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Scrimba Community Hero Yin Chu: Be Consistent, Play the Long Game, and Help Others
🎙 About the episode
Meet Yin Chu Rijnaard 🇳🇱! Yin Chu is a new developer who landed a job offer after only seven months of learning to code! In the meantime, he also became a Scrimba Community Hero.
In this episode, Yin Chu shares his approach to learning to code, why he chose front-end development and some of the struggles he encountered along the way. He also talks about his involvement in the Scrimba Discord community and how he became our Community Hero. On Scrimba's Discord, you can award karma points to other users, and Yin is currently on top of the leaderboard. You'll learn more about online communities, their unexpected benefits, and Yin Chu's approach to helping other newbie developers online.
Plus: Alex shares Scrimba's origin story!
🔗 Connect with Yin Chu
- 👨🏻💼 LinkedIn
- 🌐 Website
- 👩🚀 GitHub
- 🤖 YinChuRijnaard#2266 on the Scrimba Discord
⏰ Timestamps
- Yin Chu got into coding by way of business school (01:27)
- Front-end development for visual learners (02:40)
- How Yin Chu learned to code while at work (04:11)
- Yin's approach to learning (05:11)
- Learning to code when English is not your first language (09:04)
- How to become a Scrimba community hero (11:39)
- A surprising benefit of being in Scrimba's Discord community (15:10)
- Why you should help people (16:20)
- Yin Chu's new job... and LinkedIn's Easy Apply (17:23)
- Good LinkedIn profile strategies (19:29)
- Yin Chu's interview process (21:24)
- You have to play the long game (24:50)
🧰 Resources mentioned
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