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Developing Yourself While Teaching Others with Ali Spittel
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Developing Yourself While Teaching Others with Ali Spittel

Joel and Ali Spittel discuss her time in a teaching position, code challenges, blogging platforms, teaching beginners, and getting involved in local dev communities.

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February 22, 201928m 9s

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Show Notes

Today we are joined by Ali Spittel, a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at dev.to, who speaks with us about:

  • The skills she gained from a developer teaching job
  • How she kept up on her coding skills without writting production code by doing daily code challenges
  • Why she began to blog and how she made a habit out of it
  • Blogging on a platform vs having your own website
  • Using visual feedback to teach beginners to code
  • Involving herself in the local developer community

Transcript

"Developing Yourself While Teaching Others - with Ali Spittel" Transcript

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Topics

codingteachingdevelopmentblogginglearning