Ask an Expert: Q&A with Ania Kubow

🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses We chat to Scrimba teacher, developer and YouTuber Ania Kubow about her journey into coding. 🖥 Contents 🖥 0:00 - Introduction 3:27 - What will we cover today? 4:27 - How did you get into tech? 6:30 - What would you say is your biggest struggle when learning to code? 7:54 - How did you get your first job, and what was it like? 9:20 - Hot tips for anyone looking for their first job, or any job? 11:08 - Is there one thing, or more than one thing, that you wish you knew when you were learning to code? 12:50 - Do you code in your spare time / Is it important to work on side projects? 14:12 - How have you found the transition from in-office to working from home? 15:59 - Is it better to learn everything, or to specialize in one area? 18:00 - What’s your view on the Svelte framework? 19:10 - If you weren’t a developer, what would you be doing? 19:52 - How to join the Weekly Web Dev Challenge 21:12 - What was your inspiration behind the film database challenge? 22:15 - This week’s solutions 23:18 - Was there an API used for this one? [Ref. Solution#2] 28:41 - Opening the poll 29:25 - Ania shows future web dev challenge ideas 30:10 - Idea #1 : Converting your age to dog years 30:56 - Idea #2 : Love me, Love me not game 32:20 - Idea #3 : Falling stars challenge 33:44 - Idea #4 : Countdown to Christmas 35:33 - Taking a look at next week’s challenge 37:50 - Announcing the Weekly Web Dev Challenge winner 40:08 - Poll results for the next challenge 40:48 - Should we make a prediction? Are there more dog people or cat people? 41:34 - Closing remarks 💻Check out Scrimba’s interactive learning platform: Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/ 🌲 Linktree: https://scrimba.com/links/linktree 🐦Say hi on Twitter: Scrimba: https://twitter.com/scrimba Leanne: https://twitter.com/RybaLeanne Ania Kubow: https://twitter.com/ania_kubow