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Happy November! 🍂

A new month means new goals, new mindset, new focus, new intentions, and new results.

There are a LOT of awesome things to cover for this week, so let's get into it...

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TL;DR 📝

💥 New Hires: Ivan and Ben!

💥 Code Review of the Week: Felicity!

💥 I Built This: Yooshi - Designed and developed by Leo.

💥 Fab Resource: Beginner’s Guide to Web Animation​

💥 Ask an Expert: Scrimba Designer Roku joins us to share his top tips for developers.

💥 Podcast: Rian Errity talks about what universities could learn from bootcamps and online platforms like Scrimba.

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Town Hall 🏫

We hold a public Town Hall event on Discord every Tuesday, in which we share successes from the community and answer your coding, career, and Scrimba questions!

Here’s a summary of this week’s discussion:

🤪🕰️ Time zone confusion… and to help developers with time zone confusion… Time APIs! ⏳Temporal and ⏳Luxon.​

❓Team question: What code learning resource has been impactful for you? Read everyone’s answers here!​

​#🔎code-reviews channel: We want as many people as possible to get code reviews while studying the Career Path. We encourage recorded code reviews, as this makes the learning experience 10x!

All recorded code reviews will also be entered into our Weekly Code Review competition, and could win a 6-month Scrimba Pro gift card! 🎉

Look out for the #🏫townhall Stage channel on Discord every Tuesday! 👀

🔗 Join the Scrimba Discord community here: http://scrimba.com/discord​

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Team Scrimba News ✨

This week, there are two new Scrimba Team Members!

Daniel is our new Design Lead and is currently working on the Scrimba progression UX!

Rafid is the latest addition to our teaching team. He has been working on new solo projects for Scrimba students. Here is his first one, it’s very cool!

To learn more about Rafid and his background, check out his About Me video here.

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I Built This 🛠️

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

Leo has an awesome project to share with us this week! He created this sushi restaurant site with React and has learned so much as a result.

One trick Leo learned is how to use global parameters in CSS, and call them with the var() method! This is helpful when you have a lot of styles that are consistent within your site and want to avoid hardcoding them into each use case.

Check out the live deployment here​

Curious about how he built this? Check out his repository here​

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Code Review of the Week 🏅

We love to see our community members engage with one another. One way we encourage this is to participate in Code Reviews! Code reviews provide valuable learning opportunities, and can give you an alternative view on how to solve problems.

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

To make this even more enticing, we are going to choose a “Code Review of the Week”. The winner will be announced at every town hall 🏠 meeting, and will get six months of Scrimba pro for free! 💫

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

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

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New Hires 🎉

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

Ivan has been hired as a React Native developer. His approach to the job hunt was local networking! Congratulations Ivan, and best of luck!

With the help of his uni degree and the Scrimba Career Path, Ben started a new career as a junior Software Engineer as of November 1st! His offer was sent two months after he had initially applied and completed a take-home assessment. This goes to show that persistence is key! 🗝️

The #i-got-hired channel on our Discord server also contains stories of good news from this week’s new hires - head on over there to read them all! 👀

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Fab Resource 📚

Animations can add more depth to your projects, and keep the user’s attention! 👀 However, coding them from scratch can be intimidating.

Chloe Hwang, a former Front-End Developer, has written a Beginner’s Guide to Web Animation to help us make the impossible POSSIBLE. 🪄

This three-part guide goes over animations using CSS, JS, and SVGs!

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Live Stream 💻

On November 16th, Scrimba Designer Roku joins us to share his top design, UI, and UX knowledge to help developers. We'll talk about:

🎨 UI and UX - what's the difference?

🎨 Common UI/UX mistakes

🎨 UI/UX easy wins

🎨 Should developers learn design?

🎨 Getting started with design

🎨 What designers wish developers knew

🎨 How to approach design

🎨 Design tools (Figma, Sketch, Lunacy, Penpot, Canva and more!)

🎨 How to find the tool to suit YOU

🙋 YOUR questions

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

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Scrimba Podcast 🎙️

Meet Rían Errity 🇮🇪! He’s a Scrimba student who started learning to code as a child. Today, he studies Computer Science and Language, a study program that marries his interest in linguistics with his passion for computing. 🤝 He has also recently completed an internship with Microsoft!

​In this interview, Rían talks about his love for computers, growing up with Linux, how he ended up choosing his study program (hint: there was YouTube involved), and whether he actually needs a CS degree. Alex and Rían discuss what self-taught developers might be missing out on compared to developers who are learning to code at a university and what universities could learn from bootcamps and online platforms like Scrimba. You’ll also hear all about Rían’s internship at Microsoft and learn about his journey from Dublin, where he was competing with 16.000 candidates 🤯, to former Skype offices in Tallinn, Estonia!

This episode is jam-packed with actionable advice, but it also brings you an exciting story brimming with enthusiasm!

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Meme of the week 🤡

Have a funny coding meme you want to share? Drop it into the #random channel in the Scrimba discord community for a chance to have it featured in a future issue of the Community Roundup!

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Wrap up 🐈‍⬛

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

Let’s give a warm welcome to two more new members of the Scrimba team! Introducing Fluffy and Noodle (AKA the Chuckle Brothers), the latest additions to the Leanne + Michael household!
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For those wondering, their feline ensemble now comprises:
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😼 Pumpkin: The Scrimba mascot, genius behind our Discord Pumpkin bot, washing basket obsessive, short on patience, loves losing collars.

😽 Kitty: Meows a lot, purrs even more, loves tummy rubs.

😻 Fluffy: Tiny, happy, loves his brother.

😸 Noodle: Adorable. Only distinguishable from Fluffy due to his thinner tail.

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Alana 🐾👩‍💻🎾

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Your Scrimba Roundup Team

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