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Time for a new edition of the Scrimba Roundup! We have a ton more tips, tricks, and fun tidbits to share.

Let's go, shall we?

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TL;DR 📝

💥 New Hires: Rick, Cheng, El, and Darrell!

💥 Code Review of the Week: Natalia!

💥 I Built This: Mykalimba creates a Connect 4 clone!

💥 Fab Resource: 10 Super easy CSS Shapes for beginners​

💥 Podcast: Scrimba Student Trecia talks about why passion doesn’t mean you’ll be great at something - and how to recognize what you can actually be great at.

💥 Live Code Fun: Leanne and Michael code a JavaScript timeline.

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New Hires 🎉

Big congratulations to all the Scrimba students who’ve landed jobs this week! 🥳 🎉

Darrell has started work as a Software Engineer on the 1st of February. This a big change, as they used to work in sales. Darrell says Scrimba has played an important role although they are not yet through the career path.

It sounds like he has time to learn on the new job, which is awesome. It’s great when a company offers that!

Don't forget to check out our Scrimba student success page for more inspirational tales!

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Code Review of the Week 🏅

Anyone can create a code review in response to a project posted in the #🔎code-reviews channel, but only Pro members can request one.

This week’s Code Review of the Week is by Natalia! you can check it out here.

To learn how to submit a code review, check out this scrim by Instructor Guil Hernandez!

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I Built This 🛠️

Let’s highlight some of the work that our Scrimba community members have completed!

Community member Mykalimba has sought out to create a Connect 4 clone!

He says the incentive for working on this project was a discussion in the #general channel in the Scrimba Discord in mid-January. There were two opposing schools of thought: one was that React was absolutely necessary to create such an application, the other was that it was completely possible to achieve the same results in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

Mykalimba set out to demonstrate how the game could be built using plain HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Here are a few key takeways:

☑️ The project is built from scratch, with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript

☑️ The gameboard is built dynamically, using DOM manipulation techniques similar to what is taught in early modules of the Frontend Career Path course

☑️ For the gameplay scripting and implementation of CSS animations, he drew on his experience as a career game developer.

☑️ The current version does what he set out to accomplish, which is to demonstrate the ability of a vanilla CSS & JavaScript page to effectively animate game pieces in an application like this.

He hopes to iterate on this project in the future to include an improved UX/UI appearance, refactored game state code, the addition of an AI opponent, and adding the ability to play against a remote opponent!

In the meantime, check out the live deployment here!

What have you built this week? Share it with us in the 👷i-built-this channel!

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Fab Resource 📚

​In this post, Junaid talks about creating basic shapes in HTML & CSS. Many beginners face issues while working with CSS, so he has provided 10 CSS shapes that we can create easily!

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Scrimba Podcast 🎙️

Meet Trecia Kat 🇿🇦! Trecia is a new developer from South Africa who originally wanted to work in healthcare. She eventually decided to study IT, but she dropped out of college when it turned out that online resources were better! Today she’s a front-end developer. She got her feet wet in the world of Developer Advocacy, she beat her social anxiety, and she even spoke at a conference!

​In this episode, you’ll learn why passion doesn’t mean you’ll be great at something - and how to recognize what you can actually be great at. Trecia tells us how she learned to code, overcame her fear of interacting with people she doesn’t know, and landed her first developer job. Twitter was essential for Trecia’s journey - she will teach you how to use it to get out of your comfort zone and what Tech Twitter tropes to ignore. You will also hear about Trecia’s DevRel internship at Strapi and how she ended up speaking at a conference by trying not to speak at a conference.

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Meme of the week 🤡

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Live Code Fun 💜

Next week, Leanne and Michael will code a timeline using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. By the end of the stream, we'll have an interactive timeline which displays dates and allows the the user to expand, add, and delete the information.

They will look at:

🕰️ Rendering and styling the timeline

🕰️ Displaying and expanding information on the timeline

🕰️ Adding data

🕰️ Removing data

🔔Drop your email here to get a reminder when we go live on YouTube!

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Wrap up 🐈‍

It’s time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets!🐶🐱🐍🐟

Kamil's pup Kelly is livin’ the life on that beach!

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