These three crucial strategies to becoming a programmer are to help change your mindset, dispel fear, and become the programmer you want to be.

When something like a personal crisis or a global pandemic such as the notorious coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) occurs, a war is waged on our concentration. Here are three ways to shift your mindset during a personal crisis to get through it stronger than ever.

Self-taught coders are getting more prevalent, and this trend will only continue with the 2020 coronavirus. If you are learning at home, consider these mistakes that self-taught programmers make.

Learn the surprising differences between Eloquent Javascript 3rd edition and 2nd edition. Be fully informed.

To crack the code interview, you need to realize a test is all the coding interview is, and to crack it, you need to study to pass the test.

I took the guesswork out of the search for free programming books by compiling highly-regarded, free books on front-end web development.

As programmers, our primary job is to be a problem solver (or problem creator, depending on how you look at it). But many of the skills we learn on the job are also skills we can apply to other areas — like our own lives.

What’s the difference between Pragmatic Programmer 2000 and 2020? If you own the first edition, is the new 20th-anniversary edition even worth buying?

You Don’t Know JS Yet: Get Started should not be called Get Started. Its truer title is “Under the Hood,” since the entire idea behind book one of the series is to lift the hood, point out the components, and highlight idiosyncrasies in Javascript.

The truth is, with an internet connection, you do not need to pay a single penny to become a self-taught, quality programmer. If you can get everything for free, why buy a programming book?

There is a technical book — a book with cute illustrations and diagrams of cartoon animals — that allowed me to ace a notoriously-difficult class of computer science core curriculum.

So you want to know how to study technical books (like computer programming books), quickly and efficiently, so that you actually learn something. It seems simple, but it really isn’t.

I was talking to an old high-school friend, when he said something I could never forget:

Everyone knows HTML.

I’ve been a front-end web developer for several years, and if you’re thinking about entering the vast career of front-end development, you might be wondering… Are front-end developers happy? Do they find fulfillment? Joy? Meaning?

I have an answer, but are your ready to hear it?

In this post, I cover programming books of all kinds, including books on programming languages, books on best practices, and a fun computer science book, too. So relax in your favorite spot, brew a hot beverage, take a long, mindful sip, and let’s talk about books for programmers.

Learning more technical skills is an obvious resolution for software engineers. But what if you don’t need that, but a career refresh instead? There is a book for that, and it is specifically for programmers, hallelujah!

The challenge for front-end developers is often overcoming the plateau or knowing what to do next in 2020. It was with this mindset that I stumbled across the Front-end Developer Handbook 2019.