The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.
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S12:E7 - What it looks like to be a frontend developer for 20 years (Crysfel Villa)
In this episode, we talk about how frontend development has changed over the past 20 years, and how to keep on learning new skills, with Crysfel Villa, Senior Software Engineer at InVision, and backend lead at Coding Coach. Crysfel talks about how he navigated his english language barrier learning to code 20 years ago, how putting himself out there through blogs and remote and on-site teaching led to the most opportunities, and how he ended up diving into being a backend lead, even with his primary experience being a frontend developer.
Show Links- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- InVision
- Coding Coach
- HTML
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- JavaScript
- C++
- C
- PHP
- Learning Ext JS 4
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- JSON
- Node.js
- Application programming interface (API)
- GraphQL
- Stack Overflow
- Object-oriented programming
- Functional programming
- webpack
Crysfel Villa is a senior software engineer at InVision, and backend lead at Coding Coach. He has over 20 years of experience with more than 9 years of working with JavaScript on a daily basis.