Hello Reader 😃

Welcome to another issue of The Scrimba Community Roundup.

This week is action-packed with 5 new hires in the Scrimba community, a new podcast episode, an intro to npm, and more!

Intrigued? Let's jump right in...

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TL;DR 📝

💥 New Hires: Anna, Robbie, Phil, Hsagarthegr8, and Jay

💥 Resources: Animista - CSS Animations on Demand

💥 Ask an Expert: Matias on an introduction to npm

💥 Podcast: Silvia reveals the similarities between learning to code and hiking Camino de Santiago

💥 Live-code Fun: Leanne and Michael code a weight converter

💥 LinkedIn Reviews: Austin Henline from LinkedIn joins us for a profile review session on YouTube

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New Hires 📣

Congrats to this week's many new hires! 🥳🏆

Jay started on Scrimba two months ago to pick up front-end development. “I never thought that Scrimba would help me land a role even before I graduate from the Career Path. Project-based learning has been helping me solidify the concepts I've learned.”

Jay shared some tips that helped him during his process:

Experience:

"The company I chose to go with has three interviews: HR screening, technical/live coding interview, and behavioral interview":

1. HR screening focuses on talking about your past experiences and other general things.
2. The technical/live coding interview discusses your technical experiences and the company's tech stack. They also assess your coding skills (Leetcode type of questions, unfortunately 😬)
3. The behavioral interview will try to see if you're the right fit culturally.

Tips:

1. Write a ✨ really good ✨ cover letter and resume.
2. If you're targeting an engineering role, depending on where you are, you might need to spend time practicing Leetcode type of questions.
3. Apply before you're ready.
4. Show them you're willing to learn 🎓

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Hsagarthegr8 has been hired by 🍏Apple as a UI dev. They have really enjoyed learning CSS with Scrimba.

Wow, working for Apple must be pretty cool and really competitive, so massive congrats there! 🎉

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Phil got hired as a software developer and has just signed the contract! 📝 👏

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Robbie has also been hired as a paid intern, with a chance to get hired as a developer. The company liked Robbie’s design skills and mentioned that this is something that CS grads often lack. Robbie thanks Scrimba for these 😃

If you scroll down from Robbie’s message, he has given some more info, so definitely worth a read!

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Anna has gotten hired as an intern for an international company. She starts in September with six weeks of training.

She says she is overwhelmed and anxious but happy. It’s all good…always a little bit scary to start something new, but we're sure you're going to fly! 🛫

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Fab Resource 📚

CSS animations are fun but can be tricky to create when there are so many attributes out there to include. That's why Ana Travis created animista.net, an interactive playground to create complex CSS animations with just the click of a few buttons!

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Ask an Expert 💻

In next week's Wednesday stream, we are delighted to be joined by Scrimba developer Matias, who'll give us an introduction to npm (Node Package Manager).

We'll talk about:
💜 What is npm and what can we do with it?
💡 Getting started with npm
💻 Installing modules
💜 The essential npm commands
💡Searching for and choosing packages to download
💻 Saving modules to a package.json
💜 Global modules
💡 Common errors with npm
💜 npm security
💻 Using deprecated packages
💜 npm vs yarn
💡 The best npm packages
💻 Dependencies" and "devDependencies"
💜 npx

Set a reminder 🛎️ to join us this Wednesday, August 31st at 5pm BST to hear Matias' tips, tricks, and resources for all things npm.

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Scrimba Podcast 🎙️

Meet Silvia Piovesan 🇮🇹! Silvia is a Scrimba student who recently got four job offers after four different interviews. But her success didn't come overnight! Silvia used to be a project manager in the pharmaceutical industry - where she first got interested in coding. After she got laid off (and became a mom!), she wanted to learn to code so that she could become a knowledgeable project manager in IT... before realizing that she actually wanted to code!

​In this episode, Silvia reveals what's the similarities between learning to code and hiking Camino de Santiago, as well as her approach to learning and finding a job as a new developer. Alex and Silvia also discuss goal setting, and why it's not a good idea to give your 100% every day.

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Live-code Fun! 💜

This week, Leanne and Michael coded up a weight converter! ⚖️

They looked at:
⚖️ Adding inputs for the weight values
⚖️ Converting weight values using JS
⚖️ Rounding the results
⚖️ Reversing the conversion
⚖️ Converting US🇺🇸 to UK🇬🇧 units!

​Watch the stream to see how this challenge weighed on them! 🏋️

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LinkedIn Reviews

On September 7th, Leanne will be joined by Austin Henline from LinkedIn for a profile review session on YouTube! 💼

If you would like Austin to review your LinkedIn page, please complete this form.

NOTE: The deadline to submit your profile is Tuesday, September 6th.

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Meme of the week 🤡

Have a funny coding meme you want to share? Drop it into the #random channel in the Scrimba discord community for a chance to have it featured in a future issue of the Community Roundup!

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Wrap up 🐈‍⬛

It's time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets!

Sergio's adorable cat is doing his code review and, in typical cat fashion, is judging quite harshly 😾

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Thank you for reading, everyone! Have a lovely week, keep calm 🧘 and Scrimba on 💻🦾

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Alana 🐾👩‍💻🎾

Leanne ☕️👩🏻‍🔧🐱

Your Scrimba Roundup Team

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