How To Learn To Code From the Free Content on YouTube, With Jessica Chan

<p><strong>🎙 About the episode</strong></p><p><br><strong>Meet Jess Chan 🇺🇸!</strong> Jess's YouTube channel, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/thecodercoder">Coder Coder</a>, has almost 400,000 subscribers at the time of recording. She's a web developer turned educator, and when she's not teaching her subscribers JavaScript and CSS, she's working on her first <a href="https://coder-coder.com/responsive/">course</a>. This episode is about learning, YouTube, and learning on YouTube!</p><p>In this show, you'll learn how to evaluate a course and quickly decide if you can trust a YouTube tutorial. Jess and Alex talk about how YouTube evolved over the years and why it might be an underrated place to meet other developers. You'll hear about Jess's long and meandering road to coding and learn why it's okay if you don't become a full-time developer in just three months. Finally, Jess will reveal, once and for all, what's the best camera for YouTubers.  </p><p><strong>🔗 Connect with Jess</strong></p><ul> <li>📹 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/thecodercoder">YouTube</a> </li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/thecodercoder">🐦 Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://coder-coder.com">🌐  Website</a></li> <li>📸 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecodercoder/">Instagram</a> </li> </ul><p><strong>⏰ Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>On Coder Coder, and why Jess loves web development (and enjoys teaching it) (01:33)</li> <li>Why you should remember what's it like to be a beginner at something before teaching it (03:33)</li> <li>Can you teach problem-solving on YouTube? (04:55)</li> <li>How Jess went from Pre-Med to photography to becoming a developer and, finally, an educator (06:24)</li> <li>Why it's okay if you don't become a full-time developer in three months (07:51)</li> <li>On becoming a developer in the era before bootcamps (09:33)</li> <li>Can you judge the current state of the industry from YouTube comments? (12:41)</li> <li>How would Jess approach cracking her first coding interview today? (13:22)</li> <li>Why you s