We talk to Christina Truong with more than 10 years in the web development industry, we talk about going to school for Psychology and how that ended up helping her with her career as a developer. How a 14 week program gave her a quick start in the industry and how she went from being a Junior Developer to a Tech Lead. Then we cover her experience with Ladies Learning Code as well as how her work at Agencies helped her grow her career.

We cover how to approach learning and when to pick up new technologies, how important soft skills are. We learn when she teaches her students about Stack Overflow. Then we get into her courses on Git, freelancing, Design systems and more.

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00:00 Intro
00:42 Starting with a Psychology degree
01:44 Learning from a 14 Week Program
02:38 Junior to Tech Lead
03:17 Public Speaking
04:23 Ladies Learning Code
05:36 Working at Agencies
07:03 How University Experience Helped
08:51 How To Approach Learning
13:09 Choosing Technology
15:30 You Don't Need the Latest
17:00 The Importance of Soft Skills
18:04 Focusing on Details
18:52 When to use Stack Overflow
21:03 When Should Someone Freelance?
23:36 When to Reach for Git's GUI app
25:17 CSS Design Systems
27:02 When to Use Utility First Frameworks?
31:24 Should Designers and Developers Learn to Pinch Hit?
33:07 CSS vs Sass
35:10 New Features in CSS
37:30 How to Find Christina

Toolbox Talks - Breaking Into Front End Development with Christina Truong

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