Career Advice
Life Advice: Strap on Those Running Shoes & Move Your Feet!Yesterday, we read a great post on Hacker News called “Move your feet.” In it, a developer named Matt Swanson detailed how he had set himself two goals for the year: one, to learn how to write tests for his Rails projects and two, to start running. Eight months in, he had read four books [...] Read more»
Skills
Frontend vs. Backend: Tech Terms You Need to KnowThe frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. Read more»
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Confusion is Your Friend: The Key to Success is LearningThe key to success is to embrace the confusion. Read more»
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The Key to Building an App: Learn What the Heck MVC Stands ForMVC stands for Model-View-Controller and it’s the most popular way to organize and separate the different functions of a web application. In MVC you have three parts of your app, each of which serves a different function. First, you have to define what each part of the web app is and how the different parts [...] Read more»
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Skillcrush Tech Term of the Day: Client-Side vs. Server-SideClient-side means that the action takes place on the user’s (the client’s) computer. Server-side means that the action takes place on a web server. So what do we mean by action? And why does some action take place on your computer and some on a server? When we say action we mean all that work [...] Read more»
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Skillcrush: Learn the Anatomy of an App with Skillcrush and InstinctThis week is an historic week for The Levo League on many fronts. One of them is our new collaboration with our friends Adda, Kate, and Jen over at Skillcrush (meet them here). These women have tirelessly devoted themselves to teaching you one new thing per day about the tech world. One of our favorites [...] Read more»

