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November 13th, 2020: What did you learn this week?

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.

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Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.

#todayilearned

Summarize a concept that is new to you.

And remember, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

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Lisa Armstrong

I'm getting smart about NPM packages etc.
Peter Jang's article is a brilliant guide.
peterxjang.com/blog/modern-javascr...

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Miguel Stevens

Learned that manipulating SVG and transforming into PNG is way harder than I thought.

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Thinking emojis floating around

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Chinwe Promise

I recently started learning Javascript. This week I learnt arrays, functions, DOM, Objects and method. Going forward, I stilll have a lot to cover.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome! Also, don't get overwhelmed by all the stuff to learn. Do it bit by bit.

  • Sarah Edo has a really great tool for learning array methods called Array Explorer. You can check out links to it in here Tweet
  • Microsoft just released a free Web Development for Beginners curriculum if you're interested.
  • I also have a bunch of resources that you may want to check out.
  • Lastly, follow the JavaScript tag if you aren't already

#javascript

<p>Once relegated to the browser as one of the 3 core technologies of the web, JavaScript can now be found almost anywhere you find code. </p><p>JavaScript developers move fast and push software development forward; they can be as opinionated as the frameworks they use, so let's keep it clean here and make it a place to learn from each other!</p>

Excited to see what you make with your new skills. Maybe even blog about it! 😄

Amy Poehler being cool

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Chinwe Promise

Thank you for the resources.

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Adam Van Hine

I learned how to use higher-order functions in Kotlin! Getting some good ideas for situations where they will be useful.

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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Daniel Alonzo

I learning a lot about how to be an remote developer!

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The More You Know NBC TV campaign video capture

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Grey_W I N D

Learning how to use CRUD and MERN...And phew bugs😢🤦‍♂️

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Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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isarisariver • Edited

media query transitions look much better if I add something like transition: 1s;

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Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Cesar Aguirre • Edited

I learned to always have a backup of your data and a backup computer. My laptop crashed and I almost lost my work from the previous 2 days

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Loki holding KFC

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Vicente G. Reyes

I learned that environment variables in react should be REACT_APP_ENV_VAR. It took me a few hours to take the documentation seriously.

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Dog from GoT with friend chicken

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Mikal Callahan

Learned about Google Places API and furthered my knowledge in Docker