read

4 Reasons To Become a Freelance Programmer

Freelancing is in your future. Learn why you need to become a freelancer, how to start freelancing fast and cost-effectively, and how to land your first freelance jobs. Plus, how to quickly gain skills for the most profitable freelance jobs available.

Paul Mendes

Web Development

Career Advice

Can Anyone Learn To Code? 100%. And Here's The Exact Steps To Start preview

July 27th, 2021 ·24 min read

Can Anyone Learn To Code? 100%. And Here's The Exact Steps To Start

I'm going to convince you why you should learn to code, no matter what your background and take my fun, free 21-Day Coding Adventure for you to get started.

Cindy Lin

February 4th, 2021 ·19 min read

7 Ways to Earn a Side Income as a Developer

7 different ways in which you can leverage your web development skillset to earn an extra income on the side

Kyle Prinsloo

Web Development

Career Advice

Junior to Intermediate Developer in 7 Months preview

March 17th, 2020 ·18 min read

Junior to Intermediate Developer in 7 Months

There are so many articles about how to get your first job as a software developer, but once you’re there, what do you do next? These are the 7 most important parts of this process to go from a junior to intermediate developer.