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Negotiation

Give yourself a raise from day one.

Interview

Your days of nervous interviews are over.

Code Challenge Curriculum

Code Challenges are not only important for the interview, but they help us get familiar with code syntax and strengthen our problem solving. You are provided with a git repository that will take the role of a large workbook for these challenges and exercises. Tests will be provided for code

Cover Letter

This powerful 7-part cover letter will separate you out of the stack of resumes.

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Get your resume past software and into a real person's hands.

Resume

Get the proven resume framework that will help get you noticed.

How to Job Search

How to Job Search

Learn and practice our simple 5-step process for finding the right tech job online.

Likable/Likeable App

You are going to create a full stack application with user authentication created with Node, React, Express, Mongoose & Mongodb that allows users to log in and vote for their favorite spelling of your app. Feel free to use a different word. Requirements: * A user will see a login/signup page

Job Search Plan

Job Search Plan

Do these 3 things and you'll succeed in your job search.

Mongo Installation on Windows

To install and start Mongo on Windows, follow these directions: Follow the instructions on https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/ * After the program is downloaded, find the bin folder. (This is inside the mongodb program file that was installed). Copy the link to this folder. * Press windows and type

Networking

Breaking into tech can feel overwhelming if you don't know where to start. Thankfully, we've got just what you need.

LinkedIn

Why is LinkedIn so vital in the Career Prep process? It's actually pretty simple.

Impostor Syndrome

Impostor Syndrome

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Then you’ve likely already had a taste of this.

Your Story

Get clear about where you've been and where you're wanting to go.

Career Prep: What to Expect

Career Prep Featured

Career Prep: What to Expect

We've got the proven plan you'll need to confidently land your stepping-stone opportunity in tech.

Ugly Things API Documentation

The Ugly Things API is something we built to help students create web applications with a completely open API to use. Have fun! And don't get too crazy on it... The baseUrl is: https://api.vschool.io//thing[/] (Where is your actual name, i.e.: https://api.vschool.io/jonsmith/

Deploying MERN App to Heroku (using your Git Master Branch & MongoDB Atlas)

As of November 10, 2020, mLab will be shutting down its services. If you need to migrate your database to use Atlas from mLab, you are strongly recommended to use their tool to migrate to Atlas. Click here for instructions. The rest of the tutorial has been updated to integrate

isPalindrome

Write a function that takes a string and returns true if that string is a palindrome. For an added challenge, phrases with spaces and characters can be palindromes. "Eva, can I see bees in a cave?" would return true. Hints: reverseArray() reverseString() It may help to first write a function

Starting a Group Project on Github

Starting a Group Project on Github

When you start your group project you are going to need to create a repository that you can all work on together. This write up will instruct you on how to set that up and begin collaborating. First, go to Github and select New Organization Next, Select Free The name

It's a Start Up

You and 2 friends decided to start up a business. You know you need a website, but you're bootstrapping your business without external funding, so you can't pay someone else to do it. The type of business doesn't really matter, so get creative with it. This will be a static

Meme List Generator: Level 3 Group Capstone

Your group will make an app that satisfies the following user stories. It will be similar to what was completed in Scrimba, but will be done in VS Code and in a group using git: * A user will see a meme image on page load * A user can click "refresh

Arrow Functions

Arrow functions simplify the syntax of our traditional functions. They use symbols that make intuitive sense to help make our functions simpler. The old way of writing functions: const add = function(a, b){ return a + b; } With arrow functions, we can remove the function key word, and add an arrow

Import/Export

Before we would require npm packages or other files from our project. Now, we use the import syntax. import axios from 'axios'; Is the same as saying const axios = requre('axios'); We can also "unpack" only the methods or items that we need from the package or file. import { Component

Destructuring

As we've found, the easiest way to learn the new ES6 syntax is to see the old way of writing JavaScript. const expense = { type: "Business", amount: "$45 USD" }; const type = expense.type; const amount = expense.amount; ugh. So much redundancy! We have const, type, and amount written three times. Using

Object Literals

Object literal syntax is just a way to make our code look nicer. To show how to use this, we will just look at the old/uglier way of doing things, and then see the ES6/prettier way of doing things. There are three major ways object literals do this.