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S5E5: How to Come up with Coding Projects to Build

39 min • 6 november 2018

Interview Cake founder Parker Phinney discusses why you should build programming projects, how to come up with ideas, and how to use your projects to land a job in tech.

See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website.

Thank you to this episode’s sponsors:

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S5E14: How to Get Started as a Freelance Developer

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S5E3: How to Decide What Programming Languages to Learn

S5E2: 14 Different Tech Careers That Could Be Your Next Job

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S4E21: The End of Season 4

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