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Hello ReaderHappy weekend! Somehow we just breezed past another week. But maybe that means we were locked in and working hard. Lots of new tech out in the wild this week, new AI models dropping left and right and some new Scrimba features too (wink wink). Let's dive right in. TL;DR◉ Platform Updates: New content on docs.scrimba.com! ◉ Scrimba News: Explainers are now within scrims + 2 more updates ◉ Student of the Week: Sohail completes the Backend Path! ◉ Poll of the Week: How many tabs is too many + last week’s results! Platform Updates
Scrimba Docs keep growing! Quick refresher in case you haven’t run into them yet: Scrimba Docs are free, bite-sized written guides to the fundamentals. This isn’t supposed to be a traditional docs site as we’ve added a bit of a twist to keep things light-hearted and fun but still informative and a proper supporting resource for your learning. Our new additions are live now:
Intro to React is in the works, so keep an eye out. Scrimba News
Quick catch-up if you missed it: We’ve recently beta launched “Explainers,” AI-narrated video guides that break down anything confusing into terms that make sense. Three new updates worth knowing about this week. It’s now inside scrims.This is the big one. The moment something stops making sense mid-lesson, you can ask for an Explainer right there and get back to the code a few seconds later. No tab-switching, no losing your place. A new “Professor” mode.A lot of you wanted Explainers to go deeper, so this option does exactly that. It builds your intuition from the ground up and leans on every visual aid it has, rather than just giving you the short version. Jupyter Notebook support.You can now upload a .ipynb file and get an Explainer walking through it. Handy if you’re working through data or ML notebooks and hit something that doesn’t make sense. All still free while it’s in beta! Worth a try even outside of code — people have made Explainers on everything from credit scores to Stoicism to even changing brakes on cars!!
Student of the Week
Sohail just wrapped the entire Backend Developer Path, all 943 lessons and 39+ hours of it. Node, Express, databases, auth, APIs, testing, architecture, the whole backend spread. Sohail’s already a full stack dev, and he went back through the fundamentals on purpose, not to check a box but to actually understand the thinking behind scalable, maintainable systems. In his words: “It’s important to keep strengthening the backend side, not just by building projects but also by understanding the concepts behind them.” Nice work, Sohail! Go build the bigger thing. Poll of the WeekThe people have spoken, and the people like a variable name that leaves nothing to the imagination. The most verbose, spells-it-all-out option won with 62.5%, no ambiguity, no guessing games. The single-letter minimalists and the “it mutated over fifteen revisions” crowd tied for a distant second. New question, and this one hits closer to home for most of us...
Meme of the Week
Every dev’s origin story. Wrap UpIt’s time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets !🐶🐱🐍🐟
Dressed for success! Thank you for reading, everyone! Have a lovely week, keep calm and Scrimba on.
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Hello Reader Happy weekend! Nothing in this edition is finished, and that's kind of the point. A launch that's still collecting votes. Docs meant to get updated as things change. A portfolio built by someone actively asking for feedback on it. Even the roadmap comes with a built in disclaimer: dates are estimates, not promises. Turns out "still in progress" isn't a phase you get through, it's just what building actually looks like. TL;DR ◉ Scrimba Explain: We’ve reached #4 on Product Hunt ◉...
We're live. Scrimba Explain is on Product Hunt right now. Hello Reader, And we're off! Scrimba Explain has just launched on Product Hunt. You may have seen us mention it over the past few weeks: Type a question, and you get an AI-narrated Explainer video back in seconds, either on its own or right inside a scrim when a lesson stops making sense. It's free during the beta. Today it goes in front of a much bigger audience, and the first few hours shape where we land. If you have a few minutes,...
Hello Reader, Building something that runs on your computer is the easy part. Turning it into a product other people can actually use, and keep using as you improve it, is called DevOps (short for "development operations"). Here's what you'll learn, explained: 🐳 Containers and Docker: An app that works on your computer might break on someone else's, because of differences in software versions or settings. Docker solves this by packaging your app with everything it needs into one...