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I’m Eddy Chung, Course Director at Rising Block
I’ve spent my career working as a professional software developer. I’ve worked in Silicon Valley and Seattle at companies like Amazon and Redfin.
I know exactly what it takes to go from writing your first line of code to landing your first job.
Kevin Lau
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Ryan WongSoftware Engineer at Amazon, Google
The Full Curriculum
The Fundamentals
- Curriculum Overview
- Python 3 vs Python 2
- Introduction FAQs
- Command-Line & Terminal
- Terminal For Mac & Linux
- Command Line For Windows
- Python Overview & Installation
- Python Environments
- Running Python Code
- Git & GitHub
- Data Types & Structures
- Numbers
- Variables
- Strings
- String Indexing & Slicing
- String Properties
- Printing Strings
- Lists
- Dictionaries
- Tuples
- Sets
- Booleans
- Comparison Operators
- Chained Comparison Operators
- If, Elif & Else Statements
- For Loop
- While Loop
- Range
- Enumerate & Zip
- In, Min, Max
- Random
- User Input
- List Comprehension
- Methods & Functions Documentation
- Functions
- Arguments & Keyword Arguments
- Map, Filter, Lambda Expressions
- Variable Scope
- Project Overview - Number Guessing Game
- Number Guessing Game Project Hints
- Milestone Project #1 Solution
- What is OOP?
- Class Constructors & Attributes
- Class Attributes & Methods
- Inheritance
- Special Methods (aka Magic or Dunder)
- Pip & PyPi
- Creating Modules & Packages
- __main__ & __name__
- Handling Errors & Exceptions
- Project Overview - War Game
- Card & Deck Classes
- War Card Game Solution
- Project Overview - Blackjack Game
- Blackjack Hints & Solution
- Other Projects
Job Hunt
- Work Experience Overview
- Resume Writing
- GitHub
- Cold Email / Messaging
- Applying Online
Interviewing
- Interview Loop Overview
- Interview Prep Timeline
- Behavioral Question Overview
- Why Technical Interviews Exist
- Phone Screens
- Take-Home Projects
- On-Site Interviews
- Big-O
- Technical Resources & Practice