[BAWD #58] Remote Jobs and CS50x 2022
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Welcome to 2022! I trust you’re had or having a great and refreshing holiday. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that you should be willing to take calculated risks this year if you want to make any progress.
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Product of the Week ✨
Deno Deploy is a distributed system that allows you to run JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly close to users, at the edge, worldwide.
Do check it out here or explore the Deno project.
Good Tidings 🔊
Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.
The prestigious CS50x course is now updated for 2022. CS50x will introduce you to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming with topics covering abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web programming.
Want to get a software engineering role this new year? Then you should check out this guide to get tips, tricks, and general advice on how to get into the tech industry.
Are you preparing for technical interviews? Then, you should check out this workshop on preparing for technical interviews for advice on resumes, interview strategies, and more.
Joe's Jobs curates the best roles at exciting startups and companies across product, engineering, design, open-source, and more.
Here’s a handy glossary that defines general machine learning terms and terms specific to TensorFlow.
Adora Nwodo has partnered with some folks to offer 15 Africans an opportunity to become professional DevOps engineers. So hurry now and apply here.
Want to learn how to build the future of global e-commerce with headless commerce APIs? Do check out the Commerce Layer developer’s hub or join the slack community.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
With the rise of the metaverse and NFTs, you should join the Haze Monkey Soceity to be a part of the new and growing African NFT community.
Dev Term of the day 💾
Database: This is an organized collection of structured information or data stored electronically in a computer system. Learn more here (text) or here (video).
Book Recommendations
All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.\
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear.
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.
Featured Tweets 😍
Sadly, I’ve been off Twitter, so I don’t have tweets to share. However, I’ll share some of my favorite videos from YouTube this week. Trust me; you might like them :)
⬇️: Destroying everyone else in Advent of Code 2021 Day 22
⬇️: From 2.8 GPA to Netflix Senior Software Engineer | Dev Stories
⬇️: Magnus Defeats Jan-Krzysztof Duda ||| FIDE WORLD RAPID AND BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP 2021
⬇️: Make anything shoppable. Anywhere. | Ecommerce Tech Summit '21
Quote of the day 💙
“Don't over-improve your weaknesses. If you're not good at something, work on it until it no longer prevents your progress, but the bulk of your time is better spent maximizing your strengths.”–James Clear
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