Our Next Chapter: Firehose Joins Trilogy Education
Growing With You: Introducing Our New ReactJS Course
We’re launching our new ReactJS course to help you grow your career. This course condenses 1,000+ hours of learnings that we gained from teaching our own development team how to build our platform using ReactJS. The technical skills gap in today’s world is massive. That’s why we started Firehose over 4 years ago: to give…
How to Learn Web Development the Smart Way
You may have come across Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, AngularJS, JavaScript, and perhaps the “MEAN” stack — MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS — in your research of the different programming technologies. Newcomers will often gravitate towards learning only JavaScript — a single programming language — but it’s often mistaken as a shortcut to becoming a full-stack…
5 Web Development Blogs You Should Be Reading
As you learn the fundamentals of web development and look to enhance your knowledge, it’s important to scour the internet to see what other people are doing and saying. While it’s great to stay up-to-date on trends through magazines and books, web development blogs provide you with an abundance of fresh, free content. Blogs have become…
How to Craft a Web Developer Resume Recruiters Will Love
What should a resume look like and what should it include? Well, depending on who you ask you might get a slightly different answer. That’s because it represents different things to different people. It’s either a document that lists your work experience, or it’s a piece of paper that has everything you’ve ever done listed…
6 Wellness Tips For Current (and Future) Developers
When people think of developers, many people picture a person spending hours and hours, in a dimly lit room with a wall of computer monitors, writing code that will change the future. It’s true, there is no doubt that source code –– and us developers that write it –– have a massive impact on technology…
These Growing Tech Firms Are Hiring Web Developers
If you’re in the market for a new job, we’ve got some good news: lots of companies have open roles and are hiring web developers this summer! We understand this process can be daunting, so we’re here to help guide you. One of the best places to find web developer roles at new, rapidly growing…
Finding Your Developer Niche in a Crowded Space
The day has come; you’ve decided it’s time for a change and soon your unfulfilling job will be a distant memory. You’ve been following others as they find their own developer niche, and have officially decided it’s time to turn your dream career into your new career. As you venture down the road to becoming…
Alumni Q&A with SwitchUp: Biology Bachelor’s to Software Development
This interview was conducted by Erica Freedman, Content Specialist at SwitchUp. Yowon Yoon currently works for Raizlabs as part of their web development team. In college he studied Biology and Music, but felt not knowing how to code would hinder his professional future. Determined not to be left behind, Yowon kickstarted his coding education at…