Brian Holt – Some Hard Earned Lessons… – Angular.JS

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industry-success-presentation

Presentation on being successful in the industry. Also touches on AngularJS

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Brian Holt

Some Background

  • College Dropout
  • Full Stack Intern @ Nu Skin Enterprises
  • Junior Back-End Developer @ KSL
  • Senior Front-End Developer @ Needle
  • Taught Null to Node
  • Director of redditgifts Front-End Development @ reddit

Some Hard Earned Lessons…

Great code is better than perfect code.

Be an eternal student.

Experience is more important than salary.

Networking is nearly as important in our industry as it is in business.

Be a good citizen of the Internet. Contribute to open source.

Use open source frameworks and libraries. Report bugs. Correct and add documentation. Fix the bugs. Open source your own components. Make feature contributions.

Recruiters are typically not a good vector to gainful employment.

Breadth is great. Depth is better.

Angular.JS

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Why Angular.JS (or any MV* Framework)

  • Declarative (as opposed to imperative) in nature
  • While a steep learning curve, once learned will ultimately save you time and lines of code.
  • There are some pretty hefty algorithms under the hood of Angular.JS. If that's the case, I want the PhDs at Google writing them, not me.