Here are three links worth your time:

  1. Here are 515 free online programming courses that start this month (1 to 30 minute read)
  2. I needed a guitar teacher. So I turned my Alexa into one (5 minute read)
  3. My open source Instagram bot got me 2,500 real followers for $5 in server costs (12 minute read)

Bonus: The “this” keyword is one of the most confusing aspects of JavaScript. Here Beau explain how “this” works in detail (9 minute watch)

Thought of the day:

“Sometimes when I’m writing JavaScript I want to throw up my hands and say “this is bull****!” but I can never remember what “this” refers to.” — Ben Halpern

Funny of the day:

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Webcomic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Study group of the day:

freeCodeCamp Beijing

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Happy coding!

– Quincy Larson, teacher at freeCodeCamp

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