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The AI Engineer Path has dropped 🔥
Kick-start your career as an AI Engineer, one the most in-demand technical roles these days.
No maths or ML background required. All you need is basic frontend dev skillz.
Retweet for a chance to win an annual Pro subscription ($180) 🎁
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CSS Grid is amazing.
Just by adding a single line of code, this image grid becomes fully responsive 🤯
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Computer vision in the browser in less than 10 lines of JavaScript 🔥
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🔥 My free 7-hour beginner JavaScript course is finally OUT!
It is IMHO the most interactive JS course ever recorded, with 140+ challenges.
To celebrate, I'll give a 1-year
@scrimba
subscription (worth $150) to a random person who retweets this tweet 🎁
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We just crossed one million users at Scrimba 🥳
Thank you so much to every single one of you! 🙏
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Hey all developers!
We've teamed up with
@freeCodeCamp
's brilliant instructor
@CarnesBeau
and created a free 34-part course on regular expressions at Scrimba 🚀
As always, it's 100% 🆓!
Please RT if you think your followers might be interested in it:
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We are looking for a remote web dev instructor to join our team 👩🏫
💰 $80k-140k
📈 Stock options
📄 Full-time or part-time
🏖 30 vacation days per year
Here is how a typical day in your life will look like if you start working at
@scrimba
👇
🧵
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Far too many people give up on web development because they are introduced to it via boring theoretical courses 🥱
So I've spent the last few months creating a free HTML & CSS course that tries to eradicate all the boring parts of learning to code.
🧵
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I'm happy to announce that
@scrimba
is a part of
@ycombinator
's Summer 2020 batch 🎉
It's been an intense experience that has drastically accelerated our progress.
We're now a profitable 5-person company, and I don't think we've ever been as motivated and aligned as we are now.
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Very happy to share that we just passed 700.000 learners on Scrimba today 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you so much to every single one of you! 🙏
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I just launched a free course which teaches you React.js through building a chat app! 🚀
It contains 19 interactive screencasts packed with knowledge.
Check it out if you're interested or RT if you think your followers might be:
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I love MDN Web Docs and use it constantly. But I know beginners often struggle with it.
Which got me thinking... what if they embedded scrims directly into their articles so that you could get video explanations in addition to the textual ones?
Would that be helpful for you?
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I'm beyond excited to announce that
@scrimba
is partnering with one of the world’s leading AI companies:
@huggingface
🤗
Together, we'll teach web developers to utilize open-source AI models in their apps 🔥
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We just hit a half a million users on
@scrimba
🥳
Thank you so much to every single one of you! 🙏
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My HTML&CSS course is now live on
@freeCodeCamp
's YouTube channel 🥳
HTML and CSS form the backbone of the websites you know and use every day.
So if you want to be a web developer, you should learn how to use them.
In this course, you'll learn HTML & CSS from
@perborgen
, CEO of Scrimba, so you can start coding websites.
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Create an AI agent in 14 lines of JavaScript 🔥
This tiny app takes in a user question, queries Google for up-to-date info, and then uses a calculator to perform math operations if needed.
Let's learn how it works 🤓
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We just launched a new
@scrimba
homepage, where we try to better describe our mission 🚀
In short, our goal is to give you the quality of a coding bootcamp at the price of a gym membership.
Let's have a look at how we intend to achieve that 👇
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In 6 days, I'm launching a 🆓 7-hour JavaScript course for beginners🔥
I've been dreaming of creating this one for years, and have spent the last 4 months recording it.
It is IMHO the most interactive JS course that's EVER been recorded.
Sneak peek👇
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Next time someone tells you they're too old to learn to code, tell them about Len 👇
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Driving from LA to SF this week. Found a really nice place to squat in front of my rental car.
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You can learn basic HTML in a few hours, basic CSS in a few days, basic JavaScript in a few weeks, and become a hireable junior developer in a few months.
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I'm happy to announce that
@scrimba
is partnering with GitHub Education to help students all over the world write their first lines of JavaScript 🚀
Check it out here 👇
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We've launched a free 12-part course on Flexbox at
@scrimba_com
! 🚀
All the screencasts are interactive so you can play around with the code whenever you want 👩💻
Hope you like it, and happy coding!
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To all of you who are under 50 y.o. but still worried that you are too old to learn to code:
David (50) lost his job due to covid last year, so he started teaching himself how to code via online courses.
This week, he’ll have his first day as a professional frontend developer.
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We're having our second-ever
@scrimba
retreat in London this week 🇬🇧 Such a great feeling to hang out with the team and work side-by-side again!
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Six
@scrimba
students hired so far this week! 🎉
Looking for React JS developers? Send me a DM and I'll connect you with someone from our community.
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Let's create an image object detection app by running an AI model directly in the browser 🔥
This means you won't have to pay for any third-party APIs. Your app will be 100% free!
And it's all done with just a few lines of JavaScript 👇
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The only way to become a good developer is by first being a bad developer.
So don’t worry if your projects are buggy and your code looks like spaghetti.
It just means you are on you way to becoming a good dev.
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Want to learn CSS Variables? I've created a free 8-part course at
@scrimba_com
🚀
All the screencasts are interactive so you can play around with the code whenever you want 👩💻
Check it out here:
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This year's Christmas present from
@scrimba_com
to you is a free course on neural networks in JavaScript 🎁
It's been created by the brilliant
@robertlplummer
, who's the lead developer behind Brain.js, which the course centers around.
Merry Christmas 🎅
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Course launch 🚀
We've teamed up with
@bobziroll
at
@VSCHOOLHQ
and created a 🆓 course on React at
@scrimba_com
. It's huge, with 48 chapters in total, and it's also filled with interactive challenges.
Please RT if you think your followers might like it!
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Over the last 2 years, our product team has worked around the clock to build the next version of Scrimba. We're soon ready to share it with you, and we think you'll LOVE it.
Leave your email here if you'd like to be among the first to get beta access 👇
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In a time where people skip learning technical skills because of AI and spend their time watching TikTok videos, the ability to deeply focus on learning hard stuff is a superpower.
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Took the train from SF to Palo Alto yesterday and ended up in a conversation about startups with an early-stage investor and a founder. Neither of us knew each other from beforehand. After a while, it turned out that BOTH of them were
@scrimba
users! 🤯
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Just interviewed a
@scrimba
student who went from believing he’d never get a job as a developer to making $100k+ per year at Activision a few months later 🤯
So if you’re feeling lost, remember that tons of people had the exact same feeling right before their breakthrough.
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🔥 How to get started with AI as a web developer
In this thread, you'll learn to build a simple web app that uses GPT-3 to suggest superhero names for you pet.
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We're looking for new teachers to create career-related courses for us
@scrimba
(e.g. job search strategy, portfolios, resumes, LinkedIn, networking, interviewing etc).
Who would be the best teacher(s) for this in your opinion? Let me know 👇
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Sooo.. do you want to get this superpower?
If so, I just launched a free and interactive 7-hour JavaScript course for beginners.
You can check it out here 👇
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Dear international founders 👋
Never ever use PayPal to collect payments. They'll force you to pay a 3% fee to withdraw your funds. A fee that American accounts don't have to pay.
Please RT so that we can get as many founders as possible to avoid this tax 🙏
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Very pleased to see that exactly 100K people visited this month! 🚀
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I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by
@ossia
on the
@freeCodeCamp
podcast.
We talked about learning to code, the story of
@scrimba
, the emerging field of AI engineering, and how aspiring devs can use AI to break into the tech industry.
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This is probably the most comprehensive React Router course ever created. You get all of this for free 👇
* 121 interactive lessons
* 50+ coding challenges
* 8+ hours of content
Recorded by one of the most popular React teachers ever,
@bobziroll
🐐
It's
@scrimba
course launch day 🚀 My new React Router 6 course is now available 100% FOR FREE on Scrimba!
Because we're excited, we're giving away a free year of Scrimba Pro to a ☘️ lucky ☘️ someone who retweets THIS initial tweet. Go ahead, I'll wait ⏱️🙂
About the course 👇
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Over 3.5 billion people use apps powered by JavaScript.
But only about 12 million developers know how to write JavaScript.
That's 0.3%.
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Camelia just got her first dev job🥳
However, she didn't pay $15k on a bootcamp.
And she doesn't owe $30k to an ISA.
Instead, she learned to code and changed her life for $200.
So don't let anyone fool you into believing that you must pay thousands of dollars to become a dev!
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This week, Scrimba v2 will transition from closed beta to open beta. Looking forward to that!
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Ran my second-ever 10km race this weekend! Here with my good friend
@Munterpipe
(right). We both ended at exactly 51:20 🏃♂️
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Woohoo! August was a new all-time low for our monthly customer churn. It ended up at ~6%, which is down from almost 18% last year 🥳
How did we do this?
1. Went all-in on community 👨👨👧👧
2. Got students to commit to longer plans🗓
3. Continuously improved our product 🛠
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CS graduates from Stanford/MIT/Harvard etc get far too much credit.
Just think about it: they had the best support system in the world to help them.
It’s much more impressing to see self-taught devs break into the industry without any support system at all.
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This is definitely the most comprehensive and interactive free course we have ever launched 🚀
It's 11+ hours long, and contains 100+ coding challenges spread across 8 projects 🔥
Created by our amazing teacher
@bobziroll
👏
Course launch 🚀
My brand new 11-hour-long Learn React for Free course is now live! 🎉
To celebrate, I will give away a one-year
@scrimba
Pro subscription (worth $150+) to 3 lucky retweeters of this tweet! 💝
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Pretty stoked that the most popular framework for building AI apps has chosen
@scrimba
as the platform for teaching AI engineering to the world! 🥳🥳🥳
I am happy to announce that Scrimba has entered into a partnership with LangChain, one of the most popular libraries for building AI-powered apps 🔥
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Last month,
@scrimba
students spent a total of 20 years learning on our platform.
Here's how that stat has been developing since day one 👇
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The teacher team at Scrimba has been putting in some serious hours lately, and for good reason...
Next week, we’re finally launching The AI Engineer Path 🔥
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If you want to become a web dev in 2022, this video is for you. It goes through everything you need to know about:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- React (or equivalent)
- Web
- Tools
- Performance
- Data structures & algorithms
- Testing
- Software design
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3 days until we're launching The AI Engineer Path 🔥
Here's a sneak peek at some of the things you'll learn.
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Do you want to learn JavaScript? Then today's your lucky day!
The eminent
@PizzaPokerGuy
just launched a 🆓 24-part JavaScript course at
@scrimba_com
🔥🔥
So check it out if you're interested or RT if your followers might be!
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I recently discovered Bulma, a super-neat CSS framework by
@jgthms
which I think deserves more attention. So we're planning to create a
@scrimba_com
course on it.
Here's a quick tutorial which gives you a small taste of it:
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And finally, who am I?
I am a frontend developer who have taught hundreds of thousands of people how to code through
@scrimba
.
When I'm not coding, I enjoy skiing, eating ramen soup, and posing in front of fast cars.
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This week, four
@scrimba
students got their first jobs as software developers 🥳
What's cool is that they all live in different countries:
- The Netherlands 🇳🇱
- United States 🇺🇸
- Germany 🇩🇪
- England 🏴
Next goal: four students from four continents in one week 🌎
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Are you a teacher who would like free access to
@scrimba
Pro?
Leave a comment below with where and what you teach, and I’ll DM you a coupon.
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It's that time of year again 🎅 24 coding challenges and a chance to win a MacBook Air M2 on Christmas Eve 🎁
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Dear Twitter. I need your help spreading the word about our open course creator role at Scrimba 👩🏫
So please RT this tweet, and then I'll pick two lucky winners who'll get an annual Scrimba membership each 🙏
Winners will be announced tomorrow 🏆
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things that should be forbidden in programming tutorials:
* todo lists
* lorem ipsum text
* projects without any design
* artificial code examples (e.g. let myNumber = 123)
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We're launching a massive AI Engineer course on
@scrimba
next month. So if you're interested in learning how to build AI-powered apps using JavaScript, please join the waitlist here:
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I hate
@paypal
.
First, they charge us 6-7% in transaction fees.
Then, they require a 3% fee to transfer the cash to our bank account. That's 9-10% in total.
So of our $174k in gross revenue, they get over $16k.
"PayPal Mafia" suddenly gets a new meaning.
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Love seeing these stories!
In February 2022, Gresham from South Africa joined
@scrimba
. He started working through our courses, and also joined our bootcamp.
In February 2023, he got a job as a software developer for a German adtech company.
Very well done, Gresham 👏
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Two days until we launch a free course on prompt engineering for devs!
It'll be 4 hours long and contain the following value-packed sections:
1️⃣ Prompt Engineering Basics
2️⃣ AI-assisted Coding
3️⃣ Using AI for Job Search
Who's looking forward to this one?!
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3 days left until we launch our free 7-hour
#JavaScript
course for beginners on
@scrimba
! 🚀
In today's sneak peek, you are to combine loops, template strings, and innerHTML in order to render out three images on the page.
#100DaysOfCode
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Tons of people around the world want to become software developers but lack the money to get a good education.
So we've created a scholarship program where we give away free
@scrimba
subscriptions every month.
Apply here👇
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Exactly one year ago we launched our very first Scrimba course, and today we launched number 17! Woho!
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However, JavaScript isn't just used for websites.
It's also used to build:
- servers (Netflix, PayPal, LinkedIn)
- games (Candy Crush Saga)
- mobile apps (Uber, Facebook)
- and even rockets (SpaceX)
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I know this because I did it myself.
I spent 5 months learning it in 2015 and got the same starting salary as my friend who had just completed 6 years at medical school.
You can read more about that story here 👇
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I’ve always disliked seeing «I wish you good luck» at the end of rejection emails.
So as we’re rejecting job candidates at Scrimba, I’ve changed it to «don’t hesitate to reach out of there’s anything I can help you with».
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It took us nine months to grow from zero to 5K users. And now, three months later, we just crossed 30K. Thanks a lot to all of you who've taken our courses and helped us spread them. This wouldn't have been possible without you!
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At this point, it is obvious that all web apps eventually will be integrated with AI. This leaves a huge backlog of work for web devs, as they are the ones who'll build all of this.
Put simply, the demand for coders who know their way around AI will go through the roof 📈
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Have started listening white noise instead of music when I work. My productivity has gone up but my soul is slowly dying 🙃
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The React bootcamp course if finally live! Check it out, and please retweet if you think any of your followers might be interested in it! 🙏
Course launch: The React Bootcamp - Become a Professional React Developer 🚀
This massive course by
@bobziroll
will teach you advanced React through a mix of lectures and coding challenges.
Retweets highly appreciated 🙏
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Just to make it clear, this example is 100% local. It downloads the entire AI model (~40MB) to the browser, and then runs it using your device's computing power.
No need to create an account and get an API key from a third party.
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Very proud that
@scrimba
provides the underlying curriculum for
@CodeWeekend
's free coding bootcamp in Afghanistan.
Hats off to
@jamshidhashimi
and his team for doing such amazing work for their country 👏
The Code Must Go On: An Afghan Coding Bootcamp Becomes a Lifeline Under Taliban Rule
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Our Prompt Engineering course is live 🚀
It'll teach you how to use AI to 👇
* code faster
* write unit tests
* document your code
* explore external APIs
* solve DS&A challenges
* practice job interviews
* study web development
All for the total cost of zero dollars! 🤑
Question: Will AI take my tech job? 🤔
Answer: No, but someone who knows how to use AI might!
Luckily, Scrimba has dropped a brand new free course to turn YOU into an AI maestro: Prompt Engineering for Web Developers!
Retweet THIS to get a chance to win a year of Scrimba Pro!
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