003: Self-Taught Student Talks with Casey Bartholomew

What you'll learn

  • Valuable tips for maximizing your periods of inactivity and downtime
  • Getting the most out of local community college/vocational web development courses
  • The unique perspective of a fellow web development student!

Tweetables

  • 2:12  Casey discusses the events post-high school that led to him working in retail today
  • 6:08 Casey recommends one of Udemy’s most popular courses (I’ve been recommending it for months — there’s a reason it’s so popular!)
  • 13:30  Casey tells us his greatest obstacle while learning to code (it’s probably one of yours, too!) 

Self-Taught Student Talks is a sub-series of the LVEC podcast, highlighting self-taught students’ accomplishments. This week, we meet Casey Bartholomew, a self-taught front-end web development student juggling full-time work while learning to code. We discuss what he’s learned so far, what tools he’s using, and where he plans to go.

Other web development student communities mentioned

Learn To Code With Me
CodeNewbie
(note: both have excellent podcasts!)

Casey’s mentions

Colt Steele’s Complete Web Developer Bootcamp 
SoloLearn: Mobile Web Development Learning App

I’d love to hear from you and chat about your struggles and accomplishments as a self-taught web development student!

You can reach out to me:

On Twitter as @lavie_encode

On the La Vie en Code Facebook page

Or, via my Contact page

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What you'll learn

  • Valuable tips for maximizing your periods of inactivity and downtime
  • Getting the most out of local community college/vocational web development courses
  • The unique perspective of a fellow web development student!

Tweetables

  • 2:12  Casey discusses the events post-high school that led to him working in retail today
  • 6:08 Casey recommends one of Udemy’s most popular courses (I’ve been recommending it for months — there’s a reason it’s so popular!)
  • 13:30  Casey tells us his greatest obstacle while learning to code (it’s probably one of yours, too!) 

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