Ideas for posts for Break In

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Brainstorm

Learning for Students

• How to Learn - Sophie
• How to ask questions (and why you should!) - Sophie
• How to Pair Program For Students - Antoin?
• Should You Attend Meetups?
• Why, Where and How to Give a Tech Talk
• There's So Much to Learn! Where Do I Start?? A Guide to Finding the Right Educational Fit At Various Stages - Sophie
• Imposter syndrome - Steven

Learning For Junior Devs

• How to Pair Program for Junior Devs - Sophie
• Communicating with Non-technical People - Kate?
• Should You Attend Meetups?
• How to Talk About Your (Buggy) Code/How to Ask for Help - Sophie, done
• Why, Where and How to Give a Tech Talk
• Imposter syndrome - Steven

Getting Your First Programming Job

• How to Resume
• Do I need personal site?
• Should You Attend Meetups?
• Interview guides: Whiteboarding?
• Interview guides: Pair programming for interviewees
• Interview guides: What questions should you ask your interviewer?
• Interview guides: How to Know What to Know for your Interview
• Interview guides: Interviewing From the Other Side: Dispatches from interviewer side of the table - Edwin
• Do I need a Portfolio of Side Projects

How To Level Up 

• ✅ How To Build a Side Project (And why you should)
• How to Keep Learning As an Junior Dev, Outside of Work
• Why, Where and How to Give a Tech Talk

Paths to Programming

• From To Programmer: An Interview with (series) - Antoin, Ali, Cindy, Frank, JT, Bei Mi

Feedback Forum

• People can submit projects, sites, portfolios, resumes for review and that feedback becomes an article

Weekly Themes

• Do subscribers votes on the theme of the upcoming edition?
• Ex- nailing your first interview, leveling up your skills on the side, facing a learning challenge.

Questions

• How to balance interactive/feedback content with editorial content
• Something like Quora? People can submit questions and the answers are posts

TO DO:

People to Ask for Things

• Imposter Syndrome: Steven
• Interview: Antoin
• Interview: Jim
• Interview: Edwin
• Interview: Cindy or Ali
• How to Pair Program for Students: Antoin
• How To Talk to Non-Techies: Kate
• Dispatches from the Other Side of the Interview Table: Edwin
• How to Learn - Sophie
• How to ask questions (and why you should!) - Sophie
• There's So Much to Learn! Where Do I Start?? A Guide to Finding the Right Educational Fit At Various Stages - Sophie
• Interview guides: Pair programming for interviewees
• Looking for a Job: Do I Need a Portfolio?

Weekly Theme Ideas

• How to break through a learning or coding block
  • ✅ rubber duck debugging
  • ✅ how to get unstuck
  • ✅ how to ask a question on stack overflow
• How to collaborate on code
  • ✅ What is Pair Programming?
  • ✅ Pair Programming for Interviewees
  • ✅ How to Ask a question to your team
• How to Get Started Learning
  • ✅ How to Learn to Learn to Code
  • ✅ Want to Be a Professional Dev? Build a Strong Foundation.
  • ✅ Build Your Learning Community
• Job Search Basics
  • ✅ How to write your first tech resume
  • ✅ How to Whiteboard: what, why/will you see it, strategies in the room, resources
  • Dispatches from the other side of the interview table
  • Or:
    • ✅ What to ask your interviewer
    • ✅ how to ace the take home challenge